Posted on 05/23/2020 10:40:33 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
The word I keep hearing is numbness. Not necessarily a sickness, but feeling ill at ease. A sort of detachment or removal from reality. Deb Hawkins, a tech analyst in Michigan, describes the feeling of being stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic as “sleep-walking through my life” or “wading through a physical and mental quicksand.” Even though she has been living in what she calls an “introvert heaven” for the past two months—at home with her family, grateful they are in good health—her brain has dissented. “I feel like I have two modes,” Hawkins says: “barely functioning and boiling angry.”...Over the past month, Jennifer Leiferman, a researcher at the Colorado School of Public Health, has documented a tidal wave of depressive symptoms in the U.S. “The rates we’re seeing are just so much higher than normal,” she says. Leiferman’s team recently found that people in Colorado have, during the pandemic, been nine times more likely to report poor mental health than usual. About 23 percent of Coloradans have symptoms of clinical depression...
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More TDS Karens who forgot how to go outside!
Here in L.A. spirits seem to be high despite the strictness of lockdown measures...
working at The Atlantic can’t help....
I suspect people of faith are handling this a lot better than those without. Just my supposition, and I certainly have no statistic, or even what kind of metrics could be used to prove my point.
Are you sure the people you are talking to aren’t just plain high?
I’m fine but I worked for a year almost 100% remote/telecommuting so I am used to it.
Mrs. FD says the same thing — she is a shut-in by desire and habit. No change for her except I am here more.
As for these “depressed” people, I have a message:
Boo Hoo.
Not depressed enough to read The Atlantic.
There, there princess... just let it all out...
Not depressed, that will only happen if the Rats win in November.
More like sick and tired. Four years of the Russian Hoax with nobody being Hanged for Treason and now the Kung Flu.
Uh, not most conservatives. Libs are always depressed so there’s that.
What happened to the land of the free and the home of the brave? We've faced down and defeated armed enemies, financial destruction, famine and who knows what-all but we cower in fear that we might get the sniffles.
We've become the land of the guilt-trippers and the home of the control freaks.
Someone sent me this yesterday
A while
back I read a story of a visiting pastor who attended a men’s breakfast in the
middle of a rural farming area of the country. The group had asked an older
farmer, decked out in bib overalls, to say grace for the morning
breakfast.
“Lord,
I hate buttermilk”, the farmer began. The visiting pastor opened one eye to
glance at the farmer and wonder where this was going.
The
farmer loudly proclaimed, “Lord, I hate lard.” Now the pastor was growing
concerned.
Without
missing a beat, the farmer continued, “And Lord, you know I don’t much care for
raw white flour”. The pastor once again opened an eye to glance around the room
and saw that he wasn’t the only one to feel uncomfortable.
Then
the farmer added, “But Lord, when you mix them all together and bake them, I do
love warm fresh biscuits. So Lord, when things come up that we don’t like, when
life gets hard, when we don’t understand what you’re saying to us, help us to
just relax and wait until you are done mixing. It will probably be even better
than biscuits. Amen.”
Within
that prayer there is great wisdom for all when it comes to complicated
situations like we are experiencing in the world today.
Stay
strong, my friends, because our LORD is mixing several things that we don’t
really care for, but something even better is going to come when HE is done with
it. AMEN!
I would be depressed too if I worked at an America-hating rag of a magazine that pretends to be intellectual, and is going bankrupt.
Here in rural Oklahoma, we ended the social-distancing stuff, a few hours after we tried it initially. Group bike rides, picnics, sports, patio parties.
No one I know here (except a few democrats) has paid much attention to this stuff. We’re fine.
Hell, apparently most of ‘em haven’t even been QUESTIONED.
Add in paying at the register and having my cap rim butt up against the divider screen when using the pad, and not hearing the clerk because she was muffled with her mask.
If this is suppose to be the new normal attire and procedures then my days of in store shopping will be greatly adjusted.
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