Feeling Depressed? Worried That Trump Will Win?

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47. People think not being hopeful will help them. It actually hurts them.

I go shrink now and again and I will now.

The limbic system is primitive. An imagined threat creates the same stress chemicals as a real one. Likewise created optimism and pleasure creates the same endorphins and boosting chemicals as real pleasurable or successful events.

The first makes us vulnerable to an array of ills from heart problems to rapid aging to addictive behaviors, and more. It makes us fight when we can’t flee. We often fight with the wrong people.

The second helps us bond together to strengthen one another and spread out the load. Over time we seek others out and create bonding mechanisms like art and music for when we actually can’t be together. It also helps us rally our forces to create what we want and need. It’s hate’s worst nightmare.

At this point doing whatever practical we can to influence the election is good. Doomwatching will not make anything easier. Just the opposite. It takes away our bonds and our hope, just as though we are already lost.

Don’t do that to yourself. Four days. Be strong. Be optimistic. Don’t let them have you.