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[Serious] What keeps you sane in these troubling times?
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This book describes it well, I think, around page 32.
Tribe by Sebastian Junger
Basically, helping others keeps you sane.
I have a very well-honed core of self hate that's tuned to provide me endless empathy for everyone else.
Helping people keeps me alive sometimes.