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I can't stop thinking a huge war is coming

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To the point I have thought Jesus was talking to me, and I would be a martyr'd in my back yard to stop it. Politics is so bad, I know it is coming. A huge war in America. It doesn't matter if I watch politics or not. Where I live. I have a generator I did not need. I keep trying to make empathy in my shitty town so they weren't murder the minorites when it comes. It has been years now and I wish it would go away. But it keeps getting worse. I can't watch the world around me go to war over nothing. Everyone savage. And the town is in trauma. They will go savage. I am not angry. I can't fight. Sometimes children's eyes glow telling me I have to stop it. How can I stop it from starting? There is no counselling. Or denying the possibility. I
Need a coping technique I can do myself that makes me feel enpowered somehow. Maybe several times a day.
 
Hi there.

Can you talk about this with a psychiatrist, Sarah?

People live in and through wars of all sorts through decades, and survive them. And find and ditch lovers, raise kids, raise grandkids, change fashion three times over, get new jobs, get fired, make really badass gardens, make art, make even censored art out and well, troll the most cruel regimes, laugh, live to the fullest.

And? Wars don't really turn people savages, either. Just assholes that woulda been savages even without the fricking war. But not most people. A lotta people get the opposite. More helpful, more kind, caring, loyal, fierce. Because the conflict already claimed so much and I'll be damned if it takes my soul too, attitude.

So look for THAT. The good. The care. The trust. The love.

That IS how you get through the big and scary, too.
 
Hi there.

Can you talk about this with a psychiatrist, Sarah?

People live in and through wars of all sorts through decades, and survive them. And find and ditch lovers, raise kids, raise grandkids, change fashion three times over, get new jobs, get fired, make really badass gardens, make art, make even censored art out and well, troll the most cruel regimes, laugh, live to the fullest.

And? Wars don't really turn people savages, either. Just assholes that woulda been savages even without the fricking war. But not most people. A lotta people get the opposite. More helpful, more kind, caring, loyal, fierce. Because the conflict already claimed so much and I'll be damned if it takes my soul too, attitude.

So look for THAT. The good. The care. The trust. The love.

That IS how you get through the big and scary, too.


There is no help here from professionals.

I tried to think of WW2. 95% of Europeans lived or more.

I need a movie about war where lite war happens. Is the Book Thief good? I have it and never watched it. But it sounds like a positive experience of war.

In Swing Kids how does it end? Because I forget now. It was a long time ago I watched it.

I listened to a podcast about a possible war in America by a conflict journalist. He said much of what you said. And that sometimes depressed people thrive and get highly functioning.

I need to tell myself that.
 
Yeah, I think it mighta be healthier for you to not watch / read / research anything war related.

I'm a vet. On/off working conflicts. Engaging conflicts when not working them / teaching, activism, what have you.

And so many times? All I need to do is have a good laugh at smartass Tweety is. Amazing Snoopy coffee designs. Collecting stamps. Enjoying smoothie taste. Watching the skies. Gaming. Trying recipes I'll 100 percent burn. Babysitting. Pet sitting. Trying and failing at caligraphy. Bitching about old albums.

Stuff like that. War or no war.
Cause the shit worth caring for? Is elsewhere.
 
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Yeah, I think it mighta been healthier for you to not watch / read / research anything war related.

I'm a vet. On/off working conflicts. Engaging conflicts when not working them / teaching, activism, what have you.

And so many times? All I need to do is have a good laugh at smartass Tweety is. Amazing Snoopy coffee designs. Collecting stamps. Enjoying smoothie taste. Watching the skies. Gaming. Trying recipes I'll 100 percent burn. Babysitting. Pet sitting. Trying and failing at caligraphy. Bitching about old albums.

Stuff like that. War or no war.
Cause the shit worth caring for? Is elsewhere.

I can barely watch a movie. I have been in literal acute trauma 2 straight years every day. I think about this hours a day, every single day.

It is terrible. I do need to do anything else. Trying to be outside more. Walk my dog. I don't have a single person, let alone a friend. Or job. The internet is gone soon. So that will help.

Music distracts. I volunteer, abusive fellow volunteers. The city dying of a meth epidemic.

You are totally correct. I don't want to keep watching war movies. But I need to truly believe that hope is possible. I keep thinking people are going to liquidate the native reserve. The town would probably do it if a phone call came saying "do it".

Really my pychosis or fear is about "that". Been here 6 months in his city 100 miles from anywhere. The cops themselves and bunch of rednecks would do it. While I gather whoever will stand against them.

I need to sell this house and move. I guess it is more specific. I tried to bring empathy here. And like the old people hate everyone, everyone else is in trauma on meth or literally just obey orders. Those that work. Work like they need the job and have a master.

I am a pacifist. But I will die before anyone rounds anyone up. Lead whoever will stand against it. Let then kill me first and measure whether they all want to continue.

I think about this... all the time. Not in a I want a fight. Or I want to die. Or I want to be a hero. Of war comes I will become fully alive. Maybe I fear that I will go savage to stop it. I never held a weapon. Thrown a punch since I was 17, 27 years ago. No one is putting anyone in a camp while I live in this town or anywhere near me.

And the reality is.. no one seems like they are like me. At all. It is not the hate, it is the apathy. The town litters like it is decades ago. They just don't give a f*ck, even about themselves. I apparently give all the f*cks. It is not even my city. They would let it burn. Not everyone obviously. But I have been trying to feel "safe". I can see my America and Canada are getting like they are. I can't believe so few people seen to care about each other. And I was always around trauma. I guess I always cared. I was the parent to everyone and scapegoat. My family ran me out of my city. This new one is so shitty. One of the worst. Realizing that after a month, made me feel like I needed to save the city on so many levels. I was already depressed, lonely, in acute trauma that thank god has been going down.

I am going to take your experience and believe that people will surprise me. Act better. Or I join the natives and fight assholes or better flee and hide in the woods. Or hopefully move, or obviously there is no war.

I am stuck in that one thought. Rounding people up into camps. And people letting it happen. A hot war would be better for my spirit. A slow genocide is not something I can pyschologically handle. Emotionally my family tried to that to me.
 
I think you would help your recovery dealing with what your family did to you, sounds they did a number that hit you deep, and then everything else people did to you personally.

Cut abusive environment like job to the most you can, too.

Once that's sorted? *Then* worry about societal evils and the big causes.

Not saying it to diss you either...
The closest to home, oldest, most unresolved, most aching? Worst weapon against you, and/or to make you one, against those you hold dear.

Therapy ain't for pussies that wanna wallow in nothing. It helps people be stronger. Against their fears, most of all. Good schtuff, that.
 
I get what you are saying about America - it is downright scary around here these days. But a quick history lesson -- this isn't the first time we've been so disjointed and hateful. McCarthiesm in the 50s and civil rights in the 60s are other times that Americans were completely at odds with each other - and yet we made it thru. Even though many thought we were headed for another civil war. So we may not end up going down that road.

In the meantime - your goal is to help right? And to find others who want to help? You may just have to look in another direction.

This may be way off base -- but have you thought about volunteering to help prepare people for whatever might be coming? Most towns have Emergency Management offices that are always looking for help teaching people how to live thru disasters - which can be everything from a war to a hurricane. It's basically the same skills and it would give you a chance to work with people who actually give a damn.

Just a thought...
 
I get what you are saying about America - it is downright scary around here these days.

Side note: my daughter-in-law got her information sent to her by the U.S.Army at 3 a.m. this morning. She's prior Army. A guy that she works with got the same email, too. No instructions yet.
 
I think you would help your recovery dealing with what your family did to you, sounds they did a number that hit you deep, and then everything else people did to you personally.

Cut abusive environment like job to the most you can, too.

Once that's sorted? *Then* worry about societal evils and the big causes.

Not saying it to diss you either...
The closest to home, oldest, most unresolved, most aching? Worst weapon against you, and/or to make you one, against those you hold dear.

Therapy ain't for pussies that wanna wallow in nothing. It helps people be stronger. Against their fears, most of all. Good schtuff, that.

I understand. Yet there is NO therapy. No health care. No support groups. No job. Not a single friend. No money. No income.

I get banned on quora, reddit etc. I worked through tons of stuff already.

I know everyone is always meaning to be helpful. I have realized it is not just me in a dying town of 16000.

Saying "get help", therapy whatever... is impossible... for half of people. It does not exist or is so bad that it is worse than none. Competent pychologist can book in April. A life coach made an appt, and called me back and said she "did not want to hurt me" by seeing me. Too much trauma. A physio would essentially not see me in person. Kept trying to calm me down. When all I wanted and needed was to get her to feel my back and sides and tell me if it was stress and inflammation or injury (that is better 2 months later.) I am actually much better. The 12 steps in this area. NA and AA have like a dozen members total. I tried volunteering. It triggered me worse.

I have books. All the best books. Pete Walker and so on. I almost am calm enough to deal with that. I was almost murdered in May. In a pysch ward. I should never have been in. The week I sold my house, because my brother told a judge I was going to kidnap his kids. I did go to 2 addiction groups at the hospital. I tried to file a police report here by phone. They would not let me talk to an officer. 19 minutes on the phone and a swat team and ambulance. No lie. I told them to go away, I don't want to go to the hospital. They went away.

My life is hell, but better, but I am a mess. There literally is no therapy. No possibility of it until I move. See a real estate agent this week.

Now... I have been told to "get help" online amd in person maybe 200 times in 6 months. When there is no help. I have a dog. I can't risk a 72 hour hold. Apparently after calming down for 21 months in a row, people think I need a pysch hold. And I think... I could not talk in March 2018 or remember February.

It sucks because so many people are like me. Saying. Get help or therapy is like really triggering. I understand, I used to do it. Now I understand, how delicate that is, because many have no options. They are in a PTSD forum like this because this is the ONLY place there is to go. I tried everything. And got much recovery.

I mostly did deal with my rage and family crap. Tried to start "living" but this city, I am only in because I literally could not drive any further and just wanted anywhere I could buy a cheap house and not be in literally FLIGHT.... in a car with everything I own. But in too much trauma and pain to drive.

Then the province would not give me a health card for 2 months. Because I bought my house with no mortgage. And no job. I needed an electric bill that took 2 months. I stopped to get immediate health care. Denied. A deed and a passport, every ID you could imagine. Only one document with my address. I had to wait 2 months. If I had debt or a job. Would have got it right away. 8/9/10 visits to government office. Every single one a new PTSD episode. Lost my faith in Canada completely. They want me dead, really. And anyone that is not "normal" or wealthy.

All this enraged me. Now... truly, I fear a massive war, and I realize everything sucks and no one cares. Idiocracy will get us this war. I was so lonely. Now more ok with aloneness. I fled to safety and got more abused, while doing or trying to do everything right. I was not even poor. Now house poor, but not poor.

If you are poor... you are f*cked. Completely in this world. No one cares. It is awful. I care. What is wrong with everything? I should say f*ck everything. But I care even more, to fix what I can. Or I fully lose faith in humanity. I should be the leader of a country. I don't want to be. But I give a f*ck. So like this politics and talk seems awfully likely to happen. If it quacks like a Hitler, and that many people want it, and no one stops it. Then it will happen. My family are malignant narcs. Reality does not stop them, they just lie. They break every rule. No one stops them. You try, they get the police to lock you up in a place where the doctors and nurses are more dangerous then the patients. Been a forensic pysch ward? I had my house closed. A week away from freedom. Happy with plans. 43 hours later of a 72 hour hold, having seen pure evil in a male nurse who is likely a serial killer.

This since June.
 
You say no one cares... but you do, that's someone. :sneaky:

You already got you, a good start... so how do you get yet someone else, wherever you are? << Is where I start whenever no-exit looking situation. Build from there.

And? Some times the least resistance *is* most.
 
I get what you are saying about America - it is downright scary around here these days. But a quick history lesson -- this isn't the first time we've been so disjointed and hateful. McCarthiesm in the 50s and civil rights in the 60s are other times that Americans were completely at odds with each other - and yet we made it thru. Even though many thought we were headed for another civil war. So we may not end up going down that road.

In the meantime - your goal is to help right? And to find others who want to help? You may just have to look in another direction.

This may be way off base -- but have you thought about volunteering to help prepare people for whatever might be coming? Most towns have Emergency Management offices that are always looking for help teaching people how to live thru disasters - which can be everything from a war to a hurricane. It's basically the same skills and it would give you a chance to work with people who actually give a damn.

Just a thought...

McCarthy was a drunk. Roy Cohn, the lawyer, was the brains behind Joesph McCarthy. Later he made a young Donald Trump into "Donald Trump" in the 1970's and early 80's. Gave him the only book anyone has ever seen him read too. A book of speeches by Hitler.

Truly the Manchurian Candidate! And Eisenhauer who managed Churchill, FDR and top Generals in WW2 could not condemn McCarthy, spoke out about the military-industrial complex at the very end of his time in office.

I could eugenics from the 1920's and Prescott Bush leading to Hitler, and HW leading the CIA and the crack epidemic being about eugenics of blacks.

Bonus.. the lack of action on Aids to kill Gay men (and black men and all of Africa) killed Roy Cohn too! A self hating Gay man and Nazi got left to rot by Trump and the GOP in the 1980's.

My guess the USA's endless middle East wars are to make dehumanized American troops to fight within America, as much as to make Private armies for today's Eugenicists and End of Days folks like Eric Prince and Betsy "good stock" Devos. And of course arm the arabs and Israel to the teeth to make Revelations happen. (Again... they happened in 80 AD) Christian Dominionist Eugencists (Bush Family plan... 3 generations deep, 5 Presidencies... ) now 6 but Trump is a wild card. An insane Hitler no one can control but Putin. Yes America sold out to the Soviets. Now allies of the GOP. And they all have a child rape island! For blackmail of everyone... even Bill Clinton likely. They stole the 2000 election too already and 2016.

None of this is a conspiracy theory. It is widely known public knowledge I am off the cuff writing here from memory. Missing much.

So yeah... things are really bad. I am in Canada. I guy here running for MP used the recruitment email address on the Canadian equivalent of Craig's list. BahamasIce@ Literally a genocide email address. God wants dead black people from Hurricanes and Canada to have camps for minority children? I emailed this public email, canvassing for volunteers in a Federal election, nazi grafiti in downtown I had been trying to get the city to paint over a week before I saw this.

I said I won't ever let the town forget he went Nazi. 6 cops including a swat team over 3 times at my house. The candidate stalked me before this too. In an insane rage that was so over the top it was more funny than terrifying, taking pictures of my house.

Then no media would even return my calls or email. No politician. I contacted everyone... dozens and dozens of people. No response at all.

Lots of PTSD. A month of it. Yesterday the first cop that came rolled slowly by my house as I shovelled my driveway and eyed me. Terrorized me on purpose. Did not trigger me. But he tried to threaten me. 3 months later.

I need to move. Because the cops are fully Nazi. In New Brunswick Canada. He got 3.4% of the vote for a far right party that got 1% nationwide. Best total of 300 ridings for the PPC party except the leader.

I feel so much better now. I lived in fear of my family. I took on the cops and a Nazi and kept going. I am a badass.

I do not want any of this. They want to genocide the Natives here. 2500 people, living right here.

It is real in Canada too. No one had my back. No one. Not even left wing advocates, anti-hate groups. Not a f*cking person had my back.

The apathy is worse than the fascists.
 
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