Riding the news rollercoaster ...
There is a REASON to "feel like you do" ...
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"I know how you feel: beat up, battened down, fetal, furious. But just remember, theres nothing wrong with you. Its not youits him.
Of course youre depressed. You know that the news is toxic to your spirit, and you admit youre addicted to it, but really, with all these nonstop horribles, who wouldnt be obsessed by political disaster porn? Even though the news leaves you feeling not informed and empowered, but helpless and fearful; even if your neocortex knows that Trumps game is to hijack your attention, and the medias game is to monetize it; still, your reptilian brain wont permit you to peel your eyes from the screen, wont let you stop refreshing your feed, keeps you texting and posting and tweeting and screaming, Can you effing believe this? Your news addiction feels no less compulsive than, but is the reciprocal of an opioid addiction. Youre hooked on pain.
It makes sense to be incensed. Youre enraged by the cowardice of Republican legislators whove put protecting their political skins above protecting the Constitution. Youre livid that Trumps pooh-poohing of political correctness has exempted racists, homophobes, misogynists, anti-Semites and other haters from being shunned and shamed. Youre infuriated by the toadies, fools, vipers and schmatta hucksters now wearing staff passes to the West Wing. Youre angry theres no accountability for Trumps blatant conflicts of interest, no punishment for stonewalling his tax returns, no penalty for his bullying, laziness, lying, and ignorance ...."
It's not YOU, it's HIM ...
Courage, friends.
http://www.alternet.org/right-wing/i-know-how-you-feel-beat-battened-down-fetal-furious-theres-nothing-wrong-you-its-him
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