There are powerful people so high on the drug of proximity to power they are selling their souls to go along with this. On some level they know what’s happening, but to stand up and speak out entails courage they have not yet summoned up within themselves. History will record whether or not they do.

Bake the following into your psyche for optimal mental health:

- You are NOT your thoughts.
- You are NOT your emotions.
- You are NOT your sensations.
- You are NOT your experiences.
- You are NOT your circumstances.

Instead, you ARE the oberver of these phenomena.

I suffer from depressive episodes at least once a week.

The major themes:

- "You are a piece of shit!"
- "What's the point of all this [life]?"

Here's how I work through them...