Stress in America, or how Donald Trump is making us sick

[babylonsister]

Stress in America, or how Donald Trump is making us sick
Susan Grigsby
Sunday November 25, 2018 · 4:30 PM EST


Not a big fan of reality television, I never did see why so many Americans wanted to watch a jackass fire people from fake jobs on a weekly basis. Like most reality TV shows, The Apprentice appeared to be specifically designed to humiliate those lucky enough to appear on it. But The Apprentice took it one step further and turned the phrase “You’re fired” into part of the national vernacular. As someone who had to actually fire people in real life, I never found any pleasure in it, and did not understand why the viewing audience would want to watch it happen to some stranger. Still don’t, but in those days I had an easy out: I could simply change the channel.

Until the same people who enjoyed watching an idiot degrade people on television decided that he needed a wider audience and so went to the polls on November 8, 2016, and cursed our nation with his constant presence.

What were they thinking? That somehow this smarmy blowhard with a bad comb-over would become statesman-like? That he would magically gain the intelligence necessary to begin to understand how our government works? Did they think he could grow a brain or a heart in the few months between the election and the inauguration? Did they even think at all, or were they just hell-bent on owning those dangerous, politically correct liberals that Fox had been warning them about for 20 years?

If that was the case, then they should have been gratified when Americans began turning to mental-healthcare providers to help them deal with their increasing anxiety. According to a July 2018 report from the Canadian Broadcasting Company,

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.

And while some right-wing pundits were happy to rename it “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” Trumpsters were often waiting in line to see the same mental-health professionals.

Apparently Trumpsters are not exempt from the increasing levels of anxiety. Our anxiety and disgust with their choice has troubled them as well:

Therapists around the country told CBC they're seeing politically tinged anger and anxiety from patients no matter their political affiliation.

In Columbus, Miss., John Hawkins's LGBTQ clients have opened up about their worries "that their marriages might be voided," while Trump supporters in his sessions worry that liberals are trying to thwart a president who is "doing the best he can."

His supporters don’t seem to appreciate that our anxiety is often due to the fact that we realize that he is “doing the best he can.” We just realize that his best is not even acceptable for a comic-book president. He has spent his time in office finding and destroying every semblance of honest government, appointing grifters to major cabinet positions from which they raid the Treasury for a life of comfort and ease while dismantling the departments they are meant to head. He is filling the judiciary with hacks and partisans, to insure that the damage he does remains long after he is gone.

He has insulted our allies and praised our enemies. His trade war with China is devastating the flyover country that elected him, costing the rest of us a $12 billion payout in financial aid to the farmers who no longer have a market for their crops. Skinheads and racists all recognize him as a fellow bigot and are thrilled to have an easily manipulated idiot like him in the White House.

So, yes, liberals are trying to thwart this man, righteously so, and are experiencing increasing levels of anxiety and stress.

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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/11/25/1814367/-Stress-in-America-or-how-Donald-Trump-is-making-us-sick

[Grasswire2]

1. My BP has suffered.

Been to the ER twice, wearing a patch for med.

[FirstLight]

2. I wonder what studies will say

in a few years...how much more alcohol people are consuming (especially to try and watch the news at nite!) and other related issues due to this pox on our country.

I have never felt so much fear, angst and revulsion towards a public figure

...and I thought W was bad!

[BigmanPigman]

3. I am sure suicide rates have increased too.

tRump is a danger to the US and the world, even the plants and animals effected by his climate change denials. And he loves IT! He is a sadist and gets off on seeing everyone miserable. He is a really sick muther.

[FirstLight]

4. ...

I had a dear old journalist friend literally die of a heart attack within 3 days of the election. Every day I wish I could call him and seek his wisdom, but alas, he knew the shitstorm was coming and got the fuck off the planet!

[BigmanPigman]

6. Talk about good timing!

Who would ever have imagined 2 years ago that it would be a good (or not so bad) thing to have a heart attack right away? Whenever I read that someone hs recently died a little part of me says, "Well, at least he won't have to live through this shit show for even one more day". It's sort of like the silver lining.

[bdamomma]

5. I hate this guy

after hearing the report for Climate change and how it's going to get worse, and this POS is so freaking ignorant of any kind of facts, I turned to Netflix to watch the Secret Lives of Pets, just to calm down.

Can't this POS just go away hasn't he damaged our country and us enough. He's been there long enough. Not fit of fucking to do anything right. Get the rack.

[smirkymonkey]

7. Hear, Hear!

Every word you said bdamomma!

[bdamomma]

8. geez I was so upset

about how he denies the scientists reports about climate change. I wish his mar a Lago would fall in a sinkhole.

[PA Democrat]

10. I wanted to see him deposited right in the center of the Camp fire with a frigging RAKE.

[demtenjeep]

9. I started antianxiety meds the Jan he was installed

last year I was in the hospital. They asked me why I was taking them and I explained that as a political science teacher, I worry about it all.

The nurses agreed about the reasons for worry. There after, they would tell me they had my tRump pill.

[DinahMoeHum]

11. Michael Steele, formerly RNC head, said just as much.

after Trump whined about the 9th Circuit Court during the turkey pardoning ceremony.

Link to tweet

@potus just shut the hell up and get on the helicopter. Give us a rest from your crazy. You don’t know the 9th circuit from a circuit breaker. It’s thanksgiving for crying out loud. Let us be thankful for your silence. You’ve said enough this week.[/b]

[babylonsister]

12. Wow!! That's how we all feel! nt