The current state of America for people with mental illness worries me.
There’s a shortage of safe and supportive places to live at in my city.
I am on meds, but for some reason my mind just finds a way around whatever AP I get prescribed. I have probably been on a mix of twelve different meds over the past 8 years.
I try not to worry about the future and I apologize if this post seems so negative.
I guess I am just feeling a little worried today.
Take care, thank you for reading. 
I do to a point, but just getting through the now takes all my energy
Yeah I need to learn to focus on living in the moment. That reminds me of a book I have, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience.
I used to worry about it constantly. Now I still worry about it, but it’s not constant. I think the ‘worry’ part of my brain broke from overwork. 
Hahaha I think my brain is almost to that same point @everhopeful
I belong to God and he is in control of the future so I don’t worry about it. Sounds simple and you have to have some knowledge of God but it works for me.
I’m a disabled afghan veteran who was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2008. It’s been a long and hard road for me to see my own country that I supported and defended in war be reduced to the level it is at now a days.
I try to keep up with the attacks against free speech and know that there are people out there, very rich people I’ll add that just want to see the world burn up and suffer all the time.
Essentially there are a slew of evil, powerful people out there and we have to just not give into the temptation of becoming that ourselves…know what I mean?
(well he’s doing it so why can’t I theory?)
I worry very much about the future and see a vulgar and dysfunctional machine being built and it’s all in the name of making the rich richer.
I’m diagnosed with PTSD so one of the symptoms is believing that I have no future except more bad things happening. It’s gotten a lot better with the right medication (sertraline Zoloft) but I still worry a bit about the things to come. It doesn’t hurt as much though. The sza part makes me very disorganized and that just complicates everything. But I’m doing okay for now.
@neveragain I see what you’re saying about the fate of our country and the machine.
I like to believe that good always prevails, I do believe in an afterlife so I hope things are better in that.
Evil people are always going to be around. Rich, poor and in-between. I try not to worry about my surroundings all the time, so this is just some friendly veteran to veteran talk and it works for me so I hope it works for you.
I know it’s hard to tone down the hyper-awareness but just try as hard as you can.
Take care
Glad to hear you’re doing better @magicmindedman
Take care
Thank you!!!
I identify every person as I drive and am very alert sometimes, then sometimes I turn around and bump into people I didn’t even notice. It just depends on the day I guess and that’s the same with being depressed or having severe anxiety or just having what I like to call a (zero day),
I came up with (zero days) in highschool, where nothing good and nothing bad happened I just felt kind of disconnected and hardly paid attention or had an opinion. I’m alot different now, though.
I often do the same thing. It just gets mentally tiresome for me, so I just do my best to remain aloof to my surroundings. It is a daily struggle though.
Listen, don’t let the anxiety of our future lives prevent you from enjoying life NOW. Try to not let the paranoia get to you. I have to deal with that stuff so often it seems. But when I can talk to other people who go through the same things it really can help me out.
Like, what’s your main worry of the day? Would you want to talk about it?
Thank you for the kind words @neveragain I will take it to heart.
So I wanted to share what Jesus said about worrying not pushing my religion just sharing some wisdom.
Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[a]?
28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Living in the moment has gone some what good so don’t try to predict your future cause it will just let you down
thats for sure 
Very much so ,especially at the moment. A lot has to do with my lack of self belief that I can cope with forthcoming changes and nagging doubts that others can help me through them.
I’m convinced I’m heading for disaster.