Emotional overload.

[kentuck]

Anger, pain, sadness, pity, confusion, compassion, and fear all tied together with barbed wire...

[Poll_Blind]

1. Can you believe all this shit started just a week ago?

Feels like 2 months, at least.

PB

[Buzz Clik]

2. It's been a tough month.

My tank is running low. Time re-energize.

[WilliamPitt]

3. .

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=686108&mesg_id=686108

Breathe.

[roguevalley]

8. the world pivoted on a dime and we are down a different road

than we were. I don't have no hope. I am always hopeful. I just mourn for all the helpless people that have to pay for other people's stuff.

[CoffeeCat]

4. I feel as if I've aged about...

...30 years in the past week.

Sad thing...I think the coming week or two will be even worse.

[Lorien]

5. One of my friends on FB who is very politically and globally aware wrote two days ago:

"I think I speak for everyone when I say "AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" and he did. I've felt drained and profoundly depressed and exhausted lately. I know that it's nothing compared to what the Japanese, very poor and union workers are feeling.

[alittlelark]

6. I fell apart making dinner - I had to hide in the garage.

Combo of world issues and life issues.

[Turborama]

7. It's been an extremely heavy year so far

I've been having those emotions rolling around since I first found out the Tunisia uprising was going on in January.

[defendandprotect]

9. If you don't want high blood pressure -- pay no attention to what goes on in the world -- !!!

Some say "politics" is the shadow cast over government by corporations -- !!

What are we suffering that we couldn't trace to corporations?

[applegrove]

10. Yup. It has been an upsetting period of time. I'm glad I'm on meds or I would

be a puddle by now.

[rzemanfl]

11. So far this century has just sucked. It was less than 1 year ago

that we were posting about BP.

[mia]

12. Empathy brings you there. n/t

[Urban Prairie]

13. Yeah, boy!!

It is ratcheted up here for me personally as well, just unending, but I don't want to miss a thing outside of my tiny world, that got so much tinier for me and my troubled wife, just a year or so prior to when the sh.it hit the fan economically for tens of millions more.

My father was a WWII vet who did just prior to the turn of the century. I find myself envying him off and on even despite his growing up in the Great Depression. I really have loathed the 21st century so far for the most part.