Well, I join you all in hanging in and in standing strong. I am 76. Everyday I wonder what changed SO drastically that the anxiety hanging over my head is like having a helicopter hovering over my skull. It isn’t mental illness! That would be an easy and profitable
diagnosis for the already primary non-care group.
It is the culmination …
Well, I join you all in hanging in and in standing strong. I am 76. Everyday I wonder what changed SO drastically that the anxiety hanging over my head is like having a helicopter hovering over my skull. It isn’t mental illness! That would be an easy and profitable
diagnosis for the already primary non-care group.
It is the culmination of years of rigging the middle class out of the picture. The most naive know that the happier people are in their own lives the more able they are to move forward in and around in their own communities .
Our obsession with “more” and “bigger” is as useful to a sane society as having a diet of sugar and alcohol for the obese.
Bigger “Big Business” without fair and meaningful regulation does not improve a society . Playing to win can be a motivating factor in anyones game plan, but without boundaries and
( dare I say the word) laws to protect all of our rights we have no society. We have what we have today... a mirage of what it can be and a genuine epidemic of mental anguish.
We also know that saying “ any old thing you want to” without boundaries and without integrity leads to chaos.
Being held accountable for one’s actions is an historic and accurate measurement of a sane society.
Are we actually willing to give our country over to the social media crazies who can and will say anything ( without payback) in order to cause frenzy throughout our lives? These are the questions we know the answer to.
Our healthcare has been going down the “portal potty” for way too long. The AMA ( union kids) keeps the study of medicine in the high salary end of career choice. Years ago the President of the Harvard medical school said 9 out of 10 medical students were there to get rich, not to care for anyone else.
Our mental health dear friends who are suffering is not a physical ailment but a result of a society built on “ get more, get bigger, run over everyone else and flip the finger to everyone who asks for accountability. Character, morality, integrity.... those are healthy morally and mentally ingredients to a healthy society.
America isn’t a great place to live, it is a great place to come to rip off and to cheat and to then take your money and hide it in a “great place to live”!
Sorry, but I am not blaming this crisis on my mental health. Healthy people feel it more because we know what sanity looks like.
Thanks for sharing all the important feelings. We must pull together and right this ship before we drown.
This is part of the reason why older people are legitimately becoming depressed. We came out of a time of societal & environmental changes for the better & the promise of much more to come. But it slowed down, stopped coming altogether & is now in reverse. Wonderful people like Robert Reich & Bernie Sanders have been advocating for a better society, environment & future for most of our lives, accurately warning about our worsening crises in climate/environment, healthcare & economic injustice/wealth & power disparity, etc. & prescribing sensible solutions, but the political & corporate PTB ignore if not disdain them & we keep getting worse. So after a half century of this, no wonder people are giving up hope!
I’m doing what I can to right the ship with canvassing, writing postcards, donating and being part of this great newsletter! Also being a Poll Worker November 8th,
Jean, what a great testimony. You are right, we know some of what we can do to make things better, but there are always the folks with out the moral compasses that generally guide people, who seem to get positions of power all over the place. Maybe one thing we older people can do is to keep calling out those chaos brewers and limit where their words can spew and to whom. We need Congress to help with this. So, we need to vote for people to represent us who actually care about our nation, not just the riches they can steal from us.
Well, I join you all in hanging in and in standing strong. I am 76. Everyday I wonder what changed SO drastically that the anxiety hanging over my head is like having a helicopter hovering over my skull. It isn’t mental illness! That would be an easy and profitable
diagnosis for the already primary non-care group.
It is the culmination of years of rigging the middle class out of the picture. The most naive know that the happier people are in their own lives the more able they are to move forward in and around in their own communities .
Our obsession with “more” and “bigger” is as useful to a sane society as having a diet of sugar and alcohol for the obese.
Bigger “Big Business” without fair and meaningful regulation does not improve a society . Playing to win can be a motivating factor in anyones game plan, but without boundaries and
( dare I say the word) laws to protect all of our rights we have no society. We have what we have today... a mirage of what it can be and a genuine epidemic of mental anguish.
We also know that saying “ any old thing you want to” without boundaries and without integrity leads to chaos.
Being held accountable for one’s actions is an historic and accurate measurement of a sane society.
Are we actually willing to give our country over to the social media crazies who can and will say anything ( without payback) in order to cause frenzy throughout our lives? These are the questions we know the answer to.
Our healthcare has been going down the “portal potty” for way too long. The AMA ( union kids) keeps the study of medicine in the high salary end of career choice. Years ago the President of the Harvard medical school said 9 out of 10 medical students were there to get rich, not to care for anyone else.
Our mental health dear friends who are suffering is not a physical ailment but a result of a society built on “ get more, get bigger, run over everyone else and flip the finger to everyone who asks for accountability. Character, morality, integrity.... those are healthy morally and mentally ingredients to a healthy society.
America isn’t a great place to live, it is a great place to come to rip off and to cheat and to then take your money and hide it in a “great place to live”!
Sorry, but I am not blaming this crisis on my mental health. Healthy people feel it more because we know what sanity looks like.
Thanks for sharing all the important feelings. We must pull together and right this ship before we drown.
This is part of the reason why older people are legitimately becoming depressed. We came out of a time of societal & environmental changes for the better & the promise of much more to come. But it slowed down, stopped coming altogether & is now in reverse. Wonderful people like Robert Reich & Bernie Sanders have been advocating for a better society, environment & future for most of our lives, accurately warning about our worsening crises in climate/environment, healthcare & economic injustice/wealth & power disparity, etc. & prescribing sensible solutions, but the political & corporate PTB ignore if not disdain them & we keep getting worse. So after a half century of this, no wonder people are giving up hope!
I’m doing what I can to right the ship with canvassing, writing postcards, donating and being part of this great newsletter! Also being a Poll Worker November 8th,
Jean, what a great testimony. You are right, we know some of what we can do to make things better, but there are always the folks with out the moral compasses that generally guide people, who seem to get positions of power all over the place. Maybe one thing we older people can do is to keep calling out those chaos brewers and limit where their words can spew and to whom. We need Congress to help with this. So, we need to vote for people to represent us who actually care about our nation, not just the riches they can steal from us.
Yes . Totally need Congress to hear us! Vote and vote like we never have… that means knowing state representatives. Good for us.
Yes! Vote
Thank you for your thoughtful (and needful) input.