I have been suffering from minor depression since August all because of the news, I'll give you an example of what I looked at. Politics Syria Worse of all... World War III One day it became too much to the point I had to go talk to my school counselor about it. My counselor was a military veteran, he is a very cheerful guy and he told me that he hasn't watched the news in 20 years, which he said it made him a happier man. This guy doesn't seem to not stop smiling, I'm not even lying. Yah, I know we are going through a lot of world conflict right now, like a lot, especially in Syria, and once I started looking at the news I was scared. I couldn't say it to anyone because they might think I'm stupid. What's even worse is the whole World War III thing, the news tells us (especially UK ones) it's going to happen. yah US and Russia can't get along , but that doesn't mean we will nuke each other, we are just going to have A LOT of disagreements on how to deal with Russia (though it's basically Obamas fault). I'm going to be honest, I am scared of [i]Death[/i] though I know regardless we will die of old age, etc. My friend basically had to calm me down 2 times, using knowledge to his advantage such as how Vietnam ruined the media, and how he is more scared of the clown thing then the Russians. Which made me feel better in some way. I decided to have a talk with my brother currently stationed in Texas about this, he told me "it's quiet in the office, like always, so nothing is really happening right now" which made me think I had better things to worry about then something the news say will happen. Though I am still somewhat depressed, I cannot get it out of my head, I have to think about my future and what career I want to pursue. I decided to post this here in the forums because for some reason you guys are actually realistic in some way and we can agree on some things. At the moment, I am still recovering, trying to find out how to deal with this, but not reading the news is the best way to go. EDIT: don't take this too seriously, is not shutting my self out of the public forever, just until I get my head straight, and I don't care about the politics and crap, but the WW3 thing scared me to death, though I know no country is stupid enough to start it, my head still tells me I should be scared, though over nothing EDIT (again): I'll be leaving B.net for a while, basically until I recover, I have an appointment with a therapist this Saturday... goodbye everyone