http://www.crisispapers.org/Editorials/depression.htmThis is a great article from last year. It covers these types of depression being experience by our nation.
Economic DepressionSNIP.."So, what can be done about this coming economic depression? We can take a lesson from the Great Depression of the 1930s. When the situation got bad enough, the citizenry woke up and finally put the blame where it belonged -- on the "leaders" and their rotten policies. They focused their anger, elected progressive candidates, threw out the old crowd, and began climbing their way back to a "new deal" for the American people."
Societal DepressionSNIP....." I don't think I have to describe what I mean here. You and your friends and associates and colleagues -- all of us -- are affected by the
general anxiety associated with a world seemingly spinning out of our control, with little we can do (so we're led to believe) to alter the situation for the better.Terrorists are coming to get us, the rest of the world is unbelievably angry at America, the economy is in sad shape, there's no money for education or anything else, you may not have a job next week, your kids' after-school programs have been eliminated. Not even the election system is in your control; you cast your ballot for candidates and, even though they may have received the highest vote total, someone else assumes office, either appointed by a political faction on a court or through some hanky-panky in the software-programming for those computer-voting screens."
Personal DepressionSNIP..."A number of therapist friends report that their clients in the past several months -- not just liberals but conservatives and middle-of-the-roaders as well -- are experiencing virtually identical symptomatology as folks attempt to deal with heightened fear and depressive anxiety.
What you and I and a lot of others are feeling these days may not be full-bore clinical depression, but there are some troubling similarities."
SNIP..."Deep down, we know as we beat our heads against the wall of indifference and repression that, in the foreseeable future, all our pain and suffering and hard work will pay off.
This group of illegitimate U.S. "leaders" is so filled with itself, so cocky in its arrogant bullyboy approach to the world, so over-reaching in its haste to grab what it can get, so confident that its lies won't matter and that its outrageous behavior will not be opposed, that it is walking on the red carpet of hubris. Its downfall is inevitable, its days are numbered, regime change is in the air."I remembered this from last year, and it is right on the button.