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How I Ended Up In A Psych Ward On Election Night
HUFFPO ^ | No. 29, 2016 | Benjamin Ryan

Posted on 12/01/2016 3:27:20 PM PST by PROCON

I found out Donald Trump had won the Electoral College while midstream in providing a urine sample for the emergency psychiatric staff of a New York City public hospital. The unlockable bathroom door in this unescapable wing was ajar, and I could hear the victorious Mike Pence’s sinister Sunday-school baritone taunting me with the truth from the hallway television.

For the preceding witching hours of election night, I had lain in a fetal position amidst a cast of anonymous men nursing their own crises, my hands clasped tightly over my ears. It wasn’t that I minded the howls of the guy nearby who was shackled to his cot and monitored by an unimpressed brood of policemen. Instead, I wanted to spare myself any word of the far greater insanity unfolding beyond the hospital walls.

Drained of tears, too tired to sleep, I stared at the fluorescent ceiling lights —which, indifferent to our suffering, remained on throughout the night — and endured the passing time by willing my thoughts to vanish into the dull glow. For a second, I imagined someone would burst in and proclaim, “It’s all right, Hillary won!” and I would bound out of bed, awoken from this nightmare.

This was all just a dream, right?

A while before, during the final hour of November 8, I had committed myself to institutional psychiatric care. A generation or two ago they would have said I was suffering a nervous breakdown: catatonic, plagued by involuntary jerking motions (my head furiously shaking “No! ”), speech patterns disjointed, weeping uncontrollably.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: boohoo; liberal; psychward; trump; trumpeffect
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To: cloudmountain
A true melodrama "queen".

By that I assume you mean one of the 50 varieties of sexual deviants, or a talking walking pervert from San Francisco?

41 posted on 12/01/2016 3:54:47 PM PST by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: lurk
“Nice writing style”

I just read what was in the post - but yes, very readable. Hard to believe it isn't satire. And his writing style, as well as him being gay - I doubt he really is a science journalist.

“This newly created chemical, using carbon as the base, resembles huddled clusters of refugees floating on an aimless sea of dispair.”

42 posted on 12/01/2016 3:54:56 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: PROCON

43 posted on 12/01/2016 3:56:03 PM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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To: PROCON

Try whiskey Mr. Ryan. It worked for me for much of the eight years.


44 posted on 12/01/2016 3:57:21 PM PST by NRx (A man of integrity passes his father's civilization to his son, without selling it off to strangers.)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast
Why’d they let him out?

There was nothing wrong with him. Being a crushed snowflake is not a psychiatric illness compared to the other patients there. They kept him for three days which is the maximum allowable for a self-admittance.

45 posted on 12/01/2016 3:57:40 PM PST by COBOL2Java (1 Tim 2:1-3)
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To: Ciexyz
I thought the article was a joke until I went to the Huffpo site. The guy is for real.

All of us here on FR were a little bit upset back in 2008 when Obama won, but nothing on this scale. Dear Lord, the Libs are certifiable.

46 posted on 12/01/2016 3:58:42 PM PST by Inyo-Mono
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To: bigbob
Oh, yeah, without a doubt..


47 posted on 12/01/2016 3:59:26 PM PST by PROCON (Onto the Great American Rebirth!)
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To: Billthedrill
"Major abdominal surgery" = an appendectomy. A potential boyfriend who turned him down. A friend of a friend died. A limp caused by sports. Yeah, this guy's life was shattered, all right. A hangnail would probably put him over the edge.
Nevertheless, I'd be depressed too if this was all I had of my life at age 38. Can't blame that one on Trump.

What is truly frightening, no hyperbole intended, it this guy is a Science Journalist!

That goes a long way towards explaining the unhinged, juvenile, absolute panic at the phrase "Climate Change..."

48 posted on 12/01/2016 4:02:19 PM PST by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: Lizavetta

The nurse said “you don’t belong in here” as he left.

The f*ck he doesn’t! He’s a f8xking nut case and needs to be locked up and the key thrown away.


49 posted on 12/01/2016 4:03:12 PM PST by technically right
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To: PROCON

Really enjoyed this article. Just thinking of the faux angst this drammaqueen felt brought a smile to my face.


50 posted on 12/01/2016 4:03:56 PM PST by Fzob (Let the saving love of Christ be the measure of our lives.)
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To: PROCON

He’ll feel much better once he’s “cured” by Trump’s mandatory “Heal them through Gospel Music” initiative.

Muahahahaha!!!!


51 posted on 12/01/2016 4:04:30 PM PST by papertyger (The semantics define how we think.)
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To: PROCON
This person has a sore lack of real problems.

Humans were not meant to live on a velvet cushion with all of our whims met. We are meant to have real challenges to meet and overcome. It keeps us mentally healthy.

If we have no real challenges in our lives we become.... well, whatever this person is.

A hopeless mess.

I honestly feel sorry for him. He has no real identity outside of other people.

52 posted on 12/01/2016 4:07:27 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles!)
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To: PROCON
What a drama queen....and I do mean queen. This person should have stayed in the psych ward.
53 posted on 12/01/2016 4:07:35 PM PST by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: hal ogen

No kidding!

In the meantime, I’m meeting some friends for dinner and I’m thinking it could liven things up if I bound into the space in a frolic of an outfit.


54 posted on 12/01/2016 4:08:11 PM PST by pax_et_bonum (Never Forget the Seals of Extortion 17 - and God Bless America)
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To: PROCON

>>Sure enough, just as I bolted back to the VIP area, I got a text from a worried friend who had spotted me on MSNBC. “Are you alright?” he asked.

“I want to die,” I replied.<<

This article is EXTREMELY timely. My schadenboner was starting to droop just a little after a week of recount nonsense (although when the recount blows back I shall expect raising expectations).

Every paragraph this snowflake wrote made me happier and happier. By mid-article I was LOL. By then end I was all but ROTFLOL. The Suicide Hotline plug was a FANTASTIC CAP! — it would be funny if the phone number sent them to the NRA.

The comments just started the cycle all over.

The winning! It never stops!


55 posted on 12/01/2016 4:11:04 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Good morning President Trump)
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To: PROCON
I raised $187,000 for Hillary Clinton and down-ballot Democrats, mostly by selling tickets to events headlined by first-name-basis gay icons — Cher, Barbra, Hillary herself.

Wow, really? Gee, I never would've suspected that.

No. Really.

56 posted on 12/01/2016 4:11:28 PM PST by workerbee (The President of the United States is public enemy #1)
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To: PROCON; al baby; Albion Wilde; Allegra; BufordP; EveningStar; Gefn; GunsareOK; JRios1968; ...

DANG!

57 posted on 12/01/2016 4:13:05 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Hey, New Delhi! What the hell were you thinking???)
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To: PROCON

Good, now he can’t own a gun.


58 posted on 12/01/2016 4:13:49 PM PST by Fhios
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The WINNER!!!!

:-)


59 posted on 12/01/2016 4:14:34 PM PST by pax_et_bonum (Never Forget the Seals of Extortion 17 - and God Bless America)
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To: PROCON; John Semmens
I thought this had to be satire.

John, I actually double-checked to see if it was one of your masterful postings.

But, it's not. And the sad part, he actually thinks he is a sympathetic character.

60 posted on 12/01/2016 4:15:22 PM PST by justlurking (#TurnOffCNN)
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