Media Links
Website: delvepsych.com
Instagram: @delvepsychchi
YouTube: youtube.com/@DelvePsych20
Substack: delvepsych.substack.com
Participants
Hosts: Ali McGarel, Adam Fominaya
Overview
· Episode 10 of Delve Podcast, hosted by Ally(therapist) and Adam (clinical director).
· Delve Psychotherapy offers individual, couples,group, and family therapy — see delvepsych.com and their Substack.
· Hosts aim to share helpful, healing ideas — notseeking fame — and encourage sharing the podcast.
· Main topic: Reddit user overwhelmed by globalcrises, anxiety, fear, and doomscrolling.
· Hosts validate the panic as a normal response tomodern stressors.
· Adam highlights long-term global progress inhealth and technology.
· Humans have a negativity bias — it’s easier tonotice danger than improvement.
· Psychological experience is internal; emotionslike fear and hopelessness are parts we can relate to.
· Key idea: “Be afraid and do things anyway.”Action doesn’t have to wait for relief.
· Rather than stopping bad habits, startvalue-driven behaviors aligned with GNVs (goals, needs, values).
· Positive psychology myths (“you should alwaysfeel good”) are unrealistic.
· Despair is seductive, but small, consistent actscan influence the world.
· Power isn’t zero — everyone holds a“17-billionth” of global impact.
· Avoid the savior complex — healing begins within(“put your mask on first”).
· “Do your dishes”: small acts (like volunteering)make collective change possible.
· Powerlessness feels real, but it’s largely a lie— we have agency.
· Ending quote: “The winds they do be blowing.” Wecan’t stop the chaos, but we choose how to respond.
· Temporary withdrawal is okay, but chronicshutdown may call for professional help.
References & Further Reading
· John Green, Vlog Brothers– referenced for theconcept of “the seduction of despair.”
· Zeynep Tufekci, sociologist – cited for herinsights on collective action and the metaphor of “doing the dishes.”
· Buddhist philosophy – invoked to highlight theidea that healing begins within.
· Positive psychology – critiqued for promotingunrealistic emotional expectations.
· Historical data – referenced by Adam tocontextualize modern anxiety (e.g., declines in child mortality, disease).
· Delve Psychotherapy Substack – hosts recommendtheir blog for further thought-provoking content.
