Why is no one talking about the situation in the middle east and our mental health?

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Because clients dont pay for you to sit around and talk about the Middle East and your mental health is your issue to handle on your own time.

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Having a drink is great advice for anyone who isn’t a child or an alcoholic.

Because this is just life. Things are obviously a little more crazy than usual because of the tangerine man, but things are always going sideways all over the world.

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How, exactly, is it affecting your mental health?

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SC please just get yourself straight into therapy. You’ll be able to talk about in those sessions all you want.

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People on here think consulting work matters. This is the wrong room OP

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Haha right C1? I agree. Empathy is also really hard to explain to those that don’t have it, or have lost it, traded it away. Nothing wrong with empathizing with those you’ve never met. Wish I had more of it myself

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Are you in Middle East ?

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No but they need an excuse to not work

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Because I am tired bud

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Well it’s going to make everything more expensive for the long term. But also, what are you going to do about it? People literally elected a president who promised them fifteen hundred times he was never going to go to war with Iran, and within a year he does the very thing he said he’ll never do.

Democracy is broken, and we are just fighting over which puppet we want to put into the White House.

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Because some of us wants one of them to end, we can deal with the surviving party.

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