8 Therapists on Postelection Anxiety — Their Clients’ and Their Own

New York Magazine ^ | December 16, 2016 | Alexa Tsoulis-Reay

[Hambone 1934]

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...

[A_perfect_lady]

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...

[fungoking]

These pu$$ies have been grabbed.

[ChildOfThe60s]

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

And a trip to the gun shop and range. Not back to back of course. ha ha

[ChildOfThe60s]

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.

[Texan5]

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...

[Graybeard58]

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.

[Chickensoup]

My clients seem very happy over the election results.

[tired&retired]

“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.”

LOL... My mother was German also!

[Texan5]

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...

[Albion Wilde]

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.”

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

[Albion Wilde]

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 there’s probably something out there that I would agree with. It’s 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, Texas

Oh, brother. So glad this article named names, so that fundamentally sane people who may need a spot of counseling can avoid these ones.

[generally]

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?

[generally]

>>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.