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Mental Health Support

Tobin S.

(10,420 posts)

1. It can be frightening sometimes.

Reply to Denninmi (Original post)

Mon Dec 17, 2012, 05:26 AM

Dec 2012

I've stayed silent for the most part on the issues of the past few days. I've served on more juries since Friday than I did in the past month it seems like.

Very few people are thinking rationally right now. They just know that a terrible thing has happened and they want something done about it right now. That's pretty much the wrong state of mind to make big decisions in. We'll see if our leaders respond in a calmer way.

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I'm outta here, just for a few hours, too damned depressing over there. [View all] Denninmi Dec 2012 OP

It can be frightening sometimes. Tobin S. Dec 2012 #1

They call us unstable, but some of them are losing it right now. Jamastiene Dec 2012 #2

Good morning, again. Denninmi Dec 2012 #3

Oh, yeah, listening to 'Tre' by Green Day on my headset. Denninmi Dec 2012 #4

I'm getting tired of all the med freak-out threads. I've tried being the voice of reason, but GreenPartyVoter Dec 2012 #5

There are a lot of UNDIAGNOSED people out there far more out of it than any of us. Denninmi Dec 2012 #6

Well, that's extreme. How about everyone wear a letter for whatever their crap is. We get GreenPartyVoter Dec 2012 #7

Ah, remember, Hester Prynne turned it around 180 Denninmi Dec 2012 #8

True, but I think it's just not doable. Think how many letters we will have to string together to GreenPartyVoter Dec 2012 #9

Well, at that point, no one will able to decipher it, Denninmi Dec 2012 #10

Absolute goobledygook! GreenPartyVoter Dec 2012 #11