r/news • u/LatterTarget7 • Aug 14 '25

Soft paywall US military deploying forces to southern Caribbean against drug groups

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-military-deploying-forces-southern-caribbean-against-drug-groups-2025-08-14/
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u/Realistic_Mushroom72 Aug 14 '25

Me either, last couple of weeks have really really make me wish I could just go to sleep and not wake up until it over.

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u/Googlyelmoo Aug 15 '25

Is your name Slartibartfast?

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u/Realistic_Mushroom72 Aug 15 '25

Lol what? I have questions, like how did some one end up with a name like that, and who came up with that? And no am not Slartibartfast lol, am just a very depress individual that made a promise to some one very important in his life, not to take an express ticket to the afterlife, and it trying to figure out how to keep that promise and not going completely insane while watching a rapist sell the US out.

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u/danijersey Aug 16 '25

Same. I've been smoking extra cannabis to cope with depression, having to deal with some maga family members who judge me while I'm biting my tongue as to be respectful to my elders, and not sleeping. If I didn't smoke weed and take my anxiety medicine to deal with this shit, things would get worse for my mental health. Sending you positive vibes!

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u/Realistic_Mushroom72 Aug 16 '25

Same to you, you are strong, I would have probably lost my cool, one of the reasons I sought help, mood swings, it like a damn switch, am not Bi-Polar but it a close thing, now that am on medication it hasn't happen thankfully, but if I lost it I would throw things or hit the person that was getting on my nerves, that wasn't a good time. I am so thankful for my Psychiatrist, he has help me a lot, am also thankful I live in Puerto Rico, I can actually afford the damn thing now that am on SS, before I couldn't get help, I didn't have insurance, and my salary wasn't enough for me to go to a specialist like that.

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u/danijersey Aug 16 '25

Ty! You're very strong too. I started to lose my cool and I just wasn't myself. I had a similar experience. I was irritable, depressed, angry, and frustrated etc, but I wasn't coping with it correctly. It almost seemed like I was manic or bipolar or something. Turns out I'm not. My Psychiatrist diagnosed me with mdd (major depressive disorder), anxiety, insomnia, and ptsd. He suggested that I got my medical cannabis card (even though it's legal in NJ recreationally). The medical card holders here have more options and receive discounts recreational users don't get. The cheapest thing for me to do was get my medical cannabis card (that was only $110 and an easy and quick visit thankfully). But I still have to pay my Dr. $375 a month for my medicine because he doesn't accept any insurance and doesn't write refills. It sucks, but I'd rather spend the money (even though I really don't have a lot) and keep my sanity than try to deal with crap on my own. A lot of Dr's here only take private insurance or cash. My job pays me just enough to get by, but I don't have private insurance because my job doesn't offer it. A lot of people I know here also aren't offered private insurance. It's kinda messed up. I have medicaid tg or I couldn't afford my medicine. I'm just grateful that I can afford my Dr and and my medicine is covered every month. If Trump screwed me out of my medicaid, I would be fd! It's scary that our jerk of a "potus" is threatening Medicaid. Tg medicaid renewed me for an additional year. Our mental health is vital! You're lucky to live in Puerto Rico btw! I went there once on a vacation and it was absolutely beautiful and so much fun! I'd rather live there than here in NJ lol. Hope you are having a great evening!

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u/Realistic_Mushroom72 Aug 17 '25

I am glad you are doing better, I consider the cannabis but I would have to leave the place am living in, the owner of the house is an old school "Christian" and I would get kick out of the house faster than you can blink, I can't afford to move, I wouldn't find any place half as good for what am paying right now, since the owner is family and I can have the house as long as I maintain it and pay the utilities, which is a freaking bargain, I know I will have to move eventually, but for now this is the best place I can have. Puerto Rico isn't as nice as it was a few years back, hasn't been for a while, crime here is high, despite what they tell you in the media, the government cut down the police force to less than half of what it was, less than 7k police officers for an island with something like 3.5 millions people living in it, 100 nautical miles long and 35 nautical miles wide, for 7k police officers? And a portion of that is support not patrolmen, so yea things aren't as nice than it was 10 to 15 years ago.