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[quote=Anonymous]Like OP, I am generally operating with cognitive dissonance just so I can get through the day of getting my work done and getting the kids to activities and making dinner. We’re a dual fed/fed contractor family so the anxiety is thick. In the worst of times I spiral and envision losing our home and everything we’ve worked for.

This week I broke down at the uncertainty of it all. I’m having escape fantasies — not really wanting to die, but wishing for a way out like an accident where I can go be in a coma for a while and then wake up to a giant settlement from whoever caused it and news of impeachment. Yes I know it’s crazy, but my brain is desperately trying to find a way out of this.

I’ve been job searching and networking like crazy, but the economy around here is in the toilet. The fact that many summer camps that generally fill up quickly still have spots is a soft sign of how we’re all doing. The fact this is all being done purposefully to hurt us makes me so angry, like our own government betrayed us after we devoted our careers to the public. And there’s no light at the end of the tunnel, so it’s not like well if I can just grit though the next X months it will be ok. Instead it’s just bleakness and probably going to get worse. Every day I learn of another friend, neighbor, etc. losing their job and I just know we can’t all live off savings forever. [/quote]

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