I have been on a "news diet" for the last couple of weeks--as much of a diet as I can make myself be on, at any rate. I am a bit of a news junkie, especially when it comes to politics. But I've stayed away from here, I've not watched much Rachel or Keith, I've not listened to much progressive talk.
I've had to go on this diet because my anxiety levels were going through the roof. Well, I broke my diet and now I am feeling the anxiety come rushing back.
We are a paycheck-to-paycheck family. I will spare you the details of our last ten years, but suffice it to say we have gone through critical/chronic illness (mine), un- and underemployment, the loss of all of our substantial savings and retirement, and soaring health insurance costs that ate drastically into the meager savings I managed to accumulate. How we made it through without declaring bankruptcy and keeping our home I just do not know--well, I do. My folks helped us.
But if this goes down the way people like Thom Hartmann say it's going to, my family is well and truly fucked. I'm not sure my husband's company will make it through a depression. If he loses his job, we lose our insurance. And if we lose our insurance, I will die, I mean, literally die. I am terrified. This is why I haven't been here much and have tried to ignore the news.
Please, please talk me down. I'm already trying to figure out what on earth we could do to make ends meet without work. Raising chickens for eggs, taking in boarders...oh yes, I've studied up on Depression thriftiness, I've dreaded this for years. I just hoped I'd be in a better financial position than this when it hit. We worked hard before our troubles hit to be in a better financial position than this, because we felt it coming.
Please talk me down.
