GREAT story, thanks !
Posted on 04/21/2013 2:04:54 PM PDT by Perseverando
Terrorism. Chaos. Fear of the future. In the age of Obama, America is undergoing a “fundamental transformation” – that much everyone knows.
But what few seem to realize about this transformation is that the sheer stress of living in today’s America is driving tens of millions to the point of illness, depression and self-destruction. Consider the following trends:
Suicide has surpassed car crashes as the leading cause of injury death for Americans. Even more disturbing, in the world’s greatest military, more U.S. soldiers died last year by suicide than in combat;
Fully one-third of the nation’s employees suffer chronic debilitating stress, and more than half of all “millennials” (18 to 33 year olds) experience a level of stress that keeps them awake at night, including large numbers diagnosed with depression or anxiety disorder.
Shocking new research from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that one in five of all high-school-aged children in the United States has been diagnosed with ADHD, and likewise a large new study of New York City residents shows, sadly, that one in five preteens – children aged six to 12 – have been medically diagnosed with either ADHD, anxiety, depression or bipolar disorder;
New research concludes that stress renders people susceptible to serious illness, and a growing number of studies now confirm that chronic stress plays a major role in the progression of cancer, the nation’s second-biggest killer. The biggest killer of all, heart disease, which causes one in four deaths in the U.S., is also known to have a huge stress component;
Incredibly, 11 percent of all Americans aged 12 and older are currently taking SSRI antidepressants – those highly controversial, mood-altering psychiatric drugs with the FDA’s “suicidality” warning label and alarming correlation with school shooters.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Me too, but I think those of us who are older than 50 have an advantage.
Our early childhoods were in a time when America was still a fairly traditional, moral nation.
Our mothers mostly stayed home instead of dumping us in daycare.
Our fathers mostly stayed married to our mothers.
Viewing pornography, being a promiscuous or a becoming a welfare sponge were still considered shameful activities.
Politicians who were caught in dishonest behavior were still expected to resign.
All of that has changed over the last few decades. For the worse.
Sure wish this story was somewhere other than WND. This is all we’ll hear of this, folks. The MSM has a rule: If it’s on WND, we’ll never touch it.
Good for you. I struggle to make it through one day at a time.
Response: People can no longer stand their vices nor can they tolerate the remedies necessary to cure them resulting in an unbearable tension.
Best laugh I’ve had all day.
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Sad, but true. My adopted dad, who passed away a couple of years ago, was born in a sod house on the eastern plains of rural Colorado in 1916. His mother died a couple of years later when the flu epidemic killed so many and he was bounced from one family to the next, just another toe headed, motherless boy.
There is an old picture of him from during the "Great" depression, standing with his friends who are all wearing store bought clothes, while he is wearing the pants he stitched together himself.
The intense shame he felt during that time made it hard for him to even look at that picture for the rest of his life, but that shame drove him to somehow overcome himself and his circumstances and make a success of himself anyway, despite not having more than a high school education and despite failing repeatedly.
When I first met him, I thought he was the most hardassed individual I'd ever met and still do. That's what it took for him to survive what life threw at him and throw it right back. My early years weren't all that easy and I think I've overcome my share of hurdles, but the older I get, the more I realize how much less of a man I am by comparison.
His generation fought the Axis and saved the world. Our generation gave all that away in exchange for some political correctness and "free" stuff from GuvCo.
You're right. Collectively, we are a bunch of pu$$ies who had it too easy and are about to lose it all.
We all need to revisit this scripture now and then in this zany world.
Yep. We are ENCOURAGED to wallow in our disappointment and pain instead of fighting to change it.
My dog Frank was riding in the back seat. He stepped on the armrest and lowered the power window and stuck his head out. I saw his smiling face staring at me in the outside rear view mirror and almost lost it to as I was laughing so hard.
You need a smarter dog (Frank is a blue eyed Cardigan Fluff Welsh Corgi, he is the Hobbit of dogs! He would be driving if his legs were a little longer...)
Regards,
GtG
It's about more than that. Honestly, I think we are to some extent feeling the same things that led people to become alcoholics and give up hope in the USSR.
There's been a loss of purpose, and a loss of the hope that comes from thinking you have the power to change your own situation. When the media doesn't tell the truth, when those in power treat those who have achieved as the problem rather than the solution, when people who have delayed gratification for years to have a better life find themselves not much or no better off than those who made no such effort, there is a grand disillusionment. We are living in a time of great demoralization. Ironically, or maybe not so ironically, demoralization was one of the most powerful tools of the politburo.
Of course, this being the idiots at Wing Nut Daily, this is because cars have become so much safer the rate of auto deaths has been rapidly dropping, not because suicide rates have exploded.
After dropping for a long time, suicide rates have risen since the recession started, but the overall suicide rate now is still LOWER than it was in the "good 'ol days" of 1950.
Good grief. We’re turning into a nation of wusses. No one ever said reality would be a bargain. Man up and deal with it. Make your reality as good as you can. If it doesn’t work out as you had hoped, suck it up and try again. I have no sympathy for someone who commits suicide just because life is a little rough sometimes.
I wish is was somewhere else, too; then it wouldn't be misleading garbage.
Thank you for sharing your story. Do you know where your adopted father was born and raised?
My origins are from the same general area (Trinidad). My grandfather and great Uncle were born during the same time and shared the challenges from the Great Depression. I remember them saying how they would eat Robins for dinner. Apparently much like quail ?
I agree. Compared to the life’s challenges that they faced, we don’t know how good we have it.
Regards,
MFO
“What do you do when hope is gone?”
Attack. Because you have nothing to lose.
Without creating the idea that there's been a sudden explosion of suicides, there's really no article here.
One conservative failing is the conviction that everything is getting worse, all of the time, and a blind idealization of the "good 'ol days.'
What is interesting is the suicide rate was actually HIGHER back in 1950, time of strong families, prayer in school, before hippies and drugs, etc.
GREAT story, thanks !
Fight (in the literal sense) against the oppression.
That alone will bring back hope.
Our pioneer and pilgrim forefathers had hope in the Lord, not just in themselves or in prosperity. They were by and large faithful Christians who loved the Lord and knew His word. They were strong not just because they were self reliant, but because they did these hard things for God’s glory and not their own.
The Lord would still save this country if people would return their hearts to him. Not that everything would be perfect and rosy and wealthy for everyone, but people would have that inner peace and liberty that comes from knowing the Lord. If we turned back to the Lord and became controlled by him in our inner hearts, and in our outer behavior, he would deliver us.
2 Corinthians 3:17 NASB
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV)
5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
6 in all your ways submit to him,
and he will make your paths straight.[a]
Joshua 1:5-9 (ESV)
Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you. 6 Be strong and courageous, for you shall cause this people to inherit the land that I swore to their fathers to give them. 7 Only be strong and very courageous, being careful to do according to all the law that Moses my servant commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success[a] wherever you go. 8 This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. 9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.”
Isaiah 41:10 ESV
10 fear not, for I am with you;
be not dismayed, for I am your God;
I will strengthen you, I will help you,
I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Isaiah 40: 21-24, 27-31
Do you not know? Do you not hear?
Has it not been told you from the beginning?
Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
22 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth,
and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers;
who stretches out the heavens like a curtain,
and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;
23 who brings princes to nothing,
and makes the rulers of the earth as emptiness.
24 Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown,
scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth,
when he blows on them, and they wither,
and the tempest carries them off like stubble.
27 Why do you say, O Jacob,
and speak, O Israel,
“My way is hidden from the LORD,
and my right is disregarded by my God”?
28 Have you not known? Have you not heard?
The LORD is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He does not faint or grow weary;
his understanding is unsearchable.
29 He gives power to the faint,
and to him who has no might he increases strength.
30 Even youths shall faint and be weary,
and young men shall fall exhausted;
31 but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings like eagles;
they shall run and not be weary;
they shall walk and not faint.
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