Jemma Spake

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The Psychology of your 20s · 409. How to manage your anxiety about the future · 23 Apr 2026 podcast

It lets us actually set goals.

And again, this isn't about, this isn't only about you.

Like obviously we're talking about a global crisis.

or a community-wide sense of despair, like a global sense of like that things are going terribly.

And I know it sounds like I keep bringing it back to what you need and what you can do to make yourself feel better, but genuinely you cannot do anything for anybody else if you do not take care of yourself.

And part of taking care of yourself is taking care of others because, again, there's this cycle of agency that makes you feel like you are not just one small person that all the world's events are happening to.

You are part of a broader community.

You are not alone in this and you are experiencing this with other people by your side.

I felt like I got hit by a truck.

I thought, how could this happen to me?

I also think just having some good digital and online hygiene is incredibly important if you are having a lot of anxiety about the future.

Not just limiting how much terrible negative news that you are consuming, but just limiting how much online content you are engaging with full stop.

I don't know about you, but I just feel like my algorithm is so angry and terrible at the moment.

Even when it's not about the global news, like I just got into this stage with my algorithm.

I don't know, like we're having this relationship, but like my algorithm got to this point where everything it was showing me was like people fighting or people having arguments on the street or, you know, some kind of controversy or hot take video.

And genuinely, I remember having this moment where I was scrolling and I was like, I have not seen a positive piece of content in ages.

because this is the kind of stuff that gets engagement.

You know, if you are sitting on your phone constantly and that is what's being fed to you, you are not, of course, naturally going to feel good about the future because your entire mental environment is being consumed by negativity.

So when we talk about digital resilience, when we talk about digital hygiene, it's not just about avoiding the news.

It's about

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