It does not take some long and drawn out scenario to permanently destroy your good mental health.

All it takes is something traumatizing to your emotional well-being, even it only lasts as briefly as a minute.

Given that, and knowing how this works from personal experience, I grieve for the children being held.

When I was in the first grade, I actually had anxiety about moving onto the second grade. You know how it is when you are a kid...stupid things look scary. Second grade work was more difficult. The teachers were sterner. More was expected of you. So now I am trying to imagine how I would have felt at that age if I was removed from my parents. I couldn't even handle moving to the second grade.

My father died when I was age 11. I still feel the grief, and the FEAR. What if my mother dies...I will be an orphan. Where will I go?

Life can be scary for children. What these young children are going through is a million times worse than anything I could have imagined.

And it has, and will continue to mess up their minds in ways most of us won't be able to relate to. Also, something that is not being talked about...they will be pissed-off adults. They will be susceptible to radicalization. They will hate the US, and rightly so. And by the time Trump is done, there will be many more than there are now. For what? To keep his "base" fired up?

Fuck Trump with a rusty meat hook.

God help us. The country is sick.