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8 Therapists on Postelection Anxiety — Their Clients’ and Their Own
New York Magazine ^ | December 16, 2016 | Alexa Tsoulis-Reay

Posted on 12/16/2016 10:17:34 AM PST by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 12/16/2016 10:17:34 AM PST by nickcarraway
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More post-election schadenfreude to savor, thanks!
2 posted on 12/16/2016 10:22:21 AM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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I felt bad in 2008 when 0bama won. But I didn’t go crying to the therapist about it.

Some moderate self-medication with a bottle of Beefeater’s gin was sufficient.


3 posted on 12/16/2016 10:23:02 AM PST by henkster
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Did the mental health community have this sort of angst, among themselves and patients, when Obama was elected???

Did they experience such difficulties upon results of any other election in history??


4 posted on 12/16/2016 10:23:20 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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Democrats need to put big boy pants on and get over it. Life goes on.


5 posted on 12/16/2016 10:26:30 AM PST by bobrlbob
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What peeves me the most is that these accounts are a way of saying that Trump’s election is an objective offense against those with mental and emotional problems. That is unbelievable in its arrogance and contempt for America and demonstrates a REAL sickness.


6 posted on 12/16/2016 10:27:37 AM PST by Arkansas Toothpick
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I don’t get it.

If someone is this emotionally fragile (and incapable of being impartial) how the heck did they get work as a “therapist?”

If anything, it sounds to me like they are actually making their clients worse!


7 posted on 12/16/2016 10:28:51 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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“As a marriage and family therapist from the Bay Area glibly mused, “He says he’s the jobs president — well, he certainly is for me and my fellow therapists.”

This article leads one to conclusion that Libs are unstable. :-)


8 posted on 12/16/2016 10:29:45 AM PST by MNGal
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The-rapists are still verklempt


9 posted on 12/16/2016 10:30:25 AM PST by Navin Johnson
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I just offer up that what they are ‘feeling’ I have been dealing with for 8 years.
I tell them they will get used to it...*snicker.


10 posted on 12/16/2016 10:30:49 AM PST by glasseye
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But therapists have feelings, too, of course. As the news settled in, the psychologists we spoke to were weighing how much of their own anxieties they should divulge to their already vulnerable clients.

There are probably a higher % of loons in that profession than in any other.

11 posted on 12/16/2016 10:30:55 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
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Adult snowflakes, how quaint.


12 posted on 12/16/2016 10:31:02 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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If it’s really that bad in their feeble little minds, then they should just leave

IOW, GTHO . . .then we all would be happy


13 posted on 12/16/2016 10:32:22 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW BOYCOTT PepsiCO Kellogg's)
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effin’ pathetic!


14 posted on 12/16/2016 10:42:32 AM PST by gr8eman (Don't waste your energy trying to understand commies. Use it to defeat them!)
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I confess to more than a little schadenfreude at all the angst from these snowflakes. All my life I’ve been the target of Trump-like attacks from Democrats and one Republican breaks the “rules” and turns their own tactics against them and they can’t handle it.


15 posted on 12/16/2016 10:43:49 AM PST by colorado tanker
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My mother had a perfect cure for everything that ailed you. I’m sure it will cure post election trauma....

She would always tell us to go soak our head in a bucket of water. If that didn’t work she would tell us to keep it under longer!


16 posted on 12/16/2016 10:50:12 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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The problem here is that the MSM drove the Left into a psychological frenzy to support Hillary Clinton and when she lost, the psychological “crash” hurt a lot of people. That’s why I really had to ask was it a good idea to hold a Thanksgiving dinner just only a few weeks after the election with so many frayed psyches on the Left.


17 posted on 12/16/2016 10:56:43 AM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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An increase in bed wetters was noted.


18 posted on 12/16/2016 10:59:51 AM PST by Huskrrrr
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These 8 need help, maybe a stay in mental hospital is in order. And their patients should find alternative shrinks.


19 posted on 12/16/2016 11:00:30 AM PST by mulligan (I)
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“She would always tell us to go soak our head in a bucket of water. If that didn’t work she would tell us to keep it under longer!”

Ha! My mother reminded us that she grew up in Nazi Germany, where people had REAL reasons for complaining.


20 posted on 12/16/2016 11:01:46 AM PST by Huskrrrr
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