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Author dies after diagnosing himself with ‘Post-Trump Stress Disorder’
The Washington Times ^ | November 25, 2016 | Andrew Blake

Posted on 11/25/2016 10:29:14 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Acclaimed author Jeff Gillenkirk died of a heart attack this week, two days after publication of his final article, “The New PTSD: Post-Trump Stress Disorder.”

Gillenkirk, 67, suffered the heart attack Tuesday while teaching a class of third-graders in San Francisco, Alternet reported.

Mr. Gillenkirk, an Alternet contributor and onetime speechwriter for former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, wrote in his final article of the severe anxiety he and others have experienced in the aftermath of Donald Trump being elected president — “a painful, sad irony,” said Alternet’s executive editor, Don Hazen.

“Anguishing yet again over election results in the middle of the night, I finally realized I’m experiencing something similar to PTSD,” reads Mr. Gillenkirk’s article, which was published Sunday. “Triggered by the election, to the most powerful office in the world, of a man who’s 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....

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Health/Medicine; Politics; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: alternet; democrats; trump
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Some folks here likely to drop dead over “Trump may hire someone I don’t like” disorder....


41 posted on 11/25/2016 11:37:38 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: bigbob

So now they are not bashful about Alternet? Geez, what a bunch of wussified projectionists.


42 posted on 11/25/2016 11:46:36 AM PST by mazda77
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Does anyone else remember left-wing “journalist” Lars-Erik Nelson who died during the Florida recount which was attributed to stress from “Bush stealing the election”?


43 posted on 11/25/2016 11:47:20 AM PST by HateBill (Too productive for Obama's America)
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To: rlmorel

“He was teaching elementary school students”

That was the most alarming part of this article. He was teaching THIRD GRADERS!!! What was he teaching them???


44 posted on 11/25/2016 11:49:41 AM PST by Reddy (B.O. stinks)
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To: Mears

That’s OK, I smiled and waved bye bye! ; )


45 posted on 11/25/2016 11:50:28 AM PST by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Let’s see - Trump Total Derangement Syndrome (TTDS) can be fatal. But since it is so easily treatable with an off-the-shelf remedy of, say, a healthy dose of FreeRepublic on a daily basis, not to worry for thinking people.


46 posted on 11/25/2016 11:55:08 AM PST by Montana_Sam (Truth lives.)
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To: shhrubbery!

“With Trump’s election, I feel a great weight has been lifted from my shoulders. “

The exact phrase my wife and I felt; and a couple we were visiting with.
Like a heavy dark burden that was suddenly gone.

The other thing we all felt; that our nation has a new chance to keep going now. Our 240 year old experiment in power in the people gets to keep going.


47 posted on 11/25/2016 12:06:43 PM PST by HereInTheHeartland (I don't want better government; I want much less of it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What exactly was he teaching the students?


48 posted on 11/25/2016 12:22:53 PM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: HereInTheHeartland

Trump won!!
STFU and Die. Another idiot bits the dust.


49 posted on 11/25/2016 12:25:07 PM PST by Kozy (new age haruspex)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is this the start of the Trump Body Count?


50 posted on 11/25/2016 1:41:09 PM PST by arthurus (One should not bank on the Democrats' inability to "find" any number of "uncounted" votes)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Check his blood for cocaine and viagra, both of which can cause heart attacks.


51 posted on 11/25/2016 2:38:51 PM PST by LadyDoc
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Karma is a biotch,,,


52 posted on 11/25/2016 3:16:30 PM PST by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: fruser1

Seems like liberalism is a physical disorder as well.


53 posted on 11/25/2016 3:38:30 PM PST by Spirit of Liberty (It's morning in America again!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Alternet?


54 posted on 11/25/2016 3:51:33 PM PST by Jaded (Pope Francis? Not really a fan... miss the last guy who recognized how Islam spread... the sword.ag)
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55 posted on 11/25/2016 4:08:27 PM PST by Chode (You Owe Them Nothing - Not Respect, Not Loyalty, Not Obedience, NOTHING! ich bin ein Deplorable...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Survival of the fittest.....


56 posted on 11/25/2016 5:19:14 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Acclaimed author Jeff Gillenkirk...

Acclaimed by who?

57 posted on 11/25/2016 5:21:39 PM PST by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: JimRed

Susie Gillenkirk?


58 posted on 11/25/2016 5:22:21 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Liberalism’s lies killed him. Hate is heavy on the heart. It’s sad.


59 posted on 11/25/2016 7:01:16 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Prayers for a deeply misguided soul.


60 posted on 11/26/2016 1:10:43 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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