YatPundit’s Pub #2 – Dealing with anxiety and stress

<p><a href="http://yatpundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/yatpundit_logo1.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-272" src="http://yatpundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/yatpundit_logo1-300x87.jpg" alt="yatpundit_logo1" width="300" height="87" srcset="http://yatpundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/yatpundit_logo1-300x87.jpg 300w, http://yatpundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/yatpundit_logo1.jpg 356w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a></p> <h3>YatPundit&#8217;s Pub &#8211; Day 2 of Trumpworld</h3> <div id="attachment_406" style="width: 235px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://yatpundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/2016-11-10-11.40.47.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-406" class="size-medium wp-image-406" src="http://yatpundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/2016-11-10-11.40.47-225x300.jpg" alt="yatpundit's pub" width="225" height="300" srcset="http://yatpundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/2016-11-10-11.40.47-225x300.jpg 225w, http://yatpundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/2016-11-10-11.40.47.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-406" class="wp-caption-text"><em>Entrance to the Labyrinth at Audubon Park</em></p></div> <p>Our second pod from YatPundit&#8217;s Pub. Today, some thoughts before I walked the Labyrinth, then some comments on mental health and taking care of our people.</p> <h3>The Labyrinth</h3> <div id="attachment_407" style="width: 310px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://yatpundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/2016-11-10-11.41.23.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-407" class="size-medium wp-image-407" src="http://yatpundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/2016-11-10-11.41.23-300x225.jpg" alt="yatpundit's pub" width="300" height="225" srcset="http://yatpundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/2016-11-10-11.41.23-300x225.jpg 300w, http://yatpundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/2016-11-10-11.41.23-768x576.jpg 768w, http://yatpundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/2016-11-10-11.41.23-510x382.jpg 510w, http://yatpundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/2016-11-10-11.41.23.jpg 800w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-407" class="wp-caption-text"><em>The Chartres Labyrinth at Audubon Park</em></p></div> <p>We&#8217;re fortunate to have a Chartres-style labyrinth here in New Orleans, located uptown, at Audubon Park. If you&#8217;re not familiar with labyrinths and their applications, Veriditas, the Labyrinth project, has a great <a href="https://www.veriditas.org/New-to-the-Labyrinth">getting-started page</a> that will help orient you. One of the things I try to do when I go out to Silicon Valley to teach is to go into San Francisco and walk the labyrinth at Grace Cathedral. I prefer the outdoor labyrinth there. So, take a look at Veriditas and their work, and if there&#8217;s a labyrinth near you, perhaps it will help you eject some of the anxiety and stress in your life.</p> <h3>Taking care of friends</h3> <p>Anxiety and depression are all around us since Tuesday night. It&#8217;s important we take care of friends and family. The group that worries me most are what I call &#8220;social media self medicaters&#8221; &#8211; folks who have serious issues with anxiety and/or depression, but aren&#8217;t seeing anyone for it. They come onto platforms like Facebook and try to talk out their issues, but that can backfire. Facebook can be a dark and scary place for some people. Therefore, we don&#8217;t need our friends who already have issues talking to people who will exacerbate their problems.</p> <p>This is a challenging situation, since it&#8217;s hard to simply tell someone to stay off social media. Also, a lot of folks right now have legitimate concerns, since crazed conservatives are making up wish lists of things from the last eight years that they want to undo. Same-sex marriages and Obamacare are high on most of those lists. This crap isn&#8217;t something our friends need in their lives.</p> <p><strong>Take care of your people!</strong></p> <p>NOTE: In the pod, I mention an incident in Lafayette, Louisiana, involving a Muslim student at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. The young woman has admitted to the police she <a href="http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2016/11/student_fabricated_report_she.html" target="_blank">fabricated the story</a>.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="http://yatpundit.com/2016/11/10/yatpundits-pub-2-dealing-with-anxiety-and-stress/">YatPundit&#8217;s Pub #2 &#8211; Dealing with anxiety and stress</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://yatpundit.com">YatPundit</a>.</p>