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[crimycarny]

13. I have a sort of double whammy

The 4 year anniversary of my son’s death (suicide) is coming up on 4 years next week. My son and I talked politics ALL THE TIME. Mostly him reading up on things and getting outraged or upset. He was a “Bernie” vote in the primary in 2016.

So I’ve got my son’s loss combined with the daily barrage of catastrophic news after catastrophic news.

What I started doing, which is so hard (for me anyway), was to tune out of all news, all social media, and watch “feel good” movies based on true stories. “Flamin hot” about a janitor at Frito Lay who came up with the idea of flamin hot Cheetos. “Air” about Nike (Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Jason Bateman), whatever will distract me in a good way.

I think a lot of people are where you are. This world doesn’t make sense with evil winning, even thriving, and good people suffering. 71% thinks the US is out of control under Trump, 71%!!

. Nightmares are awful because you feel the same emotions as if it actually happened. I definitely understand