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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe new PTSD: Post-Trump Stress Disorder
Aguishing yet again over election results in the middle of the night, I finally realized Im experiencing something similar to PTSD. Check out this definition from the renowned Mayo Clinic:
"Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition thats triggered by a terrifying eventeither experiencing it or witnessing it. Symptoms may include flashbacks, nightmares and severe anxiety, as well as uncontrollable thoughts about the event.
Lets call this PTSD post-Trump stress disorder, triggered by the election, to the most powerful office in the world, of a man whos espoused wholesale exclusion of Muslim immigrants, deporting millions of undocumented immigrants, repealing Roe v. Wade, abolishing the Environmental Protection Agency, and encouraging Japan, South Korea and Saudi Arabia to develop nuclear weapons, among other polarizing proposals. While post-Trump stress in no way equals the level of trauma experienced by combat veterans in Afghanistan, Iraq or Vietnam, this is an experience shared by tens of millions of Americans right now.
"Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition thats triggered by a terrifying eventeither experiencing it or witnessing it. Symptoms may include flashbacks, nightmares and severe anxiety, as well as uncontrollable thoughts about the event.
Lets call this PTSD post-Trump stress disorder, triggered by the election, to the most powerful office in the world, of a man whos espoused wholesale exclusion of Muslim immigrants, deporting millions of undocumented immigrants, repealing Roe v. Wade, abolishing the Environmental Protection Agency, and encouraging Japan, South Korea and Saudi Arabia to develop nuclear weapons, among other polarizing proposals. While post-Trump stress in no way equals the level of trauma experienced by combat veterans in Afghanistan, Iraq or Vietnam, this is an experience shared by tens of millions of Americans right now.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/the-new-ptsd-post-trump-stress-disorder/#.WDQqyMBGjKA.twitter
Yeah, I got it bad!!!
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The new PTSD: Post-Trump Stress Disorder (Original Post)
AmericanMan1958
Nov 2016
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brucefan
(1,549 posts)1. Yeah
I feel no different today than I did on the morning of November 9th
Raster
(20,998 posts)2. Unfortunately, I have to agree...
...I go through periods of "normality," and then find reality comes crashing back... WE -collectively- elected Donald Trump POTUS.
5X
(3,972 posts)3. until it is post, president trump stress disorder. n/t