We Asked, You Answered: How HuffPost Readers Are Handling Their Election Anxiety
It's 2:30 a.m. and here I am writing this. Just kill me now. The extreme level of anxiety that many of us are experiencing over this election is serious enough that medical journals, in the near future, will almost certainly give it a name like "Obama Syndrome" or Barack Obsesssive Disorder."
I am heartened that there has been so much discussion of the malady on HuffPost. That's got to be therapeutic for a great many of you. Not me, however. Some great recommendations have been made. Double your meds. Get involved with the campaign so you feel less helpless. Turn off the TV, radio, and political websites. Get back to nature by activities like camping. Your kidding me right? I tried antidepressants and they made me worse. I went from low functionality to comotose. So that's out. I can't get "involved" because I'm lazy. Where are the cures for lazy people? That comment may offend some of you. Sorry, but lazy is a real condition as debilitating as any other mental condition. You can't do anything to stop being lazy because you're too lazy to try anything. It's like the old "just say no" campaign. You might as well ask me to just stop breathing...
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Apparently not so good.
This is what happens when you force an unnatural belief on yourself through sheer will; such as the blind faith in believing that a foreign-born Arab Muslim Communist will win the Presidency of the United States.