American Thinker: Years of media-driven hysteria about imaginary global warming have taken a toll. Every hurricane, wildfire, and heat wave is blamed on the “selfish” industrialization of mankind. One woman describes how the reporting has driven her to the edge of madness:
My stages of grief
I didn’t know it then, but that first year I spent reading policy papers, I went into mourning. I skipped denial and went right to shock. I floated around on a dark, dark cloud. I frequently and randomly burst into tears, and I’d refuse to admit to myself that I knew exactly why I was crying.
When I was around bustling crowds of people, I saw death and destruction. When I walked on dry land, I saw floods. I imagined wild animals, especially snakes, getting out of the zoos in the aftermath of natural disasters.
Imagine all the snakes and elephants and zebras roaming around city streets after a global warming disaster!
Then I went into depression. My social life turned into fits and spurts of intense engagement followed by equally intense withdrawal. I was deeply afraid of telling even the people closest to me what I knew and why I was so scared. I couldn’t sleep. The crying fits continued. They didn’t become more predictable.
No more predictable than the weather. MORE
A young friend, recent college grad but liberal long before college, posted an article with this headline today:
UN Says Climate Genocide Is Coming. It’s Actually Worse Than That.
I can see why they are depressed!
I was reading something last week (I read a lot, so I can’t remember where I saw it) that at the height of the Cold War in the 1980s, during the Reagan years, a lot of us had nuclear annihilation on our minds, too. But that was real. There were two world nuclear powers who couldn’t trust each other. The film “The Day After” aired while I was vacationing in Oahu and it damn near ruined the final days of my vacation because I couldn’t drag my mind away from those horrible images and wondering just how easy it would be for someone to make a mistake. Okay, I was in my twenties and impressionable, and I knew nothing about politics.
All to say, I can actually empathize with someone whose imagination has taken over regarding a global disaster. When the media is hell bent on covering up the facts and there seems nowhere to turn for them, no one rebutting what the media reports — what’s a person to do?
She says that global warming hysteria caused her mental illness.
She means that global warming hysteria is her mental illness.
@AA – I would say there is more rebuttal now than ever. But only if you ‘cross to the other side’ of media and actually think about it. I think most conservatives do – of course it’s hard to avoid the mainstream. But liberals have to go out of their way to read opposing views, and I think most don’t, my lib friends refuse to even look at articles on ‘Faux News’, Breitbart, etc.
And then Election Day hits and they are dumbfounded!
Woman describes how her mental illness caused her to buy into the global warming hysteria.
Thar, Ah fixed it!
Leftists. Always making excuses for their mental illness.
When will it stop?
You are fucking sick. I suggest immediate psychiatric care.
If only there was some online way of scamming more money from U.S. for their psychological consoling.
Taking Bucks from Uncle Sam for shady Persian Plans.
A Console Console Council.
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I’m so nervous about all the ditches I’ve driven into, that I’ve got to drink.
This lady is wacky. What she should be worried about is the sun making all the oxygen on earth catch fire.
Burr,
Was thinking about that too.
Could be a Sunday Sunday Sunday at the petting zoo.
Found a cooler full of home cookin’
Ummm…….
People…I’m as clueless as you are. All I can tell you is that I’m really, really popular with the down trodden.
I’m being stalked by Unicorns … I can’t see em, but I know they’re there … at.
It turned me into a newt
I got better
Joey,
Look over there. >>.>>.>>
SQUIRREL!!!
@Aaron Burr:
What we have heah, is a failure to…tread down sufficiently.
” I was deeply afraid of telling even the people closest to me what I knew and why I was so scared.”
She didn’t bother to “know” enough
in checking her politically poisoned sources. Driving herself nuts using
information garnered from other nuts
is her just reward.
Media Hysteria has been ruining everything since the late 50’s. Avoid the Media, avoid mental illness.
At least she and her ilk are less likely to reproduce. That’s good, according to their own dogma. Less CO2! Hell, we’ll be skiing in no time…
Don’t be afraid darling, we have a safe and warm space for you with comfort toys and such, so don’t be afraid of soothers and comforters in hygienic white coats carrying trays of pretty little white sweets for you suck on.