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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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To: henkster
I can see these deranged nutjobs screaming and crying uncontrollably in therapy sessions while people with real problems are left hanging.....TDS will be sucking the air out of therapists offices and therapy rooms for next 8 years...
To: nickcarraway
I wanted my clients to see how upset I was I wanted them to know that I was just as scared and anxious as they were because I wanted them to know that I was with them. So in the first few weeks, I allowed myself to be with my clients and to cry with them. I wanted them to know that we were all in it together, that racism, homophobia, and misogyny shake me to my core ...Oh for Pete's sake...
To: nickcarraway
These pu$$ies have been grabbed.
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posted on
12/16/2016 11:18:07 AM PST
by
fungoking
(Tis a pleasure to live in the 0zarks)
To: henkster
Some moderate self-medication with a bottle of Beefeaters gin was sufficient. And a trip to the gun shop and range. Not back to back of course. ha ha
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posted on
12/16/2016 11:25:32 AM PST
by
ChildOfThe60s
("If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there")
To: nickcarraway
I am not being the least bit factious when I ask this:
How to these people, including this wacko therapist, stay grounded well enough to hold jobs and function in society? They sound like they need to be medicated into a state of drooling contentment.
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posted on
12/16/2016 11:27:59 AM PST
by
ChildOfThe60s
("If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there")
To: A_perfect_lady
As a case manager myself, I just want to smack these wusses and yell STFU and listen to your clients’ issues!...
Some years ago my husband and I were driving through a desolate part of W Texas on the way to Ruidosa NM listening to the only radio station we could get-Garner Ted Armstrong was talking about responsibility-he said “When the blind lead the blind, they both fall in the ditch”-that certainly applies here...
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posted on
12/16/2016 11:28:04 AM PST
by
Texan5
(`"You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to drive a hard line"...)
To: nickcarraway
This has to be one of the stupidest articles I’ve ever read on F.R., I “feel” as if I have lost about 40 or so I.Q. points and everybody that knows me knows that I can’t afford that.
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posted on
12/16/2016 11:29:49 AM PST
by
Graybeard58
(Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
To: Texan5
My clients seem very happy over the election results.
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posted on
12/16/2016 11:39:38 AM PST
by
Chickensoup
(Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
To: Huskrrrr
She would always tell us to go soak our head in a bucket of water. If that didnt 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.”
LOL... My mother was German also!
To: Chickensoup
Everyone I know-whether at work or neighbors-is elated and looking forward to better times-but then I live and work in rural redneck deplorables land...
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posted on
12/16/2016 11:58:58 AM PST
by
Texan5
(`"You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to drive a hard line"...)
To: nickcarraway
As a marriage and family therapist from the Bay Area glibly mused, He says hes the jobs president well, he certainly is for me and my fellow therapists.HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
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posted on
12/16/2016 12:29:48 PM PST
by
Albion Wilde
("Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo."--Donald Trump)
To: nickcarraway
I get anxiety just thinking about considering a Trump quote or agenda item as possibly being reasonable even though the rational part of me knows that theres probably something out there that I would agree with. Its easier to just think of him as the most evil or incompetent person in the world and completely discount anything he says. In that way, my own Trump anxiety only shrinks my ability for perspective and forms a feedback loop that is really difficult to acknowledge and interrupt. Michael Hilgers, a licensed professional counselor in Austin, TexasOh, brother. So glad this article named names, so that fundamentally sane people who may need a spot of counseling can avoid these ones.
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posted on
12/16/2016 12:40:55 PM PST
by
Albion Wilde
("Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo."--Donald Trump)
To: Arkansas Toothpick
As we’ve learned from the fake media, things are different if you put the right spin on it.
Based on this article, it sounds like the vast majority of people with mental problems are Democrats/liberals. What does that tell you?
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posted on
12/16/2016 5:29:32 PM PST
by
generally
( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
To: BenLurkin
>>If anything, it sounds to me like they are actually making their clients worse!
FTA: He said he was going to laugh off the election result. It felt good to join him in denial for a moment. But then I asked if he was overwhelmed by the consequences the election would have on his children.
So the guy is coping well, but the therapist sees it as denial, then encourages him to be overwhelmed. How nice.
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posted on
12/16/2016 5:31:26 PM PST
by
generally
( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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