Step 0:

Take 3, intentional, deep breaths.

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

Do three of em.

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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.

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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.

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Unfortunately, withot knowing more about you and your situation, I can’t really say which three of those is the framework of a better approach, or if something entirely different would make more sense.

But for any of those… don’t kick yourself for … things you didn’t do or prepare fon the past, don’t expect to be able to suddenly just ‘solve’ this ‘problem.’

Beyond being terrible for your mental health and just aggrevating the panic spiral, trying to do those things is ineffective, not productive at even attempting to ‘solve’ the ‘problem’.

Break it down into bite sized chunks that are manageable, that each, on their own, put you in a generally better position than not doing them.

Don’t dive headfirst with crazy expensive shit, start with the basics, as if you were preparing for a 3 day emergency from like a tornado or flood or local/regional grid failure or earthquake or hurricane.

Yeah, nukes and war don’t play by all the same rules as those, but a lot of the basics are the same.

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Basic food and water supply, basic medkit, flashlight, hand crankable emergency radio, thermal/moon blanket, solid set of clothes, two sets of undies and socks, decent backpack, decent multipurpose knife, probably some all purpose gloves, solid shoes, solid, all purpose coat that you can either open up and air out, or stuff more layers underneath to stay warm… some means of starting a fire…

… these days probably a battery bank/solar charger for a phone… if you’re a lady or gonna be with one or some: tampons…

… make sure you’ve got important ids and documents somewhere secure and ready to go, if you need to go…

… definitely doesn’t hurt to have a couple hundred in cash, smallest bills as you can, just in case some electronic payment system goes down and you need to pay for something.

Pretty much most of that shit can fit into a normal backpack, and if you can put that together, you’re doing way better than being totally and completely unprepared.