There’s a certain kind of person many of us have in our lives – the one who constantly sends you alarming articles, along with a comment to the effect of “we’re f**ked”.
They always know the latest awful happenings in the world and seem ready to tell everybody that nothing anyone does matters.
The name for these kinds of people? “Doomers.”
″‘Doomerism’ is a mindset that’s rooted in chronic pessimism and worst-case scenario thinking,” Chloë Bean, a licensed marriage and family therapist, told HuffPost. “It’s the belief that the future is bleak, things are only going to get worse and individual actions won’t matter. It tends to carry a sense of hopelessness, helplessness and emotional exhaustion.”
For “doomers,” there’s a pervasive sense that everything is bad. Read Entire Article
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