Anyone else in a funk because of the Deep Horizon disaster? I just can't get out of it.

[applegrove]

I feel so powerless (I have a history of being powerless). I didn't even go through the anger phase but strait to feeling like I'm in a funk. It must be my meds.

[HillbillyBob]

1. I feel like I m on the downside of Epinepherine after

a bout with anaphylactic shock (been there often enough)

[sharesunited]

2. It is a terrible toxic poop into the environment. Lots of living things hurt, people included.

What you need to feel better is context in terms of cosmic disaster.

Look at the wikipedia articles on the Big Bang birth of the universe and their article on antimatter.

Search articles on poising and death.

You can get your mind around this to survive it.

Back the government's efforts to keep BP on the case and compensating victims.

[rudy23]

3. It's the realization that no one is on our side that's depressing me. Not Obama, not local reps

Literally everybody except for "we the people" who are suffering the aftereffects are paid off by big oil.

[corpseratemedia]

4. i feel sad for the creatures and mammals..and angry at stupid powerful cads

......sorry about your history - :hug:

crisis=hopefully some kind of opportunity will come

[Cetacea]

19. You must be referring to the mammals not being reported?

Come to think of it, you'd never know that the sea turtles will probably be wiped out. It's all "beaches, birds, and shrimp."

[philly_bob]

5. Party of "Drill Baby Drill" blaming it on Obama. (nt)

[roguevalley]

6. he's allowing drilling anyway so he has a seat at that table too.

I am sick for the animals and people affected and the land. Poor Gaia.

[philly_bob]

9. It's a distinction between deep-water and shallow-water drilling.

I think Obama's now allowing shallow-water, not deep-water, drilling. The current Gulf gusher is miles deep -- to deep to be easily fixed. It was the Republican deregulators who allowed deep-water drilling.

So Obama may have a seat at the table -- but it's Cheney's table.

[xultar]

7. I feel like I did after 9/11. It is like a combo of disbelief, shell shocked, and heartbroken.

:cry:

[Robbien]

8. That's it Exactly

:grouphug:

[XemaSab]

13. You got it in one

For months after the terrorist attacks, I remember just going about my business, then all of a sudden it was like "ugh."

Just a sudden, demoralized wave would come over me. That's what I'm trying to fight off now. :(

[azul]

10. I'm still in a funk about the Santa Barbara mess.

What funked me out was all these cars buzzing by just feet away from me there alone on a beach with hundreds of be-fouled dead birds and animals pulled up on the sand and rocks.

Finally got my electric car and solar panels going, and now this same old avoidable sadness.

[csziggy]

11. I'm feeling shell shocked

9/11, the 2004 hurricane season here in Florida (including losing an online friend to Ivan), Katrina, Wilma, the tsunami, all the earthquakes, the economy tanking, and now this. Personally in the last ten years I have had a number of major operations and have not really been ably to get back to normal after the last two. Add to all of that my disappointment that Obama is not able to get as much done as I had hoped (for whatever reason - that is another discussion) and I will not be willing or able to work on campaigns this year.

I am just tired.

[Kablooie]

12. I may try to avoid news (and DU) for awhile since I can't do anything about it.

I don't know if I can drag myself away, but I want to try.

[marions ghost]

14. Funk is appropriate

What's not normal is not to feel it and pretend like it's not happening.

You may have done all you can do from long distance already. No better time to join and support an environmental group, esp one working in the Gulf directly. No better time to advocate clean energy. To even be posting on DU is an act of participation, witnessing it, talking to others about it, keeping the vigil. And it is a vigil. Waiting for the country to finally wake up, see the downside, the negligence, the corruption. Face reality (which of course people always resist).

But disaster fatigue is real.

[Mari333]

15. Ive been feeling like that for 9 years.

Im just too tired for words.

[Johonny]

25. yah pretty much

[The2ndWheel]

16. We were able to do something like this broken pipe deep underwater

because we've done things like this before. It's been a progression. I'm no more in a funk because of this than anything else.

[old mark]

17. ag, my sister lives near Galviston, TX and she is distraught that their whole

area will become a wasteland, especially when the storm season comes on. I am still amazed that people are taking this thing so lightly - it is a major disaster that is hardly begun and will last for generations.

mark

[mimitabby]

18. I feel terrible too

but i believe we are all part of the problem us, with our big houses, our cars and our air conditioners.
I am heartsick about the poor innocents that are dying. it's bad.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

20. here I am crying again---just at the thread titles here

about the animals. I'm not going to look at any of those threads; the imagery would stay with me for too long. Wouldn't do anyone any good----ah god, the poor innocent creatures.

why do we human beings pretend to love animals, nature, beauty so much, yet never fail to kill and destroy them because our relentless needs and overpopulation come first?

kill them all and name products after them.

:cry: :cry: :cry:

dammit. I better go, I'm a mess again now.

[CTyankee]

21. I'm still angry. I am furious with the republicans NEVER owning up to the

to the fact that they are wrong on EVERYTHING. The economy, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, gay rights, abortion, evolution...and now THIS!

I'm sick and tired of always being right and being told my the MSM that I'm "out of touch" with the mainstream.

I really need to go beat my fists on some pillows to get the anger out of my system...

[blindpig]

22. Get angry

Stay angry. Explode. We have every right to that. IMHO anyone not spittle spitting, foam at the mouth angry is somehow defective as a human being.

Kill Capitalism

[Voltaire]

26. Indeed. . .

KILL CAPITALISM! I would use this oil rig disaster as my weapon to destroy the entire filthy, inhuman, UN-human system.

[FLPanhandle]

23. I've transitioned from Anger to Depression myself.

Booms are going up today around the panhandle.

[Individualist]

24. Very much so

I alternate between depression and anger.