You Know I've Been So

[Greylyn58]

upset and worried with what the Rethugs are doing or will be doing since the election that I have made myself sick. Today is the 4th day of feeling ill, but I'm starting to feel alittle better after what I did today.

I decide to watch other things....I watched several shows on archeology, specifically relating to Egyptology, then I watched a favorite old movie from the '60s called "Yours, Mine and Ours" then several episodes of my favorite comedy show "Whose Line Is It Anyway" and then my all time favor cartoons - Road Runner and Coyote. I have laughed so much my face aches and it has made me feel so much better.

I must make a habit of this...sort of like a refreshment for my soul because otherwise those people will make me half or all crazy in not time flat.

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[azoth]

1. I hear you.

When I come across a particularly nasty fact - the raise in the debt ceiling the other day, for example - I get this sharp pain in my stomach.

You think I can sue the administration for my ulcer?

[pilgrimm]

2. Yeah I think I gotta take a break before a friend puts me in the hospital

I could rant endlessly, getting myself worked up to the point where I'm yelling at myself. it is sad.

[bobbieinok]

3. Norman Cousins wrote a book about how laughter helped heal him

of a major disease

maybe we need a group for suggestions of non-political humor

like (for some people) Marx Brothers films

[PlanetBev]

6. I think reading history helps. Puts things in perspective

This ain't the first time we've been through this. The Salem Witchcraft trials, The Gilded Age and later McCarthyism. We will get through this sooner than we think. These idiots always detonate under their own hubris and history remembers them as the snakes that they are.

[Greylyn58]

7. That Would B A Good Idea

Maybe post favorite jokes, comedy movies, shows and cartoons.

Something to take your mind to another place...even if for a little time.

[bigtree]

4. You gotta set your own course and take the news off of the remote memory

Keep a regular glance at the news sources online that you trust and act outside of the babble that has replaced objective, informative news.

[katinmn]

5. I wake up in the middle of the night thinking about stuff

or sometimes just stay up all night cuz I can't sleep.

It's really eating away at me and I know it's not healthy.

But to ignore it, accept it, go along my merry way isn't the right thing either.

I have initiated some new progressive activities but I wish I could do a lot more.

[Applepie]

8. I felt the same

had to take a break from it all. Watched ELF with Will Farrell. It was so nice to forget for a while.