Do you ever feel like you just want to pull your hair out?

[Blue_Roses]

Maybe not literally, but do you ever feel like--is this it? Like the movie--is this "As good as it gets,"? I write and have kept a journal of "thoughts" for years and I was looking back the other day and when I reached a point where I thought the sky was the limit on life and possibilities, I thought, where did this person go? Grant it. It could be much worse, but between raising a family and Bush destroying our country, the "sizzle" has fizzled. I often miss the carefree days of college when I could be irresponsible while drinking jungle juice on the beach during spring break in Florida. What I would give to have a week of those days back.

The hum drum of life has set in. Now it seems like days and nights just run together and I'm not even having fun:eyes: At least when the days and nights ran together during the earlier years I was having fun.

I know a lot of it is Bush fatigue. I'm just so damn tired of this man and his bully group. The election definitely put me in a depression for about a week, but even though I have managed to "deal" with dim-son in office again, I find myself just so fucking tired of his worthless policies. It is enough to depress anyone. I was yelling at the TV during his press conference last Thursday--in front of my kids. This isn't me. How do we cope with this man for the rest of his term?

Oh, well, just wondering if I'm the only one wondering if my sizzle has fizzled.

Now back to what we call life :eyes:

[DemExpat]

1. The hope, sparkle, excitement about the future of our collective world

is very much dampened for me since Gore lost the election, 9/11, Kerry's defeat, and more local negative developments here on my side of the Altlantic.....

I am wondering if we are really the "smart ones" who see what is really going on, or the ones who are projecting their private frustrations and fears on political events and realities.

I cannot really say for sure in my case.
:-(

Maybe a bit of both.

It was easier for me when I had (little) kids living here with me because I was determined then to create a half way positive, creative, and hopeful home-life for them, and now that they are out of the house and getting on with their lives in very positive ways (which in itself is an inspiration to me!) I am back to my own thoughts generally, and they don't always tend to lean to the bright side.

Maybe you can take this tip from me and make a pact with yourself to help your kids build a positive vision of society and their life in it by focusing on what is good in your little piece of the world - and in my case with my kids it was making an effort to organize and maintain regular and fun get-togethers/activities/little trips with people we like, enjoy, and have fun with - with kids! People I met through the kids school, neighbors, etc....

I hear you, know what you mean, but don't know what the answer is.
I know that I would feel better with elected leadership steering our world in a direction that I feel is good and just!

My hubby sees it as cycles, and that it will come around to our way again before too long.
I am not so sure with the power, money, and deceit involved in maintaining a hold on government, the media, and institutions.

:hug:

DemEx

[Droopy]

2. I've tuned out politics for the time being

After the election I felt like someone had punched me in the gut and took the wind and fight out of me. I rarely post in the political forums now. I'm just going to do my job and try to stay afloat in this rough economy. In the mean time I'll be watching sports, mowing the lawn and hanging out with all the cool DUers in the non-political forums.

[undergroundpanther]

3. Here here droopy

I post wherever...(staying OUT of the lounge for now tho. it pisses me off)
But yeah I wanna pull my hair out too(what isn't shaved off that is) and it's a case of all pissed off and no one to choke..because the administration voted or scammed in by the ignorant is pissing me off is unchokable by the likes of me and so I try to get my anger out in creative ways art, ritual magic, Cursing the fuck out of bush, making little effigies of the dim bulb and torturing it, taking it out on the cause symbolically at least helps..whatever works. I do this little psychodrama because if I didn't I know the seething I feel underneath and the attempt to suppress it all day while everyone I meet is laa de dahh all around me would be such a constant irritation I know I'd slip up and let my anger out on uninvolved oblivious people who look at me cross eyed..My own inner anger would bring out the claws much quicker..and they'd get a shredding all out of proportion.

So yeah instead of pulling out my Mohawk or someone elses'doo I build a bush doll and I stomp on it,singe it's face ,bury it in the cat box,microwave it,and worse..Sometimes I let my three cats have at it by tying the ankles to a bit of twine and dragging it, like a cat toy..Hell it's fun for me..It's a joy to fantasize the doll IS him,and maybe just by my will projecting across the aether's maybe he'll have a nightmare about being chased and disemboweled by 3 giant cats .LOL..

[elshiva]

4. Why does the Lounge piss you off?

:hi:

[undergroundpanther]

6. Because some of

The posters in the lounge find it amusing to 'rag on people'..as if that kind of cruel talk is ok because it's excused in the name of funny.. I don't find verbal abuse belittiling and scapegoating people funny that's all.

I don't like to support humor that is gotten at the expense of other people's dignity who aren't hurting anyone or a politician/public figure misusing power making my life harder.I don't like seeing fat people treated like moral degenerates and social outcasts being subjected to snide crap that hurts. The fat phobes are bigoted,reacting and almost always ignorant of the complexities about body image weight and how ugly social scapegoating can hurt people even when your clique is laughing..


I don''t like the way body mod people(like me) are ripped in the lounge for 'humor's sake when to me it hurts.. I asked for it to stop.. I don't like being around verbal sadism posing as humor that I see over there and the fact people are oblivious or excusing it..While other posters when they ruin into bullies and bigots just seek escape into the forums rather than stay around to be bashed and made fun of by these rude people

I see this kind of bullshit in the lounge more than the other spots on DU.

So I don't go there to waste my time on telling insensitive people who should know better to be better when they could care less about the issue of decency. They ain't worth my time if they can't or refuse to respect me. .Why bother?

[elshiva]

8. Sorry. I like the Lounge, but last night they

had a stupid thread making fun of lesbians. I am a bi lady and I find that insulting. Also I am fat, so it bothers me in the same way.

Have you tried the Fat Acceptance group? It is OK.

[Droopy]

5. I guess we are all doing what we can to get along

And if voo doo works for you then so be it. :)

[funkybutt]

7. I'm experiencing some burn out as well

I hadn't become politically active until before this election. I put every part of me into getting Kerry elected and when that didn't happen, it felt like being struck by a train.

I'm still participating in activisim and trying to do the right thing, but not with as much power and enthusiasm that I had before. Headlines about how bad Bush is fucking us over hurt me more than they used to...back when there was hope of avoiding another 4 years of this.

For now, I've cut back the activism to a moderate level so that I can clear more time for strictly social engagements (completely non political) and I've used a lot of the connections I made in the campaign to spark a private business that I do in my spare time, supplementing my income.

I'm also exercising more. This really helps burn off the anger. Maybe you should try that. :)