How can Google Analytics tell me I'm in Roseville in real-time, while my page views are in North Highlands, and while TIP says Sacramento??? 

Well, I can’t figure the analytics thing out, but I can say that it’s both sad and appalling how many people out there still lack compassion when it comes to those suffering from PTSD, depression or anxiety. I was combing through different blogs/forums on different sites about different people’s experiences. While the response and support vary from individual to individual, I think it’s rather sad that there are still so many people out there who still believe the best way to go when dealing with anxious or depressed people is to just desert them. Just blame them for their problems, tell them to “get over it,” tell them to “smile,” tell them it’s all in their head, and if that doesn’t work and they don’t appear all fine and dandy overnight, just dump them. 

I can see if the person is truly crazy and even more so if they’re dangerous, but unless someone goes through the exact same thing, it seems they are totally compassionless and unable to grasp what it’s like. I never experienced PPD, but that doesn’t make it any less real to the women who have. Brain chemistry and body hormones and other things is a very complex thing. Not the simple, cut-and-dry thing we may wish it was. Furthermore, while most of these issues can be overcome with the proper support, and in some cases medication, things take time. You can’t expect miracles overnight. So and so can’t get over her problems today simply because you’re getting impatient, you don’t really give a shit, and just because you want her to. 

Next time you make fun of someone who’s broke, fat, ugly, emotionally off, in a wheelchair, etc., remember that when it happens to you people just may be laughing at you and call you a hypochondriac who needs to just “pull themselves up by the tail and get on with it.” Normally, I believe in the saying, “Two wrongs don’t make a right,” and have always found it to be rather counterproductive. Not in this case, though. If you’ve ever picked on someone because they were abused, have phobias, nightmares, or any other problem I’ve mentioned here, I hope to hell you DO get a taste of your own medicine, same as I hope the ISIS members are beheaded, slaughtered and simply tortured to hell and back before they are killed. Then again, some people do have the same problems they rank on others for. It’s why they’re called hypocrites. I guess the psychology behind it, from what I’ve heard, is that when they see a part of themselves they don’t like in someone else, they lash out at them, thus lashing out at themselves in return. 

Yes, we need to get on with it and do the best we can do in whatever situation we’re in in life, but I highly doubt it helps some of the people who are in certain situations when no one seems to care or all they can do is make jokes of it. Not everyone’s lucky enough to have the kind of support like I have in Tom and those are the ones I feel really bad for. If you’re with the wrong people when you’re happy, you can become miserable. If you’re with the wrong people when you’re miserable, you’ll likely become even more miserable. 

Saying someone who hides their depression is a sign of strength is such a crock! Did people ever stop to think that maybe they hide it because they know how many ignorant, compassionless people are out there waiting to make them feel even worse? People with emotional problems don’t usually need to be led through life by the hand – they’re not all crazy or incapable – but they don’t need to be discarded like defects either. Everybody wants to stand out, make a show of themselves and be different, but God help anyone else that’s different than them. Well, when you get home from work or school, instead of going on and on about yourself, why not take the time to care about others as well and ask them how they’re doing instead of just assuming they are how you want them to be? 

When we were in Carl’s Jr. the other day, not one person working there was from here. Diversity may be interesting until it starts getting to be overkill. Just wish we could put the American back in America, ya know? They say they come here for more opportunities, but in doing so they rob those that are from here of opportunities.