Is anyone else suicidal because of the current U.S. political situation?

So this election has been really traumatizing for me.  I haven’t been eating properly, I haven’t been sleeping properly.  I haven’t been attending to my family responsibilities, my health has been going downhill, and I’ve been failing to look for a job.  The disgust and despair are getting overwhelming.  Every single day I think of getting a gun or jumping.

I’ve seen some things in the media about this, but I haven’t seen any posts here about it.  My counsellor said she hadn’t seen many clients who were upset about politics–according to her, they were all wrapped up in their own problems.  But for me, this IS the biggest problem.  So what’s up here?  Has the media exaggerated things, as it so often does?  How many other people feel the same way?  Feel free to respond either if you do feel the same way or if you don’t.

I don’t want to get into a political debate here, so I’ll try not to get into the specifics of what’s bothering me.  It’s not so much the candidates themselves as the behavior of so many ordinary people out there.  At this point it looks to me like the vast majority of them just have an incredibly messed-up way of thinking, to the point where I really don’t want to have much to do with them.  I feel like I can’t engage with them, can’t work with them, can’t effectively communicate with them.  And I feel like there’s nothing I can do to help matters.

It’s not just a short-term thing, either.  It won’t get better as soon as the election is over.  I feel like the election has revealed what was always there, under the lid.  And once you’ve seen something like that, there’s no going back.  Now I understand some of the things I’ve read about in history a lot better, and they’re even uglier than they seem at first sight.

Please don’t tell me something like “join a group, work together with like-minded people,” etc.  The closer I get to other people, the more they disgust me.  I no longer want any part of the society around me.  If I don’t commit suicide, I guess I might emigrate–probably to Australia or New Zealand.  (I think there’s a good chance outright civil war is coming here in the U.S., so might as well get as far away from it as possible, I suppose.  But I’m not sure if anywhere else is so much better that it’s worth uprooting myself.)

Sorry if I seem so misanthropic, that’s just the way I feel.  Thoughts?  Ideas?   Anything?