... 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?

Stop reading -and believing- the Guardian would be my top tip. And stay out of your confirmation-bias bubble until you get your sense of proportion back.

I realise this sounds harsh: but you say you're not into drama and then post an overly dramatic post. There's really no point wasting emotional energy on things you cannot control. We'll cope -we have to. And it'll all be the same in 100 years. I voted Remain - and we lost. Now, we have to get on with things, get the best deal we can - and be bloody grateful we're not Greece. Or Italy. Or Spain. Chin up, shoulders back, head high- and deep breaths.

The island can sink under it's own thick, racist delusion for all I care

Make sure you stay away.
Don't come running back when you're old and decrepit and 'living the dream' isn't working out as you planned.

dangermouse

See posts like yours frighten me. My friends dd was beaten up in her new Scottish school because she had a 'posh English accent' why are you spouting racist crap like all Wngkish people are smug and nasty.

It's horrible behaviour.

English people

Personally I think the EU is finished anyway, I see a domino effect happening once we leave

This.

I'm not coping at all, just replacing depression with anger at the ignorant/empathy-deprived arseholes crashing threads and going round chanting 'it's not all doom and gloom you know' when actually that is exactly what it is. For me, Brexit is a direct attack on what I believe in (peace in Europe), a vindication of Farage's xenophobes, and also a very personal assault on my family (mixed nationality, lived and worked in both countries).

I would love to remain in the EU too but you do need to get some perspective on this.
My DH got a British passport and we are just getting on with things. We are in a better position than many countries.
I work for a French company and things are ticking along nicely. This may change but what else can you do?
Things will of course be different, but it isn't cataclysmic. We cannot ignore a vote such as this and Theresa knows this.

brickin you may be sure lots will come scurrying back when the feee health care is needed.

How odd twatty, I was about to post much the same comment. I abandoned the Guardian long ago because of how hysterical the reportage is. Instead I read the ft once a week on Saturday to get a balanced view of what's happening. I also emailed my favourite financial columnist, Merryn Somerset Webb, to ask her opinion of how things are going, and she sent me a very reassuring email back. Probably very shallow of me, but it did the trick.

Stop reading -and believing- the Guardian would be my top tip. And stay out of your confirmation-bias bubble until you get your sense of proportion back.

Ah now, this pisses me off. I took your advice ages ago- opened up my reading, deliberately stepped out of the bubble. Months of paying as much attention to the Telegraph and Times etc as the Guardian has not made me feel even the slightest bit more positive about Brexit. In fact, leaving the bubble has made me feel far worse.

If you are someone who is pleased or neutral about Brexit, that is of course perfectly fine, but sneering at and being dismissive of people who feel very, very negative about it is just vile.

brickin you may be sure lots will come scurrying back when the feee health care is needed.

That's what usually happens.

The island can sink under it's own thick, racist delusion for all I care

Nice Nothing like a bit of hyperbole is there.

I wish I could move back to Scotland just because I feel so out of place here, and I don't like the way England is going

That's fine, however a member of my family was spat and shouted at during indy ref in Scotland for being English.

spring you do realise that its attitudes like yours in labelling brexiteers as thick empathy deprived arseholes actually led to this situation don't you?

remember Gordon Brown and his elderly lady nemesis.

I'm not coping at all, just replacing depression with anger at the ignorant/empathy-deprived arseholes crashing threads

So people who disagree with you are ignorant, empathy deprived arse holes. Well aren't you a delight.

I didn't vote leave. It's not what I wanted but comments like this are vile.

Touched, have you considered looking at something other than the papers? The LSE blog is good.

I feel that looking at other papers just makes us aware of other people's bubbles, rather than better informed. And all the different bubbles are worrying.

do you want a brew actually I endured racism from English people for that portion of my childhood that I spent in England so I find your comments especially offensive. Included physical violence, violence directed towards my parents, vandalism etc.

People saying "go back to where you came from" got tiring after the first 5 years.

Luckily my accent has now got 'anglicised' enough that people no longer ask "to speak to an English person" if I answer the phone.

…and I wasn't saying I despise all English. I actually really like England but there are certain people of a certain mindset and who have a particularly aggressive way of talking that really, really grate on my nerves. Very much, "you want some? eh? eh?" type of speak.

No piglet & brew, I am angry with the ones who are arseholes!

There are many people who are celebrating today and that is their right. What makes me angry is when they come to threads designed to offer comfort to those who are horrified at brexit and tell us are feelings are not legitimate because theirs are different. It takes a minimum of humanity to recognise that some people will feel differently. So why not leave them alone on this difficult day? Why the need to intrude?

So why not leave them alone on this difficult day? Why the need to intrude?

So it's ok to call leavers thick, stupid, uneducated etc but the remoaners don't like it back?

Op, a troll by any chance?

If you are genuine, then just have a nice glass of red wine tonight, look to your friends, read about stuff that makes sense to you, read sensible newspapers. I don't mind reading junk from the DM etc it just makes me laugh. A real lesson on how to press the self destruct button.

We will survive, even the most liberal of us.

Maybe the op should have posted on the EU Referendum thread then? AIBU isn't the place if you want uncritical comment

And yes to the 'can I speak to an English person'! I thought I was the only one who got these comments...

So why not leave them alone on this difficult day? Why the need to intrude?

So why the hell post in AIBU?
That doesn't sound like the actions of someone who 'wants to be left alone'

myschool I'd be using my best telephone voice too!

True enough about posting in AIBU! But I would have thought the title made it clear who it was being addressed " for those who are devastated about Brexit"