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Local Psychologists and massage therapists are reporting ‘Trump anxiety’ among clients
The Washington Post ^ | 3/4/2016 | Paul Schwartzman

Posted on 03/04/2016 7:27:24 AM PST by Beave Meister

To the catalogue of anxieties her patients explore during therapy — marriage, children, and careers — psychologist Alison Howard is now listening to a new source of stress: the political rise of Donald Trump.

In recent days, at least two patients have invoked the Republican front-runner, including one who talked at length about being disturbed that Trump can be so divisive and popular at the same time, said Howard, who practices in the District.

What had happened to Trump during his childhood, the patient wanted to know, to make him such a “bad person?”

“He has stirred people up,” Howard said. “We’ve been told our whole lives not to say bad things about people, to not be bullies, to not ostracize people based on their skin color. We have these social mores and he breaks all of them and he’s successful. And people are wondering how he gets away with it.”

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To: IronJack
The Donald is a dynamite enema for the whole political system. Let's pray he as made with good, fresh nitro, has a strong detonator, and a good, short fuse.
21 posted on 03/04/2016 7:46:37 AM PST by libstripper
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This story is beyond hilarious...It shows just how perverted our education system and millennium, metrosexual culture has become...

Pajama Boy and his/her minions...

“...I need to see a psycho(logist) to sort out my *sniff* feelings!!!!”


22 posted on 03/04/2016 7:47:39 AM PST by JBW1949
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To: Beave Meister

Gee Alison, thanks for the CLIENT-PATIENT confidentially.


23 posted on 03/04/2016 7:48:14 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: libstripper

Well, we know he has a pretty short fuse ...


24 posted on 03/04/2016 7:50:12 AM PST by IronJack
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To: Beave Meister

Liberals were no doubt distressed at the rise of Ronald Reagan 36 years ago, but while their ideology was as toxic then as now, the liberals of that time had not internalized the poisonous thoughts that leftism represents like today’s crop of whiners. There have always been unstable individuals, but the mental illness we see in Trump Derangement Syndrome is to be expected in a country in which the social, business, and cultural elites have abandoned discipline and traditional values for hedonism and situational ethics. Mitt Romney, Glenn Beck, Miley Cyrus, Richard Gere, and numerous other people of questionable ethical and moral character and less than stellar intellect engage in ridiculous hyperbole in their denunciations of Trump.


25 posted on 03/04/2016 7:51:19 AM PST by Wallace T.
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To: IronJack
If you think about it, the only thing Trump has done is talk "street", talk plain, like how ummm..just about EVERYBODY talks when they are around close friends, and these liberal wusses can't handle it. It amazes me the mental issues these people have, Hillary threatening rape victims - OK! Obama wanting to bring in thousands of Muslim men from terror producing countries - OK! Trump calling Rubio "little Marco" OH MY! Trump is Hitler! Trump is KKK!


26 posted on 03/04/2016 7:51:34 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Can we please kill the guy already who invented the saying "My bad"?)
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To: Gaffer

The “journalist” who reported this story no doubt had the brilliant idea (preconceived notion) for this “story,” then went to the massage parlor and had a trivial conversation with the masseuse while on the table.
Thus, a few inconsequential remarks become indicative of a sociological trend. It’s how “journalism” is done these days.


27 posted on 03/04/2016 7:52:00 AM PST by mumblypeg (Reality is way more complicated than the internet. That's why I'm here.)
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To: PapaBear3625

to not ostracize people based on their skin color.

Funny I have been watching and following Trump for months and he has never mentioned anything about Skin Color.

Trump does want to ostracize some people here that are a danger to the Republic...IS there a certain Skin Color for Islamic Terrorists that I am missing?

(stupid liberal idiots must believe so)


28 posted on 03/04/2016 7:52:06 AM PST by Gasshog (Fed-Up America & Donald Trump vs. Career Politicans - Guess who Wins?)
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To: mumblypeg

I believe your version more than I do this “journalist”....these dirtbags are paid by political ideologue masters to squeeze out excrement that is supposed to suffice for journalism.


29 posted on 03/04/2016 7:54:13 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: libstripper

Donald is a dynamite enema

OUch! lol they deserve worse.


30 posted on 03/04/2016 7:55:22 AM PST by Gasshog (Fed-Up America & Donald Trump vs. Career Politicans - Guess who Wins?)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

What are their FR nicks?


31 posted on 03/04/2016 8:03:49 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Beave Meister

ANXIETY. . . They have no idea how much anxiety we have felt for 8 years. Eight years because we could see through Obama all during his pre-election posturing. Eight years of my retirement worrying and stressing about what the Liberal Democrats were going to do next to destroy our country.

I feel like skunks have moved into my house and I need a experienced exterminator to get them to #ell out without leaving too much stench behind.


32 posted on 03/04/2016 8:20:33 AM PST by mia
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To: Beave Meister
Local Psychologists and massage therapists are reporting ‘Trump anxiety’ among clients

This is a good thing. The cure is to move to France.

33 posted on 03/04/2016 8:24:37 AM PST by aimhigh (1 John 3:23)
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To: MortMan; Gamecock; PapaBear3625
Let me first quote from the article:

"He has stirred people up," Howard said. "We’ve been told our whole lives not to say bad things about people, to not be bullies, to not ostracize people based on their skin color. [....]"

Did you notice the semi-veiled assertion that Trump is racist in that spiel?

Though I don't know if your question is general or directed at Gamecock, I definitely noticed the assertion on my first reading. (I still agree with you that the assertion is "semi-veiled." I wonder if this veiling is more of a intentional sneaky wording or more of an unconscious reflection of the speaker's beliefs.)

This realization should be combined with something from post #10:

Not say bad things about people, UNLESS they are straight, white conservatives. Then it's open season, both in public and in movies, TV shows, etc.

(I wonder if non-white conservatives exist in these movies and TV shows; the most crucial part there is "conservatives," as you will find when hearing those love-filled liberals talk about Clarence Thomas.)

In similar fashion, I remembered too on my first reading something that struck me even when I was young and had imbibed much of the so-called liberalism that surrounded me. The same people who talk about "tolerance" and "peace" and "civility" will eagerly say "bad things about people" and bully people as much as they like--when they target just the right people.

(Though other things were more fundamental in my political turning, this realization was helpful. If "liberals" were actually pleasant people, I may have delayed my critical exploration until after I'd reached voting age.)

34 posted on 03/04/2016 8:24:40 AM PST by Lonely Bull ("When he is being rude or mean it drives people _away_ from his confession and _towards_ yours.")
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To: Lonely Bull; Gamecock; PapaBear3625

It was a general question. I am unaware of Trump uttering any racist diatribes, although I know he has been accused of it. The muslim immigration issue (which has been thoroughly lied about in “news” coverage) is less than a nothing-burger. It, literally, is stopping the government machine (at least temporarily) until its works are understood and corrected to proper function.

Trump successfully uses many liberal tactics against his opponents, both liberal and otherwise. He personifies, in some ways, the most effective of Alinky’s rules - especially the use of ridicule.

These are explicitly the tactics used by liberals every danged day.

The GOP electorate has been clamoring for someone to use these same tactics against the libs, but the GOP party bosses are too afraid to face down whatever criticism it might generate. The voters are mad as hell, and surely seem prepared to not take the GOPe bullstuff any more.


36 posted on 03/04/2016 8:36:20 AM PST by MortMan (Let's call the push for amnesty what it is: Pedrophilia.)
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To: Beave Meister

Trump Anxiety = Butt hurt


37 posted on 03/04/2016 8:41:53 AM PST by paddles ("The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." Tacitus)
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To: Beave Meister
‘Trump anxiety’ among clients

There sure are a lot of riders on the Multi-Trillion Dollar Gravy Train.

Of course, they are anxious. May they all die screaming, on fire, and looking their worst.

38 posted on 03/04/2016 8:47:22 AM PST by meadsjn
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To: Beave Meister

The snowflakes are sure catching hell in the Comments section. They don’t want the country run by Republicans, we don’t want the country run by neurotics.


39 posted on 03/04/2016 8:59:28 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Beave Meister
We're on to their game... We don't like them. We don't share values with corrupt elites.

Elites have betrayed the country to feather their own nests... They won't be forgiven just because they know how to put on airs... this is more serious than affecting the right 'attitude'...

“Smug” is not a cogent argument for why the country's been bankrupted, infrastructure's crumbling, borders are nonexistent and crime is skyrocketing... Hillary's queen of the elites and possibly a criminal... are the rest of the 'elites' criminals too? Do they all sell our country out to the highest bidder?

Are all our 'elites' taking bribes? Giving 'speeches' for hundreds of thousands of dollars to groups that don't care if they stand at the podium and say, "Quack, quack, quack" for 43 minutes?

40 posted on 03/04/2016 9:09:13 AM PST by GOPJ (White liberal elites propped up by a criminal underclass dancing on burning cars.)
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