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