Feeling impotent, frustrated, enraged, and

[cilla4progress]

depressed.

Any suggestions?

[leftynyc]

1. Get lost in a good book

Turn off your phone (unless that's impossible), turn off the tube and disengage.

[jrthin]

3. I concur with your advice. This is a stressful time

For so many of us. It seems unbearable.

[leftynyc]

4. It seems particularly bad

when I wake in the mornings and remember it's not a nightmare, it's really happening. I've been reading A LOT.

[LuckyCharms]

2. A long walk in the park or in the woods.

that is what I do, and it helps a lot.

Also, know that there are millions who feel like you do. Hang in there.

[awesomerwb1]

5. Stop watching the news for a day or two.

Take a little break from DU.

If you can afford it, donate a little to PR funds. They're the ones in most need right now.

If you can afford it, start saving for $ contributions to help us take back our country in 2018.

If you can, maybe do some volunteer work. If you don't own a pet, adopt one!

Learn breathing exercises and how to meditate.

I'm afraid we haven't touched bottom yet, but please know that we will get through this, but we will have to work for it.

We'll be ok!

[Nay]

6. We are all there.

If you have an animal shelter nearby, go and devote some volunteer time to walking some dogs, socializing with the animals, and giving them some love. At the moment, I know it's hard to direct any love to humans who have caused the disaster of Trump, but animals are innocent of that. They will calm your soul.

[cilla4progress]

7. Agree

I have a 15 year old dog who needs me, 3 horses, and chickens.

Challenge right now is that it's cold and gray out, I have several days off work, and live far enough out in the country that interactions are few and far between. I'm broke right now, so, no $$ to travel.

Normally I can handle this shit, but it's accelerating at a "disgusting" pace and I just can't wait for the house of cards to fall.

Like when I have to pee and it's worse the closer I get to the toilet...

Hate to admit this but, with pot legal here, at least I can escape that way.

Also - I have quit FB, so that's one good thing.

[Shrike47]

8. Going where there are trees helps. So does something that engages hands and eyes.

Knitting can be soothing. Coloring also. It demands attention but is satisfying, for some reason. Pet a cat. Hang in there, it gets better.

[ck4829]

9. Unfortunately, 'turning off' is not an option for me. So I'll tell you what I have done and do.

Read Gene Sharp, many of his works are available for free.

http://www.aeinstein.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/FDTD.pdf

That's one full of tactics we can and should be using.

Read it and then take another step, find a group that is specifically here for the purpose of fighting back.

[KPN]

11. Hey, thanks for posting that ck!

I downloaded and will look into it.

[ck4829]

13. You're welcome, please spread it to others too

Trump, Republicans, the so-called Evangelicals, the "alt-right", Putinists, and the 'media' figures who push it being OK to want to scratch your eyes out rather than agree with a liberal... they all have the same necessary sources of power and vulnerabilities that any crackpot dictator has, and they can be resisted 100% with legal means.

This is the time to begin doing this.

[KPN]

14. Yep ... it's past time though. Will do.

Think I'll take a copy to my next local D Party Central Committee meeting to share.

[KPN]

10. Yeah, know that there are millions feeling exactly the same way for likely some

if not all, the same reasons.

It's hard. I try to stay busy but I can't help but check the news all the time -- and that don't help a bit. In my mind, ignoring the news is worse though.

I also have surfing and the ocean close by. Think I'll be doing that this afternoon. It's my church and my therapy in times of need. Where do you get your peace? Go there, do that ... often.

[Sunlei]

12. If you mean its the internet news spams, back away & no twitter/facebook. If its just DU?

block the top two story article posters who post trumps name in almost every headline- in DU breaking news & notice the difference on DU without the constant 'trump headlines'. I guarantee DU is much easier on the nerves and you just unblock the 'names' if you have to read trump tabloid crap.

It's the constant spam of trumps name that's bad for your health.

[GallopingGhost]

15. I'm right there with you.

I consider myself a mentally strong person, and not a pessimist, but the level of incompetence and stupidity and outright fascism is getting to me. I haven't before felt as disgusted and hopeless and angry as I do this morning.

I've been praying the Mueller investigation would be the answer, but I'm losing hope there, too. We hear nothing and nothing has happened. Talking heads say it could be years.

I hope I'm wrong.

[cilla4progress]

16. Appreciate the love, support and ideas

Going to pop in my copy of "Good Night and Good Luck" and bake a pie with pears from our tree. Then clean house (at least it's physical) and then head outside.

[dembotoz]

17. do one of those things you always sorta wanted to do but never got around to doing

for me i pulled out the old bread machine

it was sitting on a shelf in the basement for literally years.
i also sorta collect cookbooks so i have a bread machine book or 2 available

it has been fun experimenting

so far i can honestly say i make a mean cinnamon raisin
bread

i do a couple loaves a week

it makes me smile

[Nay]

18. Ooooh, "doing one of those things" . . .I've returned to a long-lost project of

learning Esperanto. I plan to attend a world Esperanto conference in Canada in the fall of 2018.

I certainly can't sit on the Internet all day. It's become boring in a way, when I'm not simply looking up things to use IRL - like a crochet pattern for shawls that I make for friends, or cute bullet journal pages to use in my own journal.

I've also been doing more gardening and house cleaning than usual to work off some energy and aggressive feelings. And to be able to sleep at night . . .