Is it just me?  Anyone else have stress, anxiety and depression watching the corruption & ugliness of DC, Biden's EO's, and demise of the USA? 

Feeling so hopeless.

I have not lost FAITH!

I think you need to take a break from watching all this crap, its not going to get any better any time soon since the Dems hate all of us that support Trump.. go watch a good fun movie or go out side and enjoy life, work in the yard. I had to take a break from the news since it was so depression to me too, its not worth it to make yourself feel like crap over something that these evil people get off too.  

Yes. . . Ive been reading the Bible more. Portals & Prayers. significantly reduced watching the news, and FB. Deleted Twitter. Trying to spend more time outside with the horses too! 

Good!!! It will get better, but its just going to take a while, so try to stay as postive as you can. Hugs

I couldn't quite put my finger on it but I'm thinking I am having the same issue. I've been having such a hard time sleeping, I'm exhausted during the day. I literally have to force myself to function some days. I'm snappy at my kids, they notice... I homeschool them so I really need to be on my A game, which I feel like I'm failing miserably. I worry,  now more than ever about their futures and ours. I stay up worrying most nights. I know I will never EVER watch CNN again before I go to bed. That gave me nightmares. So I think most of MY problems come from.social media.. I really need to leave it. Politics is EVERYWHERE.... even on my homesteading pages I love to follow, and poultry raising pages... one comment about either side turns into a full blown war with words with people. The ugliest things are written with the intent to destroy the other... talking about their families even wishing them death from covid. It's horrible. Hearing all the people being banned or their products being thrown off the shelves because they support so n so ... its just crazy and downright frightening.  People losing jobs and other people laughing.... its sad to see and makes me ANGRY. I blocked all news sources from my Facebook but if a friend comments on it, I see it ... I see my friends and people I care about getting attacked on social media almost daily by complete strangers ... I consider myself a strong woman but this stuff is breaking me. I pray every night for peace and pray for strength and knowledge and I pray for direction so I can lead my children... but quite honestly I feel like a one legged person in an a$$ kicking contest lately 

It's wonderful!! Thank God he's gone!! Have you seriously missed the immature twitter rants of a madman?

I know the GOP is the party of hate by my goodness, get over it!

Truth be told most of our daily lives will not be affected by whomever is president. Trump was far and away the worst president of my lifetime and even more corruption from his time coming out everyday. But life went on just fine during his term. Even for democrats. 

You will always have the far left idiots like ANTIFA and BLM and the far right right idiots like QANon, Alt-Right, KKK, Proud Boy, Oath Keepers, etc. OK, y'all got more.

But most of us are in between those extremes. The internet does allow the idiots to gather so it seems like more of them. 

Biden will govern from the center just as he has for his entire career. What he won't do is get on twitter and act like an imbecile. 

I forgot that wonderful little feature on here, add to ignore list... check! 

Ummm, what a lot of folks are missing today are their jobs which went down the drain with the Keystone Pipeline.  Others may be worrying about their 401K as the stock market is taking a pretty good hit today.  Your hero Joe Dementia is pulling the rug out from under all of us.  Thank goodness you're included in the mix.

I just bumped up another thread for you, A friend of yours was asking you a question in a friends way of asking. 

Edited to add; I thought I better tell you what thread it is, its the BHW Bidens Voters thread,, So waiting for a answer..

Gas prices have already shot up .20 here and 50,000 new unemployed beg to differ. Plants have shut down hiring for the foreseeable future and much of the country is still in some sort of lockdown, so not many jobs out there right now. So could you please tell where the good is? I never did Twitter and that is the most ludicrous reason to vote someone out of office. 
Not to mention all the free speech censorship that is going on AND did you forget Antifa and BLM attacked the Dems headquarters in Oregon? Oh wait,  that a peaceful protest. Never mind all the burning and destroying of property. 

The Lord was in control yesterday, He is in control today, and He will be in control tomorrow.  Do not lose faith.

Oh, now I get it.  This is what "governing from the center" is supposed to look like.  Gee, I feel all warm and tingly down my leg.  Finally we have a leader with the courage to take on the evil fossil fuel industry.  Finally, we have a leader willing to act on the #1 concern discussed at  kitchen tables across the fruited plain - "racial equity".  Finally, we have a leader with the courage to appoint cabinet officials based on the most important criteria: race, gender, and ethnicity.

Like this one, for example.  This is Dr Rachel Levine.  She was the Secretary of Health for Pennsylvania.  She mandated nursing home patients be confined to nursing homes during the pandemic.  Many succumbed to Covid19, but here's the rich part - she promptly took her mother out of her nursing home and had her put up in a hotel.  She defended her actions by calling her accusers "transphobic", as she is a transgender woman.  This is not new, mind you.  They called people who criticized Obama's actions "racists", even though the criticism had nothing to do with race whatsoever.

Biden didn't appoint this person because of her qualifications.  He wanted to appoint someone who was trans gender for purposes of political pandering and political expedience, obviously.  This is how a centrist governs?  Good to know. 

And those 11,000 jobs that paid an average of $100,000 a year on the KeystoneXL pipeline?  Meh....those are just unfortunate "casualties" of the switch to Green New technology.  

But hey, the good news is his plan for free college and college debt forgiveness. That kind of "centrist" plan should excite anyone. How will he pay for it?  I'm guessing part will be confiscated from your inheritance. He's promised to raise the estate tax rate to 45% and lower the exemption to $3.5 million. (The exemption is currently at about $11.5 million for individuals, and the tax rate is 40%).  Farmers and ranchers should be particularly pleased with this brilliant plan.  Granted, $3.5 million sounds like a generous exemption, but it isn't if you own a small 500 acre family farm or ranch that was paid for with money that had already been taxed, and taxed handsomely every year thereafter in property taxes.  If that farm is located in some parts of the country where land is $10,000 an acre, it is worth $5 million.  That is by no means a big farm, and it's usually harder than hell to make a living off 500 acres.  Under Trump, that family wouldn't pay inheritance tax on anything under $11.5 million.  Under Biden's plan, the inheritance is $1.5 million over the exemption limit.  That means the heirs have to come up with at least $600,000 to pay the tax.  Not that many people have access to that kind of money.  The kids who wanted to continue the family farming operations just have to pound sand and take it in the ass, because they will be forced to sell that farm that's been in the family for generations.  But it should be some consolation knowing that kids will get free college so they can go away to college and learn about transgender studies and critical race theory, and become good, servile skinny fit jean-wearing little worker bees.
Wanna guess who is buying up those farms?  Oligarchs like Buffett and Gates.....and China.  Yes, that's right.  China has been buying up farmland.

Gotta love it when a real demented "centrist" is bringing unity back.  This is how this centrist is making good on his plan to "build back better".

To the OP, I feel your pain.  Here's my advice.  Find balance.  Do the things that bring you happiness, peace, and joy.  Only you can identify those things.  For me it's my family, great friends, fishing, hunting, good books, reading, documentaries, a decent movie, etc...  Yesterday I went to a buddy's place and he's trying to teach me to rope.  He said I'm doing great....that brings me joy.  I'll probably never compete, but it's something to knock off my bucket list.  Another thing that you might actually find rewarding is getting involved, in your own way, in the public debate - the things that matter to you....call it the "arena of ideas".  In your own little way you might discover that fighting for what you believe in has it's own rewards.  Above everything else, don't lose hope and never give up.  That's exactly what these evil bastards want you to do.

It sure doesn't look good.   If anyone thinks the demise of our economy is a good thing, well, they have blinders on.   

Thinking that all of these EOs won't effect the general man, well, that's just assinine.  They WILL effect every last thing you do, because your dollar will not even come close to going as far if you are paying for high dollar gas because the trickle down effect sucks.  Everything goes up in price except for our paychecks, which they are going to tax out the wazoo as well.   Not to mention the fact that now there's going to be the wrong folks in the wrong bathrooms.  I neither want to go when there's feet facing the toilet next to me, nor do I even want to think about them making all bathrooms unisex and having to go in the dude's room.  

It's time to beleive in the power of good overcomes evil, but it's going to be a knock down drag out and the thunder comes before the rain washes the grime away.  

I'm currently glad I made the decision to not have kids.  But I'm not rolling over and letting the depression take me either. 

Hey look at the MORON who uncaringly takes depression and anxiety and shoves it up your butt!!!!Let me tell you mister,THAT IS NO LAUGHING MATTER,YOU AND YOUR LEFTIES BETTER START SENDING SOME MONEY FOR AMERICAS NEEDS OF DEPRESSION,HAVE YOU SEEN THE SUICIDE RATES LATELY YOU JACKASS!!!!!!

Well said jake16

 Tagging along onto the highlighted portions of your post...

First highlighted section:

But Kerry said those who lost their jobs on the pipeline could build solar panels...

How typical of someone, especially a politician, who hasn't made a career from a trade, training, worked through the ranks and loves what they do and makes a living at, would say. 

Buttigieg said an even more generic version of it the other day.

What a crock of ****. It goes to show little they care about the working class and how out of touch they are with everyday life. 

To second portion highlighted:

Warren Buffett owns BNSF which hauls crude from Canada to the US at $30/barrel. Keystone Pipeline would put a big dent in those profits. Buffett also is a contributor to the Democratic party, endorsed Obama and Killery, not sure if did Biden?. But hey let's ax it- iT's bEaCauSe oF tHe eViroNMeNT! More strings pulled.

Perhaps go to the doctor and get some antidepressants.  I'm not big on taking that type of medication but if you need it, you need it. Mental issues are not something to just ignore and hope they fix themselves. I quit watching the news, all of it. The local news which is out of Shreveport just has very local news as in how many blacks shot other blacks and anything they can dig up on Trump. I even quit watching the weather and it hasn't quit raining since. I one bright spot in all this is that I checked my 403B (teacher 401k) a few weeks before the election and was astonished at how much that little dab of money I put in had grown. I contacted my financial planner and had every bit of it taken out and put into another type of investment just in case the stock market took a nose dive. That at least had kept my spirits up!  My one last Debbie Downer comment is that I just hope that Biden does not plunge us into a major depression. (I'm sorry, not a good thing to say to someone already depressed.)  Try to find a hobby. I have been sewing really nice western shirts and have made a bunch of baby quilts to sell. I also do genealogy which is fun and some of the genealogy sites on Facebook are hilarious. It is worth the price of a subscription to Ancestry or even better FAMILY SEARCH is free. Crochet is really satisfying (I have a beautiful afghan that mind grandmother made me 50 years ago and I made one about 40 years ago.). and those pictures that you have on yor phone???go get them printed out and make some fantastic scrapbooks that will last forever. There you go....a nice big list of ways to get your mind off things. 

If I order any more chickens my husband may leave me lol! My chickens keep me busy .... crazy busy... I have 45 babies coming next week that I had ordered last year and honestly I can't wait till they get here. They lift my spirits and keep my mind occupied. I decided to put a dozen of my lavendar chickens eggs into my incubator last week so hopefully in 21 days I'll have pretty purple chicks. I rescued my first chicken last night... my husband's cousin called me in a panic saying a hen had fallen out of a truck in front of their house and was hiding in their carport. Apparently she escaped the slaughter truck ... bounced out ... so 10pm last night I loaded up my boys and we went to town to go check it out.  Sure enough the poor ol girl had perched herself onto their pickup brush guard... easy catch. I brought her home and fed her and she's in quarantine in my barn but looks pretty healthy and somewhat relieved.

I need a "Crazy Chicken Lady" T shirt 

Ha ha ha ha, your are such a hoot, you crazy chicken lady..