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Depression and Anxiety at an older age
Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: May 26 11:44am | Replies (625)Comment receiving replies
I am 72 years old and am experiencing a lot of anxiety about what has and is happening to our beautiful wonderful country. The United States seems to be currently run by a bunch of incompetents who are ruining our country, the country my father took 14 bullets for in WW11 to protect our freedoms and liberties. Now this elected and un-elected group is spitting on and doing things that are killing off the very foundations and principles of our country based on the strengths of the rule of law, which is being exploited, bastatdized and trashed by these people....I fear beyond repair. I feel helpless and feel stuck on the ship of my dreams that is sinking....how can I feel better? Is there anything I can do to assuage this onslaught of fear and anxiety?
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I think a lot of people share your sentiments, pami.
I have friends all over the political spectrum (we have to agree not to talk politics!), and everyone seems to think "the other guys" are ruining the country.
My solution is to throttle way back on news stories. I remind myself that their job isn't to inform, but to make money, and they do that by keeping people scared so they'll keep watching.
Being disabled, there's not much I can do anyway, so I try to stay informed, but that's it. In the past, I amused myself by creating humorous/ironic memes, a couple of which went almost-viral, but I haven't done one in a while. Now I just behave like a good citizen. I vote, I encourage others to do so, I obey the law, and I prepare as best I can. The rest I leave up to God.
I just hope things hold together until my wife and I are gone, because the Fall of Rome will look like a day at the beach compared to what's coming.
As for the anxiety, it's like living in tornado country (which I do). You know it can happen, but you don't let a potential disaster spoil the joy of living.
There is still love, and goodness, and gentleness, and peace in the world. Lots of it. Embrace it. Share it. Create it.
Most of all, there's hope. When Pandora loosed all the evils into the world, Hope remained.