ELECTION COMPULSIVE DISORDER
from Claire’s Corner
It is true, I have it. And I have had it for a long time. I can’t seem to get rid of it. I liked it for a while. I needed it to sustain myself. Now I can’t get enough of it and I am not sure that it is even good for me because I feel anxious and a little sick all the time. But I an hooked. I’ve got, ELECTION COMPULSIVE DISORDER.
I know that I am not alone in this disease and it does help to have the company. What’s incredible to me is how wide spread this disorder is. Women have it but so do many men. All races are afflicted as well as all ages. And it appears all across the country. It started out slowly, about two years ago. The primaries. I got infected right away. So many of the candidates were good. They were smart and had a lot of sharp ideas. I had to read about them and listen to them. Plus, it was in the air all around you. You couldn’t escape the condition even if you wore a mask or ear plugs. Then there was the scale of things. This was going to be historic and I was going to be a part of it.
Everywhere you went people were talking about it or writing about this situation. It still consumes the airways. People that I hardly knew before became like doctors to me. They told me what was right, what was wrong. They told me what to do and what not to do. I had new heroes in my life. It was imperative that I become an active and intelligent advocate of my own condition. I did it all. I listened. I read. I worked. I spent money. I tried a couple of alternatives before I settled on the right prescription for me. I got totally consumed.
Now I just want it to be over. I want to rest. I want to feel healthy and hopeful again. I want to sense peace and quiet again. Of course I want the medicine that I choose to work for me to be the right one and for it to win out and make me whole again—–because the last thing I need is for this to turn into a chronic condition.
Claire Callaway, blogger for In the Trenches Productions.Com, The First Entertainment Network for Women Over 40 on the web
