In Atlanta, a friend of mine lives near to some synagogues, three of them. On the same street, are a Sunday Assembly and a couple of churches… guess which buildings have fences around them…
Fuck tornadoes and storms. Praying for friends with destroyed homes and businesses in south central KY and elsewhere.
That’s easy, haven’t had any in years.
don’t forget blue sky soda, barq, smart water, desani, minute maid, hi c, topo chico, honest tea, costa coffee, sprite, segrams, schwepps, vitamin water, powerade, ugh. im sure the list goes on. and on.
i wish the stock ticker stamp of every publicly listed company getting significant profit off a product was required to be stamped on the box ( or can, as it were )
oh! and tab
Or like the way Mexico now stamps any product high in refined sugar, sodium, and calories with a warning label (exceso azucares, etc.) – which is pretty much any processed product on the shelf.
Just add another stamp, “excessive profits”.
Hmm. will have to find a new tonic water for the G&Ts.
That’s fairly easy.
Boring dystopia
Right?
JFC…
With video:
I have just realised that I can’t remember the last time I was happy. It isn’t a covid thing, I was already struggling before then and 2019 wasn’t great.
I’d call it clinical depression, but most of my problems are external and I know that I have had brief moments of happiness while depressed.
Please seek treatment if you can. Clinical depression can present that way. It might only be the external factors or both. One pernicious aspect of clincal depression is an amazing ability to find things to blame. Even untreated depression doesn’t completely preclude feeling happy sometimes. Also, situational depression can be treated too. Take care of yourself!
I’m so sorry… reach out to a friend to get some support. And listen to @anon23281680’s advice, as it’s solid.
It’s pretty much pointless. I have been trying to get treatment for PTSD for years, but I end up in an endless cycle of being referred to the wrong clinic who aren’t trained to deal with this.
I am just another statistic of the institutional transphobia within the NHS (one of my external problems).
Fuck today indeed. I am so so sorry you shouldn’t have to endure that
For what it’s worth, and I know that in the end these are just vaporous 1s and 0s, I really enjoy reading your contributions to BB. As someone who lived in England for a bit, I very much value hearing your perspective on American politics, on the UKoGBaNI, and on the world in general. You make this small corner of the Internet a better place. Hang in there!
Have you tried looking outside of the NHS? These days, there are more and more options for online counseling and you just might be able to find a licensed private practitioner who knows what they’re doing and with whom you can work at a rate that fits your budget. Perhaps even in a different country.
Regardless of whether the causes are external or internal, pervasive feelings of unhappiness are not something that you should have to live with. I hope that you can catch and hold onto the little moments of joy in your life when they come, and I hope that they will begin to come more frequently.