[Reactions ? now and stretching into the future ? are likely to include anxiety, irritability, depression, anger,] all the emotions, intensified, ... Maybe guilt. I survived and friends and family members haven't. Why did I survive and not others?

Bridget's anger evaporated and the sadness came back. The anger was easier. She owned and controlled it, whereas the sadness owned her.

Closeness eases the anxiety and depression of believing that no one really cares about you. It softens the frustration and anger that come with feeling that no one understands you. Suddenly, others become available to us. Suddenly, we feel better inside.

It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive, but it is best not to stir things up to the point at which forgiveness is required. When you are depressed, you need the love of other people, and yet depression fosters actions that destroy that love. Depressed people often stick pins into their own life rafts. The conscious mind can intervene. One is not helpless.

I just want to be free. I feel like i’m stuck in a prison with no escape. I just wanna get in a car and drive to god knows where. Leave all the things I love behind and just go out on the open road. I want to find myself. I want to escape from this war that I have going on in my mind. I just want to be happy.

I don't see a partisan component to this. I see a certain anxiety. I don't see an anger to the point of blame but people, when they experience pain, want the people they've elected to provide solutions ... Solutions are very limited in a country that believes in free markets.