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This isn't satire, it's an actual Time Magazine web article titled ""11 ways to avoid spiraling on Inauguration Day."
Some of the suggestions are "forest bathing" and communal crying.
"On Monday, Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 47th President of the United States. For some, it’s a highly anticipated day of celebration. Others have been dreading it—and would happily finagle a deal with the universe to skip to some other day four years down the road instead.
Why so much distress after months of processing the outcome of this divisive election? Many people are probably catastrophizing, experts say, a cognitive distortion that involves fixating on the worst possible outcome and believing it’s bound to happen. The thinking goes like this: “‘Oh my God, if everything is going to have to be that way, and follow that thread, then we’re all going to die,’” says Emiliana Simon-Thomas, science director at the University of California at Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center.
Yet that’s not a helpful or productive way to pass Inauguration Day (and all the days that follow). “I'm very far from the kind of excessively optimistic person who just tries to put their head in the clouds and pretend it's not happening,” Simon-Thomas says. “But I do think it’s worth remembering that this is one moment—this is one four-year term, and things change both quickly and very slowly. That kind of perspective can diminish that sense of hopelessness.”
We asked experts to share their favorite science-backed suggestions for how to spend Inauguration Day if you happen to be dreading it...."
11 Things to Do on Inauguration Day That Are Great for Your Mental Health
Some of the suggestions are "forest bathing" and communal crying.
11 Things to Do on Inauguration Day That Are Great for Your Mental Health
"On Monday, Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 47th President of the United States. For some, it’s a highly anticipated day of celebration. Others have been dreading it—and would happily finagle a deal with the universe to skip to some other day four years down the road instead.
Why so much distress after months of processing the outcome of this divisive election? Many people are probably catastrophizing, experts say, a cognitive distortion that involves fixating on the worst possible outcome and believing it’s bound to happen. The thinking goes like this: “‘Oh my God, if everything is going to have to be that way, and follow that thread, then we’re all going to die,’” says Emiliana Simon-Thomas, science director at the University of California at Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center.
Yet that’s not a helpful or productive way to pass Inauguration Day (and all the days that follow). “I'm very far from the kind of excessively optimistic person who just tries to put their head in the clouds and pretend it's not happening,” Simon-Thomas says. “But I do think it’s worth remembering that this is one moment—this is one four-year term, and things change both quickly and very slowly. That kind of perspective can diminish that sense of hopelessness.”
We asked experts to share their favorite science-backed suggestions for how to spend Inauguration Day if you happen to be dreading it...."
11 Things to Do on Inauguration Day That Are Great for Your Mental Health
