... for those who are devastated about Brexit, how are you dealing with the fear and depression and anxiety?

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Has anyone got any strategies? I am genuinely not one for melodrama, but I am devastated, angry, terrified, depressed, and I feel so utterly helpless. Nothing in my lifetime has made me feel like this, and I just can't imagine feeling like this for the next two years and beyond. I can hardly bear to listen to the news, but I feel compelled to anyway. How are other remainers dealing with this, what are your coping strategies? And what, if anything, can we DO?

Ok, I must have imagined it then. The pound fell. Prices went up. Relationships between between families and friends have deteriorated. Racism and hate crime went up. Relationships with our neighbours in the UK and Europe are deteriorating. Respect from the rest of the world is deteriorating.

Livelovebehappy - have you had your head in a bag for 9 months?

Obviously TM couldn't predict that Brexit would win the vote. The majority of people thought Remain would win the vote, and most of the Polls indicated Remain would win the day. So you think TM pretended to be a Remainer, because she thought she was unpopular so people would then vote to Brexit? Really?

I work in Defence, we are absolutely fucked! What is the RAF's biggest expenditure? Fuel! How do we pay for it ? Dollars! Pound to dollar ratio?
If the pound flatlines as it is now, we are in serious trouble!
What new capabilities are we buying ? F35's from where? Yep USA in Dollars!

Making Britain Great again! My arse!

I knew that brexit would win. I also knew that Trump would win.

I don't know TM's exact reasons for pretending to be a remainer. I just know her views and demeanor don't tally with that of a remainer. I didn't believe her for a minute at the time and I still don't. I don't trust her for a minute. She's a snake.

TeamRick when The Donald reforms NAFTA and the UK have a good trade agreement with the US we will be fine

Relationships between families and friends happened solely because those who voted Remain felt so bitter about the result that they chose to fall out with anyone who didn't agree with them. Not nice, but you can't blame Brexit for that; just the behaviour of unpleasant entitled people not getting their own way. Haven't seen any deterioration between us and our friends in Europe, apart from with the EU senior polititions who can see the wheels coming off their gravy train. I have friends in other European countries who treat me exactly as they did pre Brexit. Why wouldn't they? And where is there any evidence that we have lost the respect of the rest of the world? Examples please.

I have political discussions with friends about brexit and our friendships are just fine

Namechange you aware they aren't the real subs right?

I know that, but it's so funny I couldn't resist.

Find your own examples, they are everywhere in plain sight.

Don't get why you've chosen that particular link namechange? It's just a very old clip, where someone has put subtitles on it which doesn't relate to what they're actually saying. It could have been anyone setting this up on YouTube; even a UK based random Remainer. Not the best example to prove we have lost the respect of the world.

I just feel sick most of the time tbh. We have family, in their 30's, who have EU partners. Two cousins live in Europe with their husbands and dc. Two other have EU partners here in the UK. These are all relationships of 10+ years with children. My Neice (dual UK/US citizen as she was born in US of British parents, but brought up in UK) has DC whose df was an EU national, they have his nationality. The dc have been brought up in the UK. The dc cannot have British nationality because their dm was not born here. Will these teenagers, in uk schools, with English as their mother tongue, get sent back to a country where they have no contact with their df?

Forget about money, jobs, defence - this uncertainty about REAL PEOPLE'S LIVES is horrific - and my family is just a microcosm of the problem.

We have had our rights taken away from us and I'm pretty pissed off about it.

Apologies that was a bit of a rant as I've had a drink but blimey people are so naive!
Even Nigel Farage banging on, on Daybreak about the benefits of a weaker pound!Honestly what planet is he on?
We're going to lose people & capabilities because of Brexit, our Armed Forces will be weaker and they are already stretched to breaking point because of 'austerity'.
But at least we got our Country back hey!
Sigh!

I feel like I live in a country I no longer recognise, really. All the best values we had - kindness, decency, etc - chucked out of the window.

Back on the first page, someone said:

You can go back less than 100 years to a time where people were being bombed out of their homes and they managed to deal with scary, unstable times whilst still being positive and hopeful.

I think they're missing the point. People like Johnson and Farage - people who support Brexit - have a lot of beliefs in common with the very people we were fighting 1939-45.

Oh nonsense. You have more rights than anyone

Missswatch oh thank you that's really put my mind at rest, everything will be ok!
Phew!

That was to lifegavemelemons. But have a teamrick

I was actually replying to your comment about our glorious future trade deals with Mr Trump!

I'm going back to watching Pirates of the Caribbean, there's a reason I haven't posted on any Brexit threads and I've remembered what it is!
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Someone better tell Theresa the Appeaser that Trump's biggest motto is "America First".

The country did not suddenly change in June 2016.

The vote was an indication people were unhappy with the current state of affairs. No one suddenly became rude, mean, cruel or prejudiced.

Perhaps some people would have preferred the question never to have been asked so they didn't have to listen to the answers. But ignoring a problem doesn't make it go away.

Joffrey Absolutely but you're wasting your breath! Honestly!
It's all going to be wonderful, Mr Trump will give us fuel to fly our planes & defend the UK, he'll make the F35 affordable for us!
Steel will be cheap as chips, our manufacturing industry will thrive and your lawn will be deep in unicorn pooh!

TeamRick, I think you're right. Let me just line up these pigs on the runway. They're ready to fly.

I deal with it the same as the Tories and trump. Hope enough people will vote better next time!

It's only a matter of time till the young campaign to rejoin. People will see they have been shafted.

Might not come to that as parliament can still vote it down, I think..? Maybe there will be some unforeseen political development that could force May to go to the country before her 2 years are up, or some other tory will do the dirty, like they did on Thatcher... I'm trying to be hopeful that this rubbish could still be stopped in its tracks.

Not just the young, btw. I'm in my 50s and only know one person my age who voted Leave. Every single one of my old uni contemporaries, husband's workmates, all my friends I know of, voted Remain and were vocal about it, too.

We should all relax.

Something tells me it's not going to happen.