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How I Ended Up In A Psych Ward On Election Night
HUFFPO ^ | No. 29, 2016 | Benjamin Ryan

Posted on 12/01/2016 3:27:20 PM PST by PROCON

I found out Donald Trump had won the Electoral College while midstream in providing a urine sample for the emergency psychiatric staff of a New York City public hospital. The unlockable bathroom door in this unescapable wing was ajar, and I could hear the victorious Mike Pence’s sinister Sunday-school baritone taunting me with the truth from the hallway television.

For the preceding witching hours of election night, I had lain in a fetal position amidst a cast of anonymous men nursing their own crises, my hands clasped tightly over my ears. It wasn’t that I minded the howls of the guy nearby who was shackled to his cot and monitored by an unimpressed brood of policemen. Instead, I wanted to spare myself any word of the far greater insanity unfolding beyond the hospital walls.

Drained of tears, too tired to sleep, I stared at the fluorescent ceiling lights —which, indifferent to our suffering, remained on throughout the night — and endured the passing time by willing my thoughts to vanish into the dull glow. For a second, I imagined someone would burst in and proclaim, “It’s all right, Hillary won!” and I would bound out of bed, awoken from this nightmare.

This was all just a dream, right?

A while before, during the final hour of November 8, I had committed myself to institutional psychiatric care. A generation or two ago they would have said I was suffering a nervous breakdown: catatonic, plagued by involuntary jerking motions (my head furiously shaking “No! ”), speech patterns disjointed, weeping uncontrollably.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: boohoo; liberal; psychward; trump; trumpeffect
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To: fwdude

This HAS to be parody. Nobody, and I mean nobody is such a constipated narcissist as this, just not possible. And I should know. I am after all Napoleon.


21 posted on 12/01/2016 3:40:27 PM PST by lafroste (Look at my profile page. Thanks.)
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To: PROCON

wow, I really enjoyed this drivel....

He is the epitome of drooling liberals everywhere!

I hope he’ll be ok. He’ll never really be “healthy” unless he gets a brain/values/psyche transplant.


22 posted on 12/01/2016 3:40:56 PM PST by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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To: Ciexyz

I hope the tender snowflake stays in the mental ward where he will get three free meals a day and a DEPENDS change on demand.

I think his roommate’s name is A.B. Normal.


23 posted on 12/01/2016 3:40:57 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: fwdude

I’m thinking he’s got a really good handle on that whole lamentating women thing.


24 posted on 12/01/2016 3:42:26 PM PST by Bob (No, being a US Senator and the Secretary of State are not veauccomplishments; they're jobs.)
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To: PROCON

Oh the things I could do if only I had “my hair lavishly coiffed into a confident pompadour”.


25 posted on 12/01/2016 3:43:00 PM PST by pax_et_bonum (Never Forget the Seals of Extortion 17 - and God Bless America)
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To: PROCON

‘I want to die,’ I replied......Soooooo..Why don’t you?


26 posted on 12/01/2016 3:45:07 PM PST by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: pax_et_bonum

The LIB idiot should have checked him self into a mental ward many, many years ago.


27 posted on 12/01/2016 3:45:07 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: PROCON

“Don’t come back, Ryan,” a nurse admonished as I crossed the red line toward an uncertain freedom. “You don’t belong here.”

That racist nurse probably voted for Trump!


28 posted on 12/01/2016 3:45:38 PM PST by The Fop (God Bless Donald Trump, Frank Sinatra, Joan Rivers, and the Fightin' Rat Pack Wing of the GOP)
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To: PROCON

Nice writing style. Maybe some pulp romance-suspense novels in his future. With Mike Pence as the powerful villain.


29 posted on 12/01/2016 3:45:50 PM PST by lurk (TEat)
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To: PROCON

Why’d they let him out?


30 posted on 12/01/2016 3:45:53 PM PST by Scott from the Left Coast ("Now it's up to the American people to deliver justice")
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To: PROCON

This fairy needs to return to the booby hatch.


31 posted on 12/01/2016 3:47:11 PM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: Steely Tom
Not tired of winning yet, no-no no.

NTOW

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32 posted on 12/01/2016 3:47:55 PM PST by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: GregoTX
ROFLMAO!!! Best tears meme yet!


33 posted on 12/01/2016 3:49:14 PM PST by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: PROCON

They shouldn’t have let him out.


34 posted on 12/01/2016 3:49:54 PM PST by reaganaut (I'm looking forward to Trump as President. I'm an Evangelical and I vote.)
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To: PROCON
Ben could have saved himself a trip to the ER if only he had asked his husband to hold him tight.
35 posted on 12/01/2016 3:50:20 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: PROCON

OK, I am changing my tagline.


36 posted on 12/01/2016 3:50:59 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them!)
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To: PROCON
Good Grief! More and more validation of my estimate from 2000 to the present as to the state of insanity in the U.S.

It's gone from 25% to over 50% certifiably (clinically) insane. I am dead serious; and most of them vote.

It's a race now, between normal people and the saving of the Republic, and the national suicide via the notion that the very young, under 12, the senile, the insane and the mentally impaired are entitled to vote.

I don't recall if the Federalist Papers discussed this touchy subject, and I can't help wondering if children, the senile, the mentally non-functional and the insane were allowed to and expected to vote between 1793 and 1835?

Does anyone remember ever seeing or reading about the subject?
I see the only option if this is not addressed : the destructive, social suicide of the Republic, or a rational relevant qualification for the right to vote, other than being able to breathe unassisted.

37 posted on 12/01/2016 3:52:13 PM PST by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: GregoTX

That’s hilarious!


38 posted on 12/01/2016 3:52:28 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them!)
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To: PROCON

HuffPo tried to frame this as an example of how horrible Trump’s election was - it drove this sensitive soul to the brink of insanity (and that’s how many of the commenters on the HuffPo site view it). But it points up something far different - that the liberal cause attracts a great many very troubled people in need of psychological help.


39 posted on 12/01/2016 3:53:34 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: PROCON
Can you imagine the tears being shed by the DUmpster Kids when commenting on this?
40 posted on 12/01/2016 3:54:04 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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