Am I the only one physically exhausted, not just mentally?

[Sarah Ibarruri]

I'm seriously tired. I don't want to fight anymore. I feel that I'm the only one interested enough in defending the least able, the only one who was interested enough in keeping our jobs here in the U.S., the only one interested in enough in taxing corporations and the mega-rich legitimately, the only one interested enough to get herself out there.

I see politicians engaging in a game of pretense, Dems in-fighting, and churches being among the most evil entities in the U.S. today.

[FiveGoodMen]

1. It's not just you.

I feel worn out and sick all the time.

It gets a little better if I take a long weekend and keep the news off.

[HappyMe]

6. I have a strict no news policy

2 days a week.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

7. I think I'm going to have to try that. My attitude has gone from bad to worse.

I've begun to see Americans (with the exception of a handful) are stupid.

[DesertFlower]

36. i'm an american and i have to

agree with you. bill maher has been saying it for years.

[DesertFlower]

2. i'm tired too.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

9. I'm just about ready to give up on all this shit. One side is evil, and the other is dumb. nt

[DesertFlower]

21. i agree. nt

[leveymg]

3. I rec you, and raise that. I also feel like I've been chased around by tanks and drones:

Like I've got combat fatigue.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

10. That's exactly it! Like combat fatigue! nt

[quinnox]

4. I'm very disappointed that Obama has turned out to be

such a weak president, he is almost a non-entity. No vision, nor force, no leadership, just someone who appears once in a while to make a speech and then disappears. No wonder Democrats are suffering so much, the GOP has an open goal to strike at all the time, the quarterback is missing...

[Sarah Ibarruri]

12. I've never felt this exhausted, really. I feel like I've wasted my time. nt

[FiveGoodMen]

28. "the quarterback is missing"

I think the quarterback has taken a bribe to throw the game.

[HughBeaumont]

38. Well, and I know you don't really want to hear this, but get used to it.

Not really "kosher" to say this on here, but "strong" presidents who stick up for the people and try to defang corporations take dirt naps in Arlington. Corporations vet every candidate from minute one. They don't play ball, they don't get funded. This is how "messiness" is avoided nowadays.

You're never going to see a President Howard Dean or a President Sherrod Brown.

Corporations and the wealthy would seriously prefer no Democratic presidents EVER.

I mean, what do you want me to tell you, life's fair?

This is the price Americans pay for not being brave people. They couldn't even think for one second what life would be like if they had no house, no possessions, no car, no job . . . in other words, nothing at all left to lose. We expect everyone else to do the fighting and hard work FOR us. We don't protest. We're afraid of police. We're afraid of being seen in the wrong place because we'd lose our jobs, and in turn, our health insurance.

We shudder to think what life would be like if we became one of, or less than, the "have too littles" that the TV keeps yapping about.

Therefore, they just go along, and vote along, to get along.

Americans participate in this dog and pony show called life because it's all about survival now. There isn't any notion of wanting real change.

If Barack Obama's election means anything, it's that the Plutocracy is now exposed in all it's ugly, wrinkled, hairy dangle-dongle old-white-man nudity.

They bought them. They bought them all. And your price just doubled.

I seriously don't even wonder any more about the notion of "how much longer Americans are going to take this".

"Our President Sucks! I'm voting for the other guy/not voting at all!" :eyes:

The whole system is corrupt from hair to sole.

That's the problem.

[Little Star]

40. What you said!!!

[Romulox]

5. "Lord I feel like going home/ I've tried and I failed and I'm tired and weary"

Lord I feel like going home
I've tried and I've failed and I'm tired and weary
Everything I've done was wrong
So Lord I feel like going home

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXqDyytuRvo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjMtxF6B630

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGZeVkAE16k

[Sarah Ibarruri]

14. Oh yes. I'm just exhausted. I just want to move abroad and not even turn around to look back nt

[MineralMan]

8. We're all tired.

[BeHereNow]

11. No, you are not the only one...

They have been battering us for years-
It is only logical that we are exhausted and sickened
by the toxic waste dump calling itself our government.
Take a bubble bath.
Sip some wine and sleep as much as you can.
Sleep helps restore your body and sanity- especially
if you are depressed, as I think we all are by now.

I have slept SO much this week and am not one bit ashamed of it.
I think we are all suffering PTSD to some degree.
Those of us who have been in the pit for over a decade, in particular.

I actually feel pretty good today- but I think it is because I have
come to accept "what is" and stop hoping for "what should be."

I can't recommend sleep strongly enough- it will allow your body and mind
to renew and regroup.

:grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug:
BHN

[Sarah Ibarruri]

15. I can't even sleep. I'm telling you, I see one side as evil and the other as dumb. nt

[BeHereNow]

20. How do you feel about asking your doctor for some help?

Due to a series of events- our current political farce included,
as well as dealing with a family member's illness- I started having
full blown panic attacks and sleep disorder.

He gave me a very low dose of an anti anxiety medication and
I have NO trouble sleeping now. No side effects and I wake up
feeling refreshed and ready to do the things I need to do each day.
I was too depressed and stressed out to function before I asked for help.

I would go insane without my sleep cycle.

BHN

[Sarah Ibarruri]

26. Same here. I think I might just have to do that. I'm too angry about what's going on, to get any

good sleep. Thanks for the suggestion.

I agree that without sleeping, things just seem worse.

[BeHereNow]

35. Depression and anxiety are the snake devouring its' tail.

Treat one and you have a chance of licking the other.
I find that with adequate sleep, my depression lifts- a little.
Sometimes I take something to help with that too.

You can discuss these things with a doctor- if you don't have insurance
or a regular GP, visit a clinic. Some communities have excellent
low cost facilities. For how much longer, who knows?

I can't take SSRI drugs, nor would I as I don't trust the research.
Too many settled cases with SSRIs.

However there are great "mood elevators" on the market.
My rule is I never take anything that has been on the market
less than ten years.

Not interested in "free samples" or being used as a lab rat.

Don't be afraid to get some help- it can improve the quality of your life
enormously and doesn't mean you will need it forever- just help yourself
get through this period of time which has affected SO many people, health wise.

Be good to yourself.
TPTB hate when you do that.

BHN

[jannyk]

13. You're definitely not alone. I'm knackered. nt

[Sarah Ibarruri]

16. :( Exhausted. nt

[treestar]

17. You think you might be the only one who cares about those things?

And the only one who can do anything about them?

[Sarah Ibarruri]

23. Sadly, sometimes I feel as if most people didn't care or were too dumb to care nt

[B Calm]

18. I'll fight these NO GOOD REPUBLICAN BASTARDS until I die!

[Sarah Ibarruri]

24. They're subhuman, and therefore conscienceless. nt

[Paper Roses]

19. Exhausted, discouraged, angry and confused.

Can't explain it any other way.

It is not that I am too old to care, I'm too old to absorb any more. It is all just too much.

[BeHereNow]

22. You nailed it- it's over saturation of abuse and shock.

Ever since the SCOTUS handed the country over to the BFEE,
we have been literally battered on a daily basis with outrageous
abuse and neglect with absolutely no consequence ever reaching the
perpetrators and criminals committing crimes against all humanity.

It's no wonder we are in shock, depression, anxiety-
no different than a dog chained to a porch with little food or water,
who is beaten mercilessly on a daily basis for year after year with no rescuer in sight.

At some point, that poor soul will become ill, mentally, spiritually and physically.

We are all that dog.
And our so called government is the master inflicting the
horrific abuse on a daily basis.

BHN

[Sarah Ibarruri]

25. I don't know how old you are, but I don't think age has anything to do with this exhaustion...

BOTH SIDES have beaten us into a pulp, and it doesn't matter how old one is. We're dead tired. That's how I feel, anyway.

[watercolors]

27. I think most of us are tired of this game, it keeps

everyone on edge. My mom who is 96 is so worried she will not get her SS check, and is afraid to pay her rent right now. We have reassured her that we are here to help & not to worry, but she is frantic, and very angry. Even at her age she is aware of the game the GOP is playing, thinks they are out to make Obama a scape goat.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

30. I'm about this close to saying that both sides are one. However...

the reality is that one side is Nazi-like and aims at creating a world of a few to-dos and the rest slaves to serve those assholes, and the other side is busy kowtowing to the Nazi ones constantly. In exchange for what? A lot of the poor and middle class kowtow in exchange for churchy bullshit, although what appeal there can be in American churches (which are nearly all right wing) is beyond me. I find nothing spiritual in American churches. They are the right arm of the Nazi pigs GOP and their ignorant branch, the baggers.

The rest kowtow because they love to get a pat in the back for throwing themselves and the neediest under the bus.

It's so incredibly stupid and servile. I'm sick of them. On both sides.

[McCamy Taylor]

29. The corporate media has a blackout on news about the suffering of Americans.

[Avalux]

31. You're correct. What we're shown on TV is NOT reality.

The media and commercials are geared to those who 'have', while those who 'have not' suffer without any representation or recourse.

The NEWS is not news, the news is a gigantic commercial to brainwash everyone into thinking a certain way that is not based in reality.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

39. But as long as we have the church sheeple nazis blindly going to the polls to vote in nazis....

and spewing bullshit against 'liberals,' this crap will continue.

I blame the church sheeple for most of what's going on here. Without the church sheep the GOP nazis would seldom get elected to anything.

[WCGreen]

32. Oh it certainly isn't just you....

I tell you I am surrounded by right leaning people in my life. My friends are almost all republicans and most of my family leans that way.

Sometimes, late at night the siren sound of low tax rates call to me...

I can't help but think because of Suburbs and economic segregation, the poor are out of sight and so easy to dismiss.

Time was in small towns and big cities, the people all had to mingle. You saw the struggles, you were there for the tragedies.

Now with hundreds of channels on the tube, you can pretty much go through life never exposed to those less fortunate than you....

[Sarah Ibarruri]

42. I'm so disappointed at this country. It's becoming dumber and dumber, blinder and blinder nt

[H2O Man]

33. No.

I think that a lot of people are.

I have physical disabilities. I suffer from chronic pain. I broke and chipped a number of bones this spring. One fall also resulted in organ damage. So my body is tired and aching. But not my mind. I fight for social justice every single day. I will until the day I die. And, if possible, I'll continue after that.

[DesertFlower]

37. i have chronic fatigue syndrome and

scoliosis. stress makes me feel worse. my back and legs are hurting. took a vicodin. don't like to take it but sometimes i have to.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

41. I admire you. nt

[fadedrose]

34. Cycles - we're due for something good....

Would Frank Sinatra lie?

[Sarah Ibarruri]

43. Oh I don't know. It's been 31 years of stupid people following nazi-like subhumans nt

[fadedrose]

47. Maybe you're not familiar with the song....

Try to hear it sometime, Cycles, by Sinatra...it goes, "I've been down, and I've been out, and so have many others...."


Whenever I get blue, that song always helped me. Trouble is, when you're dealing with Republicans, you have to play it every hour...

[Armstead]

44. Stop paying attention for a while. You'll feel better. Seriosuly

It is easy to get overloaded with this stuff. And it becomes frustrating because there's not much you can do do change it.

Take a break -- as long or short as necessary -- and enjoy the summer and focus on your own life. It's the best way to not let it get overwhelmning.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

49. It is. It's too much. It's a feeling of having been had. nt

[Manifestor_of_Light]

45. Unrelenting stress for decades. Destroys the adrenals.

Because of environmental chemicals and increased auto-immune disorders, more and more people have endocrine/glandular problems.

There are more people with low or high thyroid problems, than there are people with diabetes. But you don't see any pressure groups on TV, talking about the millions of people with thyroid problems.

Seems like everyone has adrenal exhaustion and doctors ignore it. My doctor ignores it and he's been my internist for 25 years.

Adrenal exhaustion is that feeling of "I can't deal with people anymore. I can't get up and face the public."
That's how it felt to me. A dead thyroid, to me, feels like, "All I want to do is sleep".

More info-thyroid and adrenals are related:

http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com

http://www.adrenals web.org/

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/ NaturalThyroidHormonesADRENALS/

http://faqhelp. webs.com/

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/NTHA-Chat/

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/RT3_T3/

http://www.thyroid-rt3.com/

[Sarah Ibarruri]

48. It does destroy the adrenals. It's like being married to a bully.

In this case, it's a low I.Q. one, to boot. Thank you for the links. I'm going to go view them.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

46. kick