Suffering from Trumpsomnia? "Now I feel like a madman has taken over"

[inanna]

Sunday, Dec 25, 2016 06:30 PM EST

Since the primaries, and the November election, political anxiety is keeping people up

When the Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Rose Thomas Bannister turned on the news on the evening of Nov. 8, she saw something she’d aways feared could happen. But seeing the bad dream become reality hit her hard.

“I just felt like a switch had flipped,” says Bannister. “I could feel it in my brain.” Raised in a right-wing Pentecostal community in Nebraska, she knew all too well what theocrats and macho bullies were capable of, but she thought she had escaped the worst of it when she fled her home state. Now, with the election of Donald Trump and Mike Pence, the old demons had caught up with her.

“I know what the religious right has in store for women,” she says. “I’ve experienced it. The people who can understand and resist [Trump] are women who have experienced abuse,” she says. “That’s why he seems so familiar to us, and why he makes our skin crawl and our guts churn.”

And election night did something else to her: She stopped sleeping. Now, months later, she’s struggling with only two or three nights of sleep a week. And she was so upset she ended up with bronchitis.

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http://www.salon.com/2016/12/25/suffering-from-trumpsomnia-now-i-feel-like-a-mad-man-has-taken-over/

I know several people who are indeed experiencing severe anxiety over the Twitler.

[J_William_Ryan]

1. It is perfectly appropriate

and warranted to experience anxiety when one’s rights and protected liberties are in jeopardy.

[MasonDreams]

2. PTSD

msm saturation. Constant relentless gathering of the ill winds. These winds will create a tornado of chaos, and leave behind a 3rd world USA, guilt ridden by sins, worse than those of the Third Reich.