President Obama keeps saying to 'move forward'. Can people please stop being so depressed?

[Deja Q]

It's contagious. Like syphilis. Been there done that anyway. Not syphilis, depression.

Leave the media to say what it wants. That's how they make their money. That's all they care about.

[aquart]

1. What did you say?

Couldn't read your message. There was this head bobbing in my face making me dizzy.

[Coyote_Bandit]

2. Ummmm......

Aside from the fact that some very kind souls here at DU gave me some hearts I can't think of a good reason not to be depressed. I'm well educated, long term unemployed, late 40s with something resembling non-existent health care, getting no direct benefit from the stimulus package and over recent months have seen my savings depleted by nearly 20% thanks to the market implosion. So far as I can tell the light at the end of the tunnel is the train that will finally kill me.

[blues90]

3. I feel much the same way.

The way I see it I am now 60. There is nothing to re-train for and I am un-employed and on disability.

Whatever comes from this stimulus package will not help me and I have to face the reality that this is all for those people who are young and their children. My days are over other than to hope my wife and I can keep going with little we have.

I have no control over this enormous freight train of horror we are now faced with. I am just glad we don't have children to try to support .

In reality with all the young people who are far more advanced than I it this new high tech driven society which is part of every job now who are out there looking for a job no one is going to pick a 60 year old guy.

I'm glad I made it to this point but I'm sick of the internal worry that never seems to go away.