1.  Stop what you are doing, especially the stuff that starts down the road to the depression-spiral.  You know what those things  and those thoughts are.

2.  Put on your coat, go outside, and take a nice, long walk.  I'm talking about two hours or so.  Push your pace a little - don't maunder along.  Put the troubles out of your mind.  They will still be there when you return.  Concentrate, instead, on looking at and really seeing the scenery as you go past.  Ask yourself questions about things like love, beauty, loyalty, family, etc.  As to each of those topics, the questions should include one about "what does it mean to me" and another about "how can I express it better".

3.  Once you've aired yourself out and returned to the house, making a big pot of soup from scratch is a good way to (a) get dinner made and (b) manifest answering "how can I express it better".  If your walk carries you past the supermarket, you can purchase the ingredients there and use carrying the added weight on the way back to further airing yourself out.  I'd suggest avoiding a crock pot, because using one allows you to avoid involvement with the act of cooking.  You want to be involved with what you are doing.

4.  Do the walk every day.  You won't go through a whole pot of soup every day, but you will need the airing out.

For you I would recommend physical outlet. Great if you could thrash about, cry, scream and exhaust yourself physically. Wrestling, vigorous sports etc would be good, imo.

That will help big time to replenish your juices and give your heart and mind a rest.

Our strength internationally is intelligence not military might.  Government's role is to rule.  Military attacks and defends.  We need to get our military out of their government.

We need to change our military role to a third party strategic role, neither on one side or the other, but on our own side.  We need to strike strategically - find and remove Osama bin Laden - but never to occupy.

One way or the other, Obama needs a satisfactory, but pragmatic end to both wars.  That means that he cannot leave either country, Iraq or Afghanistan, in severe disarray.  Achievable?  Who knows?  But he needs to change the way both wars are being prosecuted in order to bring them to a close.  

I've written forever that I think that Obam, more than anything, is a pragmatist.  I'm positive that he's going to make the doctrinaire left insane.  I consider myself quite left of center and I fully expect that issues I believe need redress simply aren't going to get it, mostly because the political will doesn't exist.