How can I get un-depressed?!

How can I get un-depressed?

I recently viewed a lot of footage at school about the Holocaust. I haven't been able to get these images out of my head. I've been praying, and I've tried to think of other things. I agree that it's important to learn about history, and I have great respect for that. But HOW can I get this horrible feeling out of my heart? I seriously feel like I'm going to have a panic attack. Please help me.

This may not feel as though it helps NOW, but understand that the fact that you can react this way to Holocaust footage will mean something to others, as well as yourself, perhaps a little later on. It means you've not been a victim of the combination of severe apathy and the feeling that such things as concentration camps are normal - and believe it or not a lot of high school and college age persons in this era are not reacting with emotion of any sort at all when told of the Holocaust. They'll shrug or make jokes. It's even been known to cause some people to WANT a dictatorial government and in this day and age that may not be too far off without PEOPLE EXACTLY LIKE YOU ALIVE, talking about how you feel, and becoming active in making sure history does not repeat itself.

Because if you plug the words Halliburton and "detention and removal centers" into a search engine you will find out something that may deeply disturb you, as it did me. There are apparently a large number of disused military bases across the USA that are becoming converted into these "DARCs". The purpose is supposedly to detain illegal immigrants. Sounds very fishy to me because major corporations, especially agricultural corps and heavy industry, depend on illegal and thus unregulated and cheap labour for their prosperity, so I don't see these centers being built to detain immigrants. I fear they are going to be used to detain and "remove" dissidents, Muslims, drug users, mentally ill persons, or who-knows-what and whom, in the coming years.

Know that your witnessing the potential for cruelty and social acceptance of mass murder SHOULD disturb you, give you nightmares, daymares, and affect your life. This means you have empathy. You haven't "drank the Kool Aid", so to speak, and thus have my respect. Surely it won't be me alone who you will find respecting this. To help cure the trauma, find ways to become active in preventing history from repeating. Talk to young people, especially, who are growing up in this benighted century thinking that the past six, seven years have been "just the way things always are" whereas we who are older know it's not supposed to be like this. The executive branch of US government should not have unilateral power, and well, anything Halliburton is involved with, especially "detention and removal centers", is HIGHLY suspect. Get the word out. Help prevent another terrible world war and what could be a second Holocaust worse than Hitler's in future times which all too quickly become present times.

BTW I could not sleep without bad dreams for weeks after reading The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. You have my complete sympathy as well as respect.