I would like to reflect upon the amount of strength that my fellow human beings possess and how incredibly intense it must feel within each and every individual.
The situation has beyond reached a boiling point, it's overflowing and the pot is melting.
With that said, I feel the need to talk about anger:
Anger is created is from an expression of fear that then was suppressed, ignored, or met with anger.
When we first experience fear, if it's not addressed in a healthy and open dialogue, it never actually goes away. It may be lessened by time or circumstance but it stays with us. If we then experience fear again, and if the outcome is the same ie; a negative reaction without reinforcement of validation, we will begin to question ourselves and every/any action we are faced with thereafter. We begin to believe an inner narrative that has been hardened over time through the inactions of our families, an inner narrative which is merely seeking to be seen as valuable enough to be felt. Now I think it's important that I share my own personal experience, I think it would help individuals who were not affected in this way..
I had this happened to me throughout my childhood and it was done by my own mother, who withdrew from motherhood and was unable to love, neither herself or her children. What I can clearly see and understand now as an adult is that she had postpartum depression, she did not have a clear diagnosis, approval or validation to be herself, and these inactions became the very breeding ground for the horrific behavior she would exhibit towards those she loved. Alcohol then became the...