I'm So Upset I can not sleep

[berni_mccoy]

I feel helpless...

Donating $ and blood... doesn't seem like enough.

[Not_Giving_Up]

1. I've hardly slept all week

My TV has not moved from CNN for days. When the storm was hitting, I was going through all of the channels, but for coverage of the aftermath and nightmare fuckups, it's been all CNN.

[steve2470]

2. I'm with you. Horrible images nt

[KyndCulture]

3. I can't sleep either. I just tossed and turned.

I can't get the images out of my head.

[Be Brave]

4. Same here. Been sleepless and glued to the news

since all hell broke loose.

[Gloria]

5. I know, I was up last night and I think it will be the same tonight..

I'm in despair for the people still trapped in NO and in a state of complete anger at Bush and the FUCKING DEMOCRATS THANKING BUSH for NOTHING!

I am just feeling so down about this country.

[Tsiyu]

6. I really didn't think I could hurt so much any more

** and his evil minions find new ways every day to break my heart.

[nonconformist]

7. I've hardly slept in days.

I really need to. I'm really emotional and dazed at this point. I just can't.

I feel fucking guilty EATING right now.

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. Same here

I am exhausted. It is the first week of school. Normally I am in bed by 10:00 this week. But the last two nights, I have gotten out of bed at 2 am to turn on the TV and watch this tragedy. I wish there was something I could do. This is so horrific.

[progressivebydesign]

9. You need to turn off the tv and get some sleep.

I have purposely avoided hours of tv during all this. I read about the disaster, I've seen some horrificly disturbing images when I did watch. We can do what we can do through donating, but watching hours of human suffering is doing nothing positive. we don't need to see the images over and over, it's etched in our minds. It makes us feel helpless and angry. Go to sleep.. and wake up tomorrow with a plan to help and to change the poverty in America, which is the catalyst for the human suffering we're witnessing.

[berni_mccoy]

12. Thank you.

A stiff drink is helping too...

[nonconformist]

15. I've whipped out the weed.

Yes, yes I have. I don't drink and I have to do something to calm my nerves.

[tedoll78]

10. Me neither.

Though most of my family's houses are flooded/destroyed, they're all alive and in Lafayette. I decided to take advantage of my insomnia & drove to Houston last night to bring them a nice generator for when Dad puts a FEMA trailer on his empty acre across Lake Pontchartrain.

I haven't slept much at all. It's been a lot of crying and fuming, and then back to stunned silence as I listen to CNN in the background of DU. I don't know how long I can take this.

[WiseButAngrySara]

18. Oh it must be so tough for you! I lived in NOLA for one year, and grew

to love the city. This was in 1994. I was terrified every time there was a heavy rainfall because I had seen the ancient pumps, and lived on Canal Blvd. just blocks from Lake Ponchartrain. (Lakeside?) I have been awake every night with the TV on since Sunday, and I've not done that since 9/11. And 9/11 was the first time I've ever slept with the TV on! Now I'm at it again. I'm glad your family is alive!

[tedoll78]

20. I'm thankful that they're all okay. But still distraught.

(thanks!)

As far as having the TV on constantly.. me too.

[Kurt Remarque]

11. it's the most incompetent administration ever

no wonder you can't sleep

[Maru Kitteh]

13. Me either, I made a drink and took an OTC sleeping pill

and I still feel like a trucker on crack.

It's too much.

[Sugarbleus]

14. I'm upset too... not getting much sleep either..

I've been writing to media outlets, my Senator and next I'll send a scathing letter to the "Prez of destruction" next. FEMA, RED CROSS, HOMELAND SECURITY and any other fucked up orgs will hear from me very soon too.

I think that people from surrounding communities and/or states should have gone in with their own vehicles to help with water, ice, food whatever...Could caravan with others for protection. At least open their homes to a couple people...

I don't understand the layout of N.O. The east side of the canal that broke is under water but the west side is dry. Why didn't rescuers set up on the dry side and get people outta the water and sheltered and fed until they could move them to various locations elsewhere?

[HEAVYHEART]

16. I'm with you.

I can't sleep either. :cry:

[silverojo]

17. I'd like to help, too, but...

...thanks to Bushitler's administration, I'm too sick to donate blood and too broke to donate money. All I can do is sit here, alternating between being stunned and bursting into tears. 9/11 was bad enough, but this is just f*cking rock bottom...esp. reading the godawful things the FreakRepublic's denizens are spewing. I don't even want to think what Man Coulter's next column will say....

[expatriate]

19. Haven't slept in days either.

AT this point, I'm going to have to, I've gotten so emotional and so unable to think straight that I'm completely ineffective in trying to find out anything about my son. Exhaustion might just do it. My eyes feel like they've been burned dry.

Tomorrow is Saturday where I am. At least I don't have to try to function normally.

[slampoet]

22. I haven't slept more than a few hours all week

My girlfriend is a cajun/creole with family all over there.

[hiaasenrocks]

21. I'm with you.

It's after 2am here, and I should be in bed. But I cannot sleep well knowing that thousands of my fellow human beings, in my country, not all that far from here, are wandering aimlessly toward death.

It's infuriating.

[spiderpig]

23. You're not alone!!!

words fail. :banghead:

[mottledsoul]

24. Fellow Insomniac Here

I'm thinking I may do the sleeping pill with tequila thing here shortly. I'll never get to sleep without some kind of drug.

It's just awful. I feel like my heart has been ripped out of my chest and stomped on. I feel angry, sad, frustrated, violent, sympathetic. Too many emotions swimming around my brain. No wonder I can't sleep.

[annagull]

25. family in mobile still have not talked to, no so bad there but

still is a scary thing, Seeing what is happening to the beautiful city of New Orleans, where I lived and fell in love with my husband, is killing me. Most of the friends I could get in touch with got out, but now what? Others, I am looking for on news reports and craig's list.

[kestrel91316]

26. I planned to watch Dateline on NBC about Katrina, so I braced

myself with a good stiff drink. I needed it. Now at least I might be able to sleep.

The dead people were the worst. Except for the crying people. Oh, and especially the crying children and babies.

It's a BAD, BAD scene there.