Anyone else feeling depressed?

[entanglement]

The war, hurricane Katrina, hatred, poverty, deaths, suffering, gas crisis, cruelty, lies , Freepers, a smirking chimp, Pat Robertson... just TOO much for me

I've felt too bad to post, these past few days :(

Hope & pray everyone escapes Katrina's wrath :(

Best of luck to merh, I'm sorry to hear about her loss :(

[Faygo Kid]

1. You forgot the coming collapse of the economy.

It's OK. Rush says everything is great!

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

2. What happened to merh?

I didn't see a thread.

[mikita]

4. JimmyJazz posted

that Mehr and her family are safe, but lost everything.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

5. Oh no.

Thank God they're safe, but how devastating for them.

[Deja Q]

3. I'm ridding myself of my possessions...

But am keeping my parrot.

Should I actually get hitched (unlikely), I'll deal with it then.

[BikeWriter]

8. Hey, parrots are cool.

[AlienGirl]

36. Parrots are among the necessities of life

After the Great Collapse, you will be one of the few people left who has a parrot. This gives you a tremendous advantage, as this book shows.



Tucker

[BikeWriter]

6. Yep, depressed.

[Porcupine]

7. The merry go-round spins too fast for some of us...

I'm personally in a "stop the world, I want to get off" mode. It's the constant destruction of hope. You can't get ahead, you can't get love and you can't leave it alone without living on the streets.

Yap, I'm there.

[entanglement]

11. Stop the world, I wan't to get off is EXACTLY how I feel...n/t

[datasuspect]

9. yep

i'm snapping at people left and right in my non-online life.

[mikita]

10. yes, increasingly

over the last 5 years since the SCOTUS handed the country to PNAC. But lately, it's feeling worse. The thing that makes me laugh from time to time is a Tee-Shirt I have that says:

Masquerading as
a normal person
day after day is
exhausting.

Makes other people laugh, but they don't know it's true.

:hug:

[chaska]

12. Yep, I'm down with the pity party. Oh, woe is effin' me. :(

[Porcupine]

15. Look up COMPASSION. No, no not in the jackass dictionary...

in the normal one. Now read the definition a few times and imagine real hard that you know what it means.

[Lilith Velkor]

18. Don't waste your time...

The numbers of pissant motherfuckers who kick people when they are down are legion. They voted for Bush, and killed Jesus. Fuck 'em right in the ear.

[chaska]

19. Do I understand you think I'm joking?

I'm not.

[Lilith Velkor]

20. In that case

I didn't mean you in post 18.

[Porcupine]

22. It reads as mocking anothers pain. Intentional?

if not edit.

[BikeWriter]

21. :-(

[Lilith Velkor]

13. mmm-hmm

I've considered going insane again like I did last year, but I just don't have the energy. You're not alone in this. It'll pass, everything does. :hug:

[entanglement]

16. ...

:hug:

[Not_Giving_Up]

14. Definitely

I've been watching Katrina all day. My great aunt lives in Mississippi, and was riding it out. My grandmother was supposed to call me if she heard anything, but no news yet. This is my grandfather's only living sibling. She's outside of Jackson, and lives with her granddaughter and great grandson. I'm figuring phones might be out, or they might have left.

Such a change from Saturday, when I spent the whole day at Camp Casey. This is the first time I've been online sinec then, and I'm in the process of getting the pitures uploaded.

[BikeWriter]

23. Sweety, I didn't know you'd gone to Camp Casey....

I'm so glad you got to go.

[Not_Giving_Up]

24. Yep...I left home at 6 AM, got back at 11 PM

Took a friend and her two kids. It was truly awesome. Damn this dial-up! I wish my pictures would hurry up!

[BikeWriter]

27. I know you had to be worn out, but I'm sure you enjoyed it!

:-)

[Not_Giving_Up]

30. I was, and I did!

It was hotter than hell, as expected. I drank 8 bottles of water and never had to pee. My friend's son was running food and water to the people at the side of the road, and forgot that HE needed water too. He ended up in the medical tent, getting Ziploc bags of ice put on him. All was well though, and we made it home after driving through major rain and wind (nothing compared to Katrina, of course!).

[BikeWriter]

33. It sounds as if you had a wonderful day. I'm glad...

the youngster wasn't seriously overheated.

[Not_Giving_Up]

35. Yes, it was truly inspiring

The kiddo was fine, and we were proud of him for working so hard.

[BikeWriter]

38. No doubt in my mind. It's something he can brag about!

[Not_Giving_Up]

42. Come see! Come see!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4502754&mesg_id=4502754

[Chovexani]

17. Yeah

It's par for the course for me, but it's been especially bad the last few days.

I really ought to get some help or something but I have no insurance and can't afford it...

[Porcupine]

25. I'm thinking of going Dadaist. Just do something bizzarre

stand on a street corner with a sign saying "have money, need attention."

Maybe it's time to dress up as a pirate. Hmmmm. and go grocery shopping.

nothing happening here, just another pirate at WinCo.

Leave cryptic notes on peoples cars for other people that don't exist.
"Julie- pregnancy test is good. buy socks Adam."

It's not quite going crazy.

[Chovexani]

29. Oh man, I hear that

Sometimes I feel like doing that too.

[AlienGirl]

37. Me too! DADA IS NOT DEAD!

[elshiva]

40. DADA lives! DADA is home to stay!

[AlienGirl]

45. For you!

[elshiva]

63. Genius!

[Porcupine]

46. I'm touched. Now go out and confound strangers!!!

My best stunt was to break into some buddies house while they were gone and leave a couch in their otherwise bare living room.

It took them weeks to figure it out.

[elshiva]

26. Ditto on all that plus Been feeling suicidal lately

because unemployed. :hug: But thankful for both DU and my Church for a great community. :grouphug:

[BikeWriter]

28. Don't even think about it, Sweety. That sucks!

[elshiva]

31. Thanks, BikeWriter. It's just some Mental Health Issues.

Thanks for your concern. :patriot:

[BikeWriter]

32. I've got a truckload of those too, Sweety. I hope you're in counseling.

[elshiva]

34. Yep in counseling. Sorry about your issues.

:hug:

[BikeWriter]

39. Thank you, Dear. It's nothing I won't get over with time.

:hug:

[faithnotgreed]

49. ohhhhh elshiva

sending hugs and prayers for you (if thats ok)

glad to know you have a good church community
i know its not as simple as encouraging you not to take your own life but just in case please dont~~~

hang on tight i know its hard going but everything is temporary
everything

[alarimer]

41. The stress is almost too much to deal with

I am really pissed off ALL the time. At the state of the world, at assholes who drive their gas-guzzling behemoths and then whine about gas prices. I am thinking of writing a letter to the editor of the local paper blasting these people and the fact that this town is so bike-unfriendly that I am afraid of taking it to work.

[Porcupine]

48. Try a different track, direct non-confrontation.

Print up some leaflets saying something like: Thank you for supporting the War In Iraq by driving this massive gas guzzling behemoth.

Sign it: Coalition Provisional Authority and
Iraqi quisling government and
The Iraqi insurgency and Al Qaida

Your dollars make all this possible.

Leave them in the windows. Do not, however tempted, buy a can of spray glue and glue them to the left rear window.

[alarimer]

58. that's a good idea

Actually I see a couple of retirees out protesting in front of a restaurant on a busy street and I just may join them one of these days with sign like that.

[samplegirl]

43. it definitely

is a rich mans world right now

[AlienGirl]

44. It always has been

With enough perspective, it's easy to see that whenever times get tough, the crumbs stop falling from the rich people's tables...and rough times are the rule, not the exception.

Tucker

[Blue_Tires]

47. been depressed for a long time now

don't even know what non-depression feels like anymore

[faithnotgreed]

50. blue - sending you hugs

and warm thoughts
i cant imagine what depression is like

having a mets avatar cant help (andi say this as a life long mets fan - felix millan and all that)

do you have a support group or are in therapy of any kind
you dont have to answer that but i hope that you have something along this line

[hfojvt]

54. having a mets avatar can't help!!

:rofl: :rofl:

Sure, just compare yourself to the Royals and you will see what a great season you are having. Even Colorado can do that.

[AlienGirl]

51. Yes

Even though my life has been (objectively) going quite well, I just can't shake the blues. I see the psychiatrist tomorrow to see if we should try anything new on the med-go-round.

Tucker

[hfojvt]

55. I have very little faith in those pills

I think they often mess up people's heads as much as they help. Probably just the way I was brought up - my dad did not even like to take an aspirin (or tylenol). I probably self-medicate with sugar and caffeine and I think I have anger management issues. So it is time for me to clean my glass house. I hope you shake the blues with or without meds.

[khashka]

52. I've been crying all fucking day

Katrina Katrina Katrina....

I have family that were hit. I don't know if they are OK... I mean, I'm sure they are. But I've been trying to call and can't get through... (of course I can't).

And I know this is totally selfish... but New Orleans, the French Quarter - all that history that could be lost and can't be restored. I feel guilty even worrying about that...

The only good news I've heard all day is about merh - she and her family are safe. And that's great news even if they have to start over....

Khash.

[faithnotgreed]

61. khash

i just logged on so i wish i had been able to respond earlier

i want to check in and see how you are and your family too
and also sending you hugs

perhaps youve given an update somewhere else but when i saw your post i had to respond right away

much love friend

[leftofthedial]

53. only for the past 5 years

or so

[NMMNG]

56. My moods have been in flux

Not really any depression yet but lots of irritability and agitation lately. It seems that things that normally wouldn't bother me have been, and things that would normally only get me a bit miffed are getting me really pissed. I can't stand my neighborhood, the new person at my weekend job is as bad as the one they recently fired, I'm sick of working 7 days a week, life under Rethuglican/Right-wing domination sucks, GRRRRRRR. :banghead:
It appears from the posts in this thread that I'm not alone in my agony...

[Seabiscuit]

57. That's why I came to the DU Lounge - after the 2004 election I just

couldn't take reality any more.

Unfortunately things here started getting just tooooooooo far out there and irrelevant to anything real.

So I dipped my feet into the fetid swamps of GD, GDP, and LBN, and you know what?

It's not so baaaaaaaad.

[In_The_Wind]

59. yes!

I hate it when people are hurting.

[progmom]

60. waking up to more bad news about New Orleans

...and seeing all the rest of the devastation has me pretty depressed. "cry:

[faithnotgreed]

62. maybe just maybe a hug will do a little for you

if so
im sending lots of them

i have just logged on so i dont know if you give an update anywhere but i hope youre ok progmom

[distantearlywarning]

64. I am both angry and depressed today.

I am concerned about my fellow citizens on the Gulf Coast. I am worried about the price of gasoline and the general economic repercussions of Katrina. I am worried because we haven't even hit the peak of hurricane season yet this year, and I am really damn angry that the Bush administration won't even acknowledge the possibility of global warming which may be feeding these storms.

And I am incredibly frustrated that in this time of crisis, my country is being led by an ineffectual, amoral nitwit. We need a strong, effective leader to reassure us and to lead us out of this darkness creeping over us and instead we have an egotistical, vindictive, ignorant little boy who has squandered our resources on a Middle Eastern dick swinging contest. It makes me want to scream when I think about it.

I can't even type anymore. I have to stop reading DU for a little bit. This stuff is making me too upset.

[TroglodyteScholar]

65. Yep, depressed...

Went on meds for the first time about two weeks ago. I've always been against crazy meds ever since I got put on Adderal when I was diagnosed with ADD & mild depression (about 10 years ago). Would be in therapy, but I'm unemployed so can't really afford paying to talk to someone. Wife's worried about me, and she's a mess too, bless her heart. But she's still working & actually doing really well in her job, so it's not all doom & gloom.

Hate to see so many others here feeling the same way, but you're all pretty good folks...so just keep on keepin on ;)

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