I get stressed out from reading about all of this stuff.

26 million views and it'll make you smile too :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY

Perhaps "Generalized Anxiety Disorder," where the person obsessively worries about things. Concern is fine, when you can move on to think about other things, but if it's just constant worrying about this or that, it's GAD.

I keep coming back to some ideas--

(can't seem to let go of this thread and the thoughts that have come)--

sorry to be long, but if anyone cares (one person) it will be worth it.

I don't know WHERE you are or how old or your family circumstances, etc.--religion.

That doesn't matter--

The fact is that when you begin to 'wake up', you begin tor realize that YOU and only you are responsible for your life and your decisions.

Whether you are able to be involved in 'street' activism, holding signs or helping out at town meetings/freedom groups or not, there are things that YOU can do in your 'personal' life (all of life ought to be personal, but I hope you know what I mean) that can really help--

wherever you are--

you may not have a home or a yard, but even if you live in a small place, find a sunny window, buy a pot and plant some herbs or vegetables--basil grows well in a sunny window--
and use it to feed yourself.

If/when you go to a store, ask yourself, before buying ANYthing:

--do I NEED this or just want it?
--did someone unseen by me suffer so that I could buy this?
--what would be more important for me to do with the time I used to earn the money to buy this?

Begin to ask yourself these questions and feel 'empowered' (overused word, but it sometimes works) in your own LIBERTY--

continue with:

--what would happen if the grocery store shelves were empty?
--who makes the fabric that goes into my clothing?
--what if hospitals begin to close or if power outages make it impossible for me to get to a hospital; CAN I make myself healthier, so that I don't need to be dependent upon other people in this way?

THAT said, depending upon other people is not bad, if you depend upon people you KNOW, whom you can also help--

but being angry with strangers if you can't find food or clean water or . . . get gasoline for your car is not showing that you are free at all--

make arrangements so that you won't have to be angry with also-enslaved strangers because you don't have food to eat.

IF you have a yard, plant a garden--

http://urbanhomestead.org/journal/

this is one place that is inspiring. *We* are not as self-reliant as this, but I can look at this site and check off many things I am doing and feel good about them--

IF you have children, question the public school system, and ask yourself why your children are attending there? If you don't have children, ask yourself if you received a truly quality education by attending public schools. If you have children, do everything you can to teach them yourself. If you don't have children, support (even if just by smiling at them) those who teach their own.

Read the constitution. Read it again.

If you are very young and are in college, question the things you are being taught. Ask yourself if you are really thinking for yourself or being 'fed'--

YOU may be very far beyond all of these things, but if you haven't gone this far even doing one little step in each of these areas and then taking it a bit farther another day will give you a feeling of personal responsibility and liberty.

It may take decades (as it has with some of us oldies), but you will get to where you will genuinely see how important personality responsibility and USING liberty are--

Yes, some things do appear to be 'out of our control'--

there are (I believe) evil people in the world who want to enslave us. But FIGHT BACK by taking back your own world, one step at a time--

Get the planter and find some real soil (local is preferred) and buy the packet of seeds and start--

oh, and if you haven't already, TURN OFF the mainstream media--

If you like watching movies, try some independent films. Question EVERYthing that comes out of "hollywood"--

Read good books, classic books--and don't stop--

this is just a beginning, but when you take back your life . . . you can begin to deal with the 'horror' of what is going on in the world--

I also HIGHLY recommend reading about, learning about, travelling to experience other cultures--so that human beings who are not Americans become real to you--

and then read the constitution one more time--

I will stop now.

I hope this doesn't offend *you*, if you don't believe in God, but as you begin this journey (or pick it back up again if have already started it), God bless you.

And, chickens, ah, chickens!!!

Animals are good--

We have all been there and likely will go back and forth. I find doing POSITIVE actions make me feel in control. Preparing for hard times, Positive activist actions like talking to people and handing out information. Taking time away from the computer and being with nature. My chickens make me happy and my family and dogs. I was afraid but now I have resigned myself to the fact we must take it one day at a time and make them as fulling as possible. Live, Love, Laugh in Liberty

and ask that special person in your life for a few hours of their time.