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Stress Expert: Media To Blame For Left’s Post-Trump Freakout
Breitbart ^ | 11-13-2016 | Joel B. Pollak

Posted on 11/13/2016 7:17:30 PM PST by blam

by Joel B. Pollak
November 13, 2016

Dr. Pete Sulack, stress expert and founder of StressRX.com, told Breitbart News on Friday that the media bears some of the blame for the deep distress felt by some Hillary Clinton supporters, and the public unrest, after Tuesday’s election results. “The media is partly to blame for actively fueling fears of some kind of Nazi regime under a Trump presidency,” Sulack said, via e-mail. “In part this is because problems and pain sell advertising space. Mass communications has always struggled with that balance between fair reporting, personal bias, and pressure from executives to keep things ‘hot.'”

He noted that people were responding negatively to anti-Trump images on television and social media.

“When we read, we can rationally discuss the issues or definitions of terms at hand. When we see pictures, however, a different part of our brain is engaged.

“That part is the limbic brain, a part also activated in stressful situations, because it is key to survival. This is the most primitive and unevolved part of us. It acts on emotion, is irrational, childish, and afraid. It can be rude and boorish, and sometimes even cruel,” he said.

Sulack notes that many voters are also upset because they feel “hopeless and powerless.” To deal with the stress, he recommends avoiding alcohol and caffeine, and instead eating dark chocolate, “tree nuts or nut butters,” and “kale and other leafy, green vegetables.”

Teen mental health expert Jamison Monroe, Founder and CEO of Newport Academy, says that while the media are fueling some of the anxiety, much of it comes from information shared by peers through social media.

“Media greatly influences people’s thoughts and opinions. However, teens are very influenced by their peer groups

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KEYWORDS: election; media; riots; trump
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1 posted on 11/13/2016 7:17:30 PM PST by blam
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Giuliani: Anti-Trump Demonstrators Are ‘Professional Protesters,’ Not Hillary Supporters
2 posted on 11/13/2016 7:19:14 PM PST by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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I am ready for the homeless stories. Trump camps. Come on media!
3 posted on 11/13/2016 7:19:56 PM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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4 posted on 11/13/2016 7:23:17 PM PST by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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Yeah, well you go out in the streets and offer the dindus a pine nut and kale salad to calm down and go home.
5 posted on 11/13/2016 7:24:49 PM PST by Loyalist (Deplorably yours!)
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To: blam
To deal with the stress, he recommends avoiding alcohol and caffeine...

Uh oh.

I think I've been doing it wrong...

6 posted on 11/13/2016 7:25:37 PM PST by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: blam
Part of the blame is the media. They vilified Trump so long, hard, harshly and unjustly that anyone not knowing THE FACTS would think he was some angry alien.

Part of the blame is Shrillary herself.
*She pandered to the young, who have the worst of voting records.
**She pandered to the Hispanics who are FAR more conservative than anyone thinks.
***She pandered to the African Americans who voted for Obama BECAUSE he was black, yet derided and vilified Condoleezza Rice because she was a Republican AND the 66th United States Secretary of State, the second person to hold that office in the administration of President George W. Bush.

Also, I don't recall her hubby BillyGoat ever saying: "Vote for my wife because she is The Best." Did you ever hear that from him?

7 posted on 11/13/2016 7:25:57 PM PST by cloudmountain
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http://www.portlandoregon.gov/police/news/read.cfm?id=7719&ec=1&ch=twitter

Let’s take a look at photos of those arrested in Portland last night.

Addicts, anarchists and anti-socials, oh my.


8 posted on 11/13/2016 7:32:42 PM PST by SE Mom
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Obama for PM: People are begging Barack Obama to come and run the UK
http://metro.co.uk/2016/11/11/people-want-obama-to-move-to-the-uk-and-become-the-next-prime-minister-6251059/#ixzz4Px0Ko0nu


9 posted on 11/13/2016 7:33:03 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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We should keep this in mind when we hear reports of children being traumatized by Trump’s election: probably in most cases, their fears were not created by anything Trump did, but by extreme characterizations of Trump coming from their parents and/or teachers.


10 posted on 11/13/2016 7:37:21 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: TornadoAlley3

We haven’t had homeless stories for eight years. On January 21, the papers will be filled with them.


12 posted on 11/13/2016 7:46:30 PM PST by randita (PLEASE STOP ALL THE WORTHLESS VANITIES!)
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To: blam

I think also the fact that the media did not seriously consider and/or report that Donald Trump could win, that it left the democrats totally unprepared for the shock that was the Trump victory. The upside is it has been fun to watch though...


13 posted on 11/13/2016 7:54:16 PM PST by bigemmk
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But also, Nazis! Nazis Nazis Nazis Nazis!


14 posted on 11/13/2016 8:04:46 PM PST by W. (Aw, crap, it's still dark.)
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To: randita
We haven’t had homeless stories for eight years. On January 21, the papers will be filled with them.

If only I still read newspapers. Well, I do look at one or two online, but mostly for the comment sections where the truth is told and American wit flourishes!
15 posted on 11/13/2016 8:11:39 PM PST by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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"We haven’t had homeless stories for eight years. On January 21, the papers will be filled with them."

There have been a lot of local homeless stories in Seattle the past year (for reasons I won't get into), but homelessness here can't be blamed on Republicans (because there aren't any), so it is kind of treated as a fact of life, i.e., as "just one of those things."
16 posted on 11/13/2016 8:46:20 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: blam

I’ve been saying it for days. This chaos rests at the feet of the media and the democrats.


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18 posted on 11/13/2016 8:59:42 PM PST by GOPJ ( Trump took 39%+ Hispanics in FL, large numbers of Cubans, and more than 30% Hispanics nationally-LS)
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Trump increasing employment and has not been sworn in yet. Tired of winning? :)
19 posted on 11/13/2016 9:45:51 PM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: blam

How about the simple cause of the protestors’ anxiety is that they are lazy, stupid wimps and ignoramuses who are more easily led than a herd of lemming?


20 posted on 11/13/2016 10:47:11 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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