I just found an excellent text, a reply posted by someone to a #Lemmy thread and I must share it as it approaches a naïve question _"I am so scared of #nuclear #war, how do I cope with it?"_.

"Step 0:

Take 3, intentional, deep breaths.

Inhale for 5 seconds, hold for 5 seconds, slowly exhale for seconds.

Do three of em.

Step 1:

Accept that one day, maybe soon, maybe in the fairly distant future:

You Will Die.

No avoiding it. None of us make it out of here alive.

… really try to actually come to grips with that.

There’s no reward or punishment at the end, its not a judged competition… it just stops, everything goes away, and you go away.

Game over.

Its not fair or unfair. It just is.

Step 2:

Understand that while you are amongst the realm of the living, some things are within your control and others are not, and precisely which things land in which of those categories could change a good deal depending on who exactly you are, what you do or don’t have access to, where exactly you are, etc.

Maybe it makes sense for you to try and build up a bit of an emergency food and water supply, a method of generating power, staying warm or cool, etc, in case shit hits the fan.

Maybe it makes more sense to establish some kind of bug out plan and procedure.

Maybe, it just makes the most sense to just accept that if you’re in a very important / very dense area…well, one day, you might just evaporate."

There's way more, but I'm sharing just the practical steps to "cope" with whatever's going on in this cosmos.

**tl;dr:** breathe, shout out loud "I'll die, maybe I'm even gonna die this afternoon after a giant mushroom pops up in the sky with some military AI going rogue, YAY!" (not being ironic), and accept you only got so much under your control (if any).

I MUST emphasize: "You/I WILL Die. No avoiding it. None of us make it out of here alive". Nothing you can do but to ACCEPT it. The Reaperess WILL kiss and (also must be emphasized) your #crypto, #God, #guns, #army and #NAP won't help you, fellow #Nostr right-wingers... (Human rights, State, even some proletariat dictatorship and "strong leaders" won't help you either, fellow #Fediverse left-wingers)