
Where some people doom scroll, I doom plan. My reason being, is that I think that if I plan enough, I’ll be comforted by virtue of knowing that what I’m worried about will work out the way I planned. I think I can plan away the fear. This, however, is not the case.

I’m a social worker and the population I work with is the chronically homeless. This means they’ve been homeless for 5 years or longer. Before I worked with this population I viewed them mostly as lost causes. They seemed to me so mentally ill that there wasn’t anyway for them to come back. Or…