I am having outrage week. Is it just me?

[KentuckyWoman]

Normally fairly calm but this week it is too much. All of it. I have had it.

A relative nurse in Texas can't wear scrubs to work because crazy. I vented big on the DU .. and thank you all for sharing the same happening all over.

Yesterday I was yelling at the TV when I saw people in Afganistan rushing the plane so desperate to get out. Most with nothing but the clothes on their back. Literal yelling at the TV.

Today I verbally tore some 40 something to shreds at Kroger for using the N word toward a cashier. Made an absolute scene. As in police came because I got so worked up.

Somewhere in my tirade I told the guy to just go join the Taliban if he thinks being so evil toward women is OK.

You don't know me but this is the opposite of regular me. I do stand up to things but I am normally measured about it.

Even in the small things. Irritation of dropping an ice cube or the remote that won't work or the phone ringing when I am on the pot. Normally not irritating but now yes.

4 years of the Don, and the rise of ugliest into the open, and the attack at the Capitol, and the sheer idiocy of too many regarding Covid. The toll of limiting face to face. Not enough hugs.

It has finally all congealed into a weird stress I cannot really explain.

It can't be just me.

[CurtEastPoint]

1. I'm teetering on the edge, too.

[nocoincidences]

2. Count me in.

I feel like I walk around soaked in gasoline just waiting for some little unsuspecting spark around me to set off the explosion.

[XanaDUer2]

3. It's not just you nt

[Deuxcents]

4. It's not just you, believe me

I had to turn off the tv b/c of the anti vaxxers n and anti maskers making this virus worse after a year n a half. Almost all men rushing the flights out of Afghanistan.. no wives, mothers,sisters?
My local school board caved to the most ridiculous bs about no mask requirements in school and on n on. I’m pissed. Exasperated. Hang on Kentucky Woman.. we’ll be just fine. And good on you for letting it all out on one who deserved it.

[Initech]

11. And these dipshits are protesting hospitals right where I live.

Fuck 'em.

[beaglelover]

5. You need to chill or you'll have a stroke.

[appalachiablue]

33. True, be careful- blood pressure, more..

[BootinUp]

6. its hard to enjoy anything. nt

[KarenS]

7. It's not just you,,,, It's all so huge and so sad and so wrong. n/t

[Phoenix61]

8. No, it's not just you. I think the whole "let's

be nice and try to understand them because we are all reasonable adults” trope has hit reality. We tried, repeatedly and we are done trying. They showed us who they are and now we believe them and are more them willing to treat them that way. However, that’s best done from an emotionally calm place. Meditation helps, good friends help, crying helps… whatever it takes to find that quiet place inside. And when then doesn’t work ripping some asshole a new one who desperately deserves it helps.

[Initech]

9. I'm about ready to destroy a few flat screens!

[Hekate]

10. It is not just you. All I've got is this: turn off the TV for a week or a month. Stay on DU, unless

…we are triggering you too. Explore all the hobby groups and special interest groups — photography is wonderful and backyard chickens were adorable when I last checked some years ago — all at DU. Anything but GD and LBN.

The reason why you and so many others are having a hard time regaining any sense of equilibrium is Donald Trump. He was toxic from the moment he descended the golden escalator until this very day. He spread poison every day, and it’s made a lot of us literally sick.

Please take care of yourself, please.

[betsuni]

12. Yes, outrage week.

Too many things. Hate the press coverage blaming Biden for Afghanistan. Yesterday got so upset I watched movies to calm down and found myself crying at anything sad or sappy. It felt good. Crying at fiction. Can't really do it for all these big horrible things.

I'm afraid nothing is going to change.

For midterm election, the message is going to be (from all directions): Look, Democrats had all the power for two years and didn't do anything. Border crisis, Afghanistan debacle, inflation, Covid, crime in the streets, didn't do enough to help people -- infrastructure only fixed potholes in those crime-ridden streets. Everything positive will be ignored. Don't vote for Democrats, they don't do enough.

Yes, give Republicans a chance! This after the four Trump years are fresh in our minds. Afghanistan brings back memories of the terrible Bush years. Undoing everything the Clinton administration did and ignoring terrorist warnings, lies, corruption, that color-coded terrorism chart, "we create our own reality," illegal surveillance, torture, senseless wars and death (don't show the coffins returning to the U.S., don't talk about civilian casualties!). It's insane.

[questionseverything]

20. We are so much better off than last year

Have lil faith

[betsuni]

36. Not the point.

Democrats are attacked from all sides.

[Bluethroughu]

13. Nope, not just you. I've had it with stupid. This IS a matter of life and death.

Patience gone now.

I will shame the idiots now, not just roll my eyes and walk away.

[BoomaofBandM]

14. I just thought I was being a crotchety old lady.

I am lucky to have a very supportive and calm husband. He told me its not me, it is them. You are not alone. And its not you, its them. The insanity of it all is boggling!

[SalviaBlue]

15. Me too.

[denbot]

16. Nope n/t

[Wounded Bear]

17. Understandable. Things be shit lately, TBS...

[cadoman]

18. It's not just you, everyone has been increasingly on edge for a while..

I had to cut off the TV and radio. My partner refuses for us to discuss current events (probably wisely so).

[maxsolomon]

19. Being on edge is my new normal.

Hang in there; try not to have the cops called on you.

[KS Toronado]

21. Have some hugs.....free of charge

[MustLoveBeagles]

22. No it's not just you

I've had my moments over the last 1 1/2 years too. Take a break from the news. Watch movies and tv shows you like. That helps me.

[spanone]

23. it's not just you.

[Mr.Bill]

24. If you don't have one already,

you need a puppy. Or two. Mine help keep me sane.

[AllaN01Bear]

25. what is to keep me from detonating , im very close , however i have afib to worry about . calm.

[Rhiannon12866]

26. It's not just you

I've been unusually short tempered lately. Depressed, too. Sometimes, it's just too much.

[marble falls]

39. I was worried it was only me. I've never been angry like this before.

[Warpy]

27. Well, if you've had Covid, especially long haul Covid, you've got a ready excuse

Sympathetic activation: a potential link between comorbidities and COVID-19

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32779891/

I'm not posting an excerpt because heavy Medicalese, but basically the sympathetic nervous system is the fight-or-flight response, and they're finding it is more easily triggered in some Covid survivors, especially long haulers. No word on how long it lasts.

It's what I'm running with if I let fly at some idiot, anyway.

[Traildogbob]

28. I feel ya.

West is on fire, two small towns here in WNC 2.5 miles apart are just now under water, raging River Pigeon, with crest wave still to come. Record heights, higher than historic 2004 floods. I’m thinking 2020 is calling dating, “Ya miss me yet?” Last 5 Happy New Years with hoping this one will change, well, each progressively worse. And Trump at the middle of em all. Not how I dreamed retirement would be. Never hated anything as much as I hate trump and all his “ism”. Never knew I could feel this much hate.

[Pepsidog]

29. I'm on outrage break and binge watching Mountain Men and reading DU occasionally.

[orleans]

30. i'm pretty much of a bitch all the time (in my head)

but make that attempt to be cordial, friendly, personable when playing with others

but lately? i've got more of a bitch attitude that is seeping out

essentially i have become more intolerant of people's willful ignorance, stupidity, and selfishness (and it mostly revolves around covid)

[Tumbulu]

31. It is not just you- I am positively crazy furious

And I send you virtual hugs.

I think that being nice to these people is the mistake. They need to be blasted with the anger that they have engendered in good people’s hearts.

[marble falls]

38. Relax your mind ...

[nancy1942]

34. Me too.

I've just about reached my breaking point. Weird stress defines my feelings perfectly; also a feeling of impending doom that never goes away. I dread waking up in the morning because I know it'll be just another long day of some sort of god-awful disaster. Feel like I'm stuck in a nightmare and I can't wake up.

[calimary]

35. Sounds like you need a good walk. In a quiet, pretty park or something.

I exorcised a few demons today by some vigorous gardening. Really worked the ol’ muscles. Especially a small strip of ground that’s really hardened and loaded with string roots. Huge workout to even begin to break it down so I can plant some irises there. (Or would the proper plural be pronounced “I-rye”?)

Really took my mind off all the troublesome news. Needed it! I don’t get too many free days anymore, even as an old retired gal. Highly recommended, that gardening stuff. Or planting some pots on the deck or front stoop or in a sunny window?

Gardening and making things are good little escapes. Fraternizing with green leafy things can be quite restorative. Plus you’re doing something constructive, and maybe even decorative. Frivolous is even better, though. Sounds like you need a little something to break the blues and make you laugh.

Just a few silly ideas. I wish I could read you some jokes from this old book of my late dad’s: “Milton Berle’s Private Joke File.” Some real stinkers in there. Good stinkers.

Here’s a hug, too. These are pretty rough times.

[Vinca]

37. I know exactly what you mean and I wish I had a solution beyond turning off the TV and

doing whatever makes you chill out. The past week or so I had gone in another direction. Suddenly, with the Delta variant now showing up for Covid Part II - I felt a sense of overwhelming depression. I would have been happy to curl up on the bed and stay there in a ball, but I tried to go about business as usual. I spent a few days on the verge of tears. I upped my dosage of Vitamin D a few days ago and yesterday I started to feel like myself again. Now that I'm able to coherently (I think) rant, I know I'm getting back to my normal self be that good or bad. I'm going to try to look at the smaller picture rather than the bigger picture. We can't save the world. We can't cure dumb. All we can do is take care of ourselves and those we care about. (Plan B: Ben & Jerry's.)

[themaguffin]

40. I'm furious right now.

[alittlelark]

41. I did something similar with an open carry dickweed

It was a few months ago at a convenience store/ gas station on a reservation. I saw the 30 something in front of me in line had a gun belt on.

I have no idea WHY - but I was overcome with outrage. I regularly go to this store and had Never seen a gun on anyone other than tribal law enforcement officers. There is even a large sign saying ‘no firearms’ on the door.

I smilingly asked him what kind of gun it was - I didn’t allow him to get 2 syllables out before I asked him how emotionally damaged he is, or whether he was overcompensating for inadequate body parts… I was brutally insulting in a conversational tone. I was smiling, insulting and making eye contact with other customers.

Other customers and the cashier noticed what was going on. The cashier told him guns were not allowed - he loudly started into 2nd amendment BS but fortunately none of the 10-13 ppl in the store had similar opinions - others started commenting.

This Is Disturbing To Me - I felt happy and bolstered as I spoke to him

He ended up leaving looking like a 4 year old caught doing something bad, he even tripped in the parking lot. His truck had Texas plates.

I share this because I also have experiencing a ‘Snapped’ moment. I had no intent to say what I said and it was though I had no control. I had hit a breaking point. I still feel bad about it because he turned from a gun toting macho man into a toddler due to some deeply insulting and brutal things I said. I should not have been as brutal as I was - and the fact that I did it in a friendly voice freaks me out even more.

I still do not fully understand what happened to me. It disturbs me. The past 5 years have been so dark - I almost wish I was one of those ppl that pay no attn to the REAL world and live off the fantasies of Facebook or entertainment media. It sux being someone who intellectually has no choice but to CARE.

I have a red bumper sticker “Make Racism Wrong Again” and have had many compliments-but I have also been cut off by big trucks and a few normal cars in a way that I have not experienced previously.

Ppl are experiencing REAL anxiety. We are at a dangerous point in our history.

[Maraya1969]

42. I don't understand the scrubs thing. What I found looking it up was some people

are afraid that people in scrubs can be carrying Covid around on their bodies. Is that it or is it something else?

[mnhtnbb]

43. Not just you.

I can barely watch any TV news anymore.

I don't know why in hell that traitorous sack of orange $hit isn't in jail awaiting trial for conspiring to foment a coup d'etat.

I am SICK SICK SICK of smug, stupid, self-righteous don't give a $hit about anyone else Covidiots who won't vaxx or mask up in public.

Watching the thousands of people attempting to flee Afghanistan is heartbreaking. Hearing about women and journalists who are stuck there with little chance of getting out is depressing.

Thinking about all the money and lives wasted over the last 20 years in Afghanistan is depressing.

Hearing the stories of record breaking heat all over the world is depressing. Al Gore was hollering about climate change to anyone who would listen 20 years ago. Nobody gave a $hit, because GREED and $$$$$ for Republicans.

I am convinced the world would be a better place with about 50 million less American Republicans. So, go ahead, don't vaxx and don't mask and just die, ok? But don't take anyone but your goddamn fellow Trump loving fascist a$$holes with you. The rest of us would like to live out our lives peacefully, sharing and preserving this beautiful world with others who appreciate it.