[ClearCase_guy]

I've been saying this for a while -- suicide is way up in this country. If someone is feeling depressed and hopeless, and if they happen to blame "the authorities", then suicide by cop may seem like an option. Or, if such a person is just driving around and runs a stop sign and gets pulled over, they might make a split second decision to just "have a blast" over pretty much nothing.

Much of the country is hovering at the brink.

[cripplecreek]

I’m exactly the opposite way. The worse things get the more calm I become. I just feel a need to keep an even keel in stormy seas.

[AlexW]

“Much of the country is hovering at the brink.”
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Yes, America, now USSA, is going to pieces.
I am so thankful that I left before we had even heard of Obumbo.

[ctdonath2]

One theory is: antidepressants give some the focus, courage, and wherewithal to actually do what they were too down to attempt.

[donna]

It's the meds everyone is taking. We have stress and worry so we take pills to get happy - but, its the stress and worry that keeps us from doing the crazy things we are thinking. The pills remove our governor.