How do you not get overwhelmed by the despair and the misery of it all?

Besides chronicling the war casualties, some RuNet users have pondered the apparent hopelessness of the age old conflict.

Nobody prepares you for this fear, for this feeling of hopelessness, for the horror of being held hostage to violence in your own home.

Africa, in particular, remains a zone of conflicts and instability, and this exacerbates the feelings of helplessness and distress among our peoples.

The civilization devoid of spiritual meaning and true moral values inevitably becomes a source of inhumanity and leads humankind to chaos and hopelessness.

Death row inmates have few visitors and few financial resources, increasing their sense of isolation and hopelessness.

A pervasive air of hopelessness and apprehension now grips the nations of the Horn, the urgency of which merits the immediate concern and attention of the international community.

It is a severe and prolonged state of mind in which normal sadness grows into a painful state of hopelessness, listlessness, lack of motivation, and fatigue.

The existing economic situation just described, however, should not suggest a state of total hopelessness on the part of the Government of the Gambia.

Africa has immense opportunities that never navigate through the web of despair and helplessness that the Western media largely presents to its audience.

And it reaches 40 and over amongst those who drop out of school in the banlieues, which have become no go zones of hopelessness.

Nowadays, leaders squander their countries resources and revenues, leaving the majority of their populations mired in poverty, disease, hunger, war, and hopelessness.

Europe s economic struggles are reflected in its political situation, with many European electorates now mired in a sense of hopelessness and sliding toward ideological extremes.

Most of the 13,500 returnees are scattered throughout shanty townships where the majority of the receiving communities are themselves destitute, suffering from homelessness, joblessness and hopelessness.

A hospital admission followed, the first of many, a diagnosis of schizophrenia came next, and then, worst of all, a toxic, tormenting sense of hopelessness, humiliation and despair about myself and my prospects.

As depression worsens, feelings of extreme sadness and hopelessness combine with low self esteem, guilt, memory loss, and concentration difficulties to bring about a severely painful state of mind.

In response, the MCYS spokesman clarified that the word hopeless in the poster did not refer people with disabilities, but to the sense of hopelessness that they feel about their condition.

And to make it easier for you to keep the unity of man and the world, I will add for salt, pepper and enjoyment a proverb from my shores, the shores of the Baltic do not lose your hopelessness.

Whereas economic dynamism may be a cause for drug abuse elsewhere, for many of these countries, stagnation and hopelessness are the driving forces behind the spread of drug related trends.

Even those who are certain, like North Africans in Spain and France, or Turks in Germany, had as their priority escaping the hopelessness of their home countries, not arriving at a particular destination.

At the time Gregor's only concern had been to use everything he had in order to allow his family to forget as quickly as possible the business misfortune which had brought them all into a state of complete hopelessness.

By refusing the peace plan accorded between the principal powers of the international community, the self proclaimed Pale assembly has decided to continue war, pushing all of us into death, destruction, hopelessness and hatred, and into total isolation from the rest of the world.

In this provocative talk, journalist Andrew Mwenda asks us to reframe the African question to look beyond the media's stories of poverty, civil war and helplessness and see the opportunities for creating wealth and happiness throughout the continent.

The Agency does not exclude the possibility, however, that after disengagement restrictions on the freedom of movement of persons and goods may be maintained, further exacerbating the dire economic situation and feelings of hopelessness in the population at large.

And my panic at not having a self that fit, and the confusion that came from my self being rejected, created anxiety, shame and hopelessness, which kind of defined me for a long time.

Uncertainty about their future, coupled with their lack of influence all over the world often left young persons indifferent or plunged them into despair. Those problems could be overcome if they were given an opportunity to participate in society and in the development of the world.