Sunday, July 29, 2018

Snowflakes experiencing Trump Anxiety Disorder

In October of 2017, I wrote about an overwrought article by Andrew Sullivan about Donald Trump:

    I would love to be a fly on the wall of the offices of psychiatrists in New York, San Francisco, and Washington these days to find out exactly how many Never Trumpers, even a year later, still cannot bring themselves to accept the reality that the Donald defeated Hillary and are reporting grievous psychological distress to their Duty to Warn shrinks as a result of it. "Doc, I feel like I've fallen into an abyss."

    All I can say to the author is what I said to David Remnick of The New Yorker last year right after the election: Andrew, it's probably best just to end it all right now.

Now, CBS News reports:

    What's been called "Trump Anxiety Disorder" has been on the rise in the months following the election, according to mental-health professionals from across the country who report unusually high levels of politics-related stress in their practices. ... Though not an official diagnosis, the symptoms include feeling a loss of control and helplessness, and fretting about what's happening in the country and spending excessive time on social media, she said.
During Obama's autocratic reign with pen and phone, the Liberals and Progressives were blithely unconcerned. But, now that Trump is using the very tools that Obama honed for him, the world is coming to an end.

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