Please consider delaying slightly when making reposts/crossposts.🤗
While it's useful in sharing this kind of info✊, it's also simutaneously unpleasant to see a wall of the same post from the same user in a short time span such as these duplicates
I can also vouch for cognitive behavioural therapy!
Side note: If I recall correctly I think I was introduced to it from one of eggplant.show's episodes (game dev podcast)
Now that I'm older I'm so so glad I decided to try it out because after a bad breakup in 2013 I almost ended myself. Besides saving my life it's helped me focus on making better relationships and overall enjoying life much more🌻
When I volunteered as a new mod starting last year, I saw some horrific csam posts that I can't forget, I just hope those who reported them have recieved some mental health support.
To cope, I hike to my local park, take edibles, try to do anything to keep me distracted but it's hard to forget. Even as I sit here freezing in my chair the ticking of my clock is a deafening reminder of the garbage I've seen. It doesn't help in that I'm an empath(I receive the pain of others) either so I just think about why these things happen and try to promote systems that prevent past mistakes from reoccurring.
A couple systems I'm aiming to improve is public education and mental health support. When people know how to better protect themselves and those most trustworthy nearest to them, the higher likelihood that atrocities like these can be prevented and stopped. That's the hope anyways. No guarantee it'll work.
I'd wager a guess and say that most used their carbon tax refund like I did which was pay bills/buy groceries