Post Election Depression
So you’ve been working your tail off, day and night, working to support your choice and then, after election day comes you are left with loads of time and/or grief. Your candidate may have even won but that doesn’t stop you from winding down that lonely road of depression. You’ve got so much time on your hands and perhaps the burden of having made the wrong choice and investing so much into something that disappeared in an instant.
Perhaps you are just on the losing side and are feeling the pain associated with undesirable outcomes. It’s normal to become irritable, agitated, or just downright depressed if you don’t get what you want. In the case of politics though, you are stuck with four years of the person that you didn’t support for whatever reasons.
Now you are entrenched in a state that neither allows you to function properly nor move on. Welcome to Post Election Depression.
Here at Post Election Depression we have created this site as a fun way to share experiences and stories about elections and also to make available a classified ads page that allows users to try and sell their old election materials. Please use the comments to relay your stories and if things pick up we will create a forum to satisfy the demands of the Post Electionally depressed in an effort to assuage their suffering. Let it all out! There are many like you!
November 12th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
I thought that if my candidate won I would shed the anxiety and fear that I have experienced these last few months.
My depression over what has happened, feeling like my generation let America and the world down, that Obama is just a mortal man who will not be able to solve all our problems continues.
I have hope that “a better day will come” but still feel hopeless and depressed.
November 12th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
Thanks Deborah. Many of us are scared about what will happen in the future and realistically, most of us have done nothing to cause it but live the lives that were given to us.
I hope you can put a smile on your face today for some reason. Pick out something, even a small thing that makes you feel good and go with it. This will be a stepping stone towards relieving the depression.
November 12th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
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November 19th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
I voted for McCain. I pray Obama will do well. I would not want this job for all the tea in China. I fear things to come that are out of my control. Democracy? Hah! We are well on our way to Socialism. This is feel good mentality, brought on by la la psychobable. Wear a helmut/seatbelt or get fined. Turn in your guns, it’s a Martha Stewart Good Thing. But make it accessable for terrorists to get their hands on AK47’s but I can’t have one? Perhaps if 6 million Jews had a hand gun there would not have been a holocaust. Honestly should I go on? I am not a fat cat and do not want a break on capital gains tax, I want government to stay out of my way so I can make my own way…the old fashioned way…earn it.
November 20th, 2008 at 1:39 am
Let’s all hope Obama will do well. Whether you voted for him or not we all need a good president to help prevent us form going backwards as a country.
November 23rd, 2008 at 2:05 am
I’m not depressed as much as I’m disapointed.
I never thought so little (hope & change) could go that far ,,, but then … there is American Idol and Survivor to give me nightmares and … keep me company