HOPE FATIGUE AND HOW TO CURE IT
By Lesley Alderman
One of my patients showed up at her virtual psychotherapy session last week looking tired. She had always been ambitious and concerned about injustice. During this session, she sighed when talking about a meeting where her colleagues complained about unfair treatment. She said: “I don’t
know why they bother getting upset, when it feels like nothing matters.”
I was concerned by her disengagement. But then a colleague sounded similarly worn down. She had spent the pandemic helping her third and fourth graders with remote school while trying to keep her small business going. She
confided to me: “I haven’t followed the war in Ukraine at all, I simply don’t have the bandwidth.” To an unusual degree, people are weary...read more
