politics and depression

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Thursday June 30, 2005 · 3:23 AM PDT

2005/06/30 · 03:23

I'm a new poster here, though I've been reading DK for a while now. It's nice to get good information as well as to see others express the anger and bewilderment I so often feel upon learning of the right wing's latest outrage. A reaction I don't see very often, though, is despair. Of course, maybe I'm just reading the wrong (right?) diaries, but I don't see anyone fling his/her hands up and say, Well, that does it, the @ssholes have won.

I admire this, as despair tends to be my natural reaction to politics a lot of the time. I've been dealing with depression for a while; I've been seeing therapists and on medication for about five years, though as I look back over my life I think my depressive tendencies have always been there in some form. Which is basically a way of saying I don't have any trouble seeing the bad in the world or the worst possible outcomes of what's going on. Because of this, I "unplugged" just after 9/11. The constant assault of the news was doing a real number on my mental health. I had to consciously say, No, I can't look at this, can't think about it. Read More

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