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When collapse anxiety drives unrealistic preparation fantasies

I find myself researching survival skills and homesteading but I live in a studio apartment and have never grown anything and it feels absurd.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The desire to control the uncontrollable creates elaborate fictions of preparedness that highlight your actual powerlessness.

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