It's a very stressful time for us all, as a nation, as a family, as 
members of the world community and then add extraordinary individual 
burdens.....and yeah it's disturbing. I read about this new therapy 
in one of the national weeklies called ACT or acceptance commitment 
therapy. It sounded interesting even helped in a parkinson's study 
with balance.
The idea is you say to yourself I am having the thought that my job 
is stressful or I am having the thought that I am irritated. It helps 
put it in perspective I guess. He also says its ok not to be happy. 
Depression is sometimes the only way we can deal with grief, sadness, 
or some deep emotions.

At 05:58 PM 2/13/2006, you wrote:
>I'm stressed out these days because of my job so maybe it's a sign of
>the times when I get irritated at the press for making such a big
>deal out of Cheney's shooting a fellow hunter.  I am a ardent liberal
>as most of you know, but I think it's ridiculous that a big play-up
>has been made of the shooting.  It was an accident, for cripes' sake,
>and there were no serious injuries (thank goodness!)  It's my
>impression that the guy who got shot didn't yell out a warning or
>anything, so the blame is not entirely Cheney's.
>
>In fact, the only really big deal I can see about the whole thing is
>that Cheney didn't have a valid hunting license, and it seems to me
>that that'd have been a staffer's oversight.  I mean, I can't see
>Dick Cheney himself taking the time to get a new license, can you?
>He's got a staff to check on things like that.
>
>Of course, it could be that I'm too easily irritated these days!
>
>Kat