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Is Everyone Depressed?
The Atlantic ^
| May 22, 2020
| James Hamblin
Posted on 05/23/2020 10:40:33 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
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People whose stock portfolios are heavily invested in Zoloft are probably not depressed.
To: CheshireTheCat
More TDS Karens who forgot how to go outside!
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posted on
05/23/2020 10:42:30 AM PDT
by
Bommer
(I'am a MAGA-Deplorian! It is the way! It is the only way!)
To: CheshireTheCat
Here in L.A. spirits seem to be high despite the strictness of lockdown measures...
To: CheshireTheCat
working at The Atlantic can’t help....
To: CheshireTheCat
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.
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posted on
05/23/2020 10:44:47 AM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: CondoleezzaProtege
Are you sure the people you are talking to aren’t just plain high?
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posted on
05/23/2020 10:44:56 AM PDT
by
CheshireTheCat
("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
To: CheshireTheCat
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.
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posted on
05/23/2020 10:45:32 AM PDT
by
freedumb2003
("DonÂ’t mistake activity for achievement." - John Wooden)
To: CheshireTheCat
Not depressed enough to read The Atlantic.
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posted on
05/23/2020 10:46:08 AM PDT
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: CheshireTheCat
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posted on
05/23/2020 10:46:49 AM PDT
by
ameribbean expat
(Attention! All persons having the corona virus...please report to the nearest IRS office. Thank you.)
To: CheshireTheCat
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.
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posted on
05/23/2020 10:47:07 AM PDT
by
Kickass Conservative
(THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
To: CheshireTheCat
Uh, not most conservatives. Libs are always depressed so there’s that.
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posted on
05/23/2020 10:47:20 AM PDT
by
rktman
( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: Bommer
More TDS Karens who forgot how to go outside!
There are non-TDS types who are naturally social and feed off of the mood of society at large. Some of them like going to clubs, or parades, large family gatherings, or ball games. These people are perfectly normal and a properly functioning society needs them. They are also off their game when things out and about aren't right, like a cat might feel when you rearrange the furniture ... uneasy ... unsettled ... something not quite right.
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posted on
05/23/2020 10:47:28 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics)
To: CheshireTheCat
I don't know how to categorize it but I guess sad is the best word I can use to express how I feel when I see so many people that I assumed were aware that life contains risk so consumed with fear that they look like walking mummies.
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.
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posted on
05/23/2020 10:49:03 AM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: Joe 6-pack
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!
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posted on
05/23/2020 10:49:25 AM PDT
by
xp38
To: CheshireTheCat
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.
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posted on
05/23/2020 10:50:22 AM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(I fear my government more than the Chinese bug.)
To: CheshireTheCat
For woke snowflakes whining about depression in their HEPA-filtered, Netflix-streamed, food-delivered homes, I have two words: Anne Frank. She stayed for 2 years in an attic worrying about a "virus" that killed 66% of her people. Talk to me in two years about depression.
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posted on
05/23/2020 10:50:58 AM PDT
by
DoodleBob
(Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
To: CheshireTheCat
I live in a small cul-de-sac of five houses. Two of the houses are occupied by single women in their 40s or early 50s. One of them has been visited by her parents a few times, but the other hasn't had anyone there except delivery people for three months.
Maybe she likes it that way, but you would think it might be affecting her a bit. We briefly chat with her every once in a while when we're out in the yard, but that seems to be the extent of her social life.
To: CheshireTheCat
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.
To: Kickass Conservative
Hanged?
Hell, apparently most of em havent even been QUESTIONED.
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posted on
05/23/2020 10:51:51 AM PDT
by
daler
To: CheshireTheCat
Well I went shopping yesterday at a box store and I gotta say what a pain in the neck wearing a mask was and having to wear gloves to look at shoes...it sure took the fun out of shopping having to keep readjusting the mask so I could ‘see’ merchandise I was looking at let alone keep another eye for other customers around me.
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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posted on
05/23/2020 10:51:56 AM PDT
by
caww
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