Posted on 07/28/2018 5:23:56 AM PDT by mkleesma
"Is he gonna blow us all up?"
So inquired one of Elisabeth LaMotte's patients recently, fretting out loud about the volatility of U.S. President Donald Trump's actions during a therapy session at her Washington practice.
It was a rhetorical question — one that predated Trump's threats of a showdown with Iran this week. But if the question wasn't meant in earnest, the politically induced anxiety LaMotte is hearing about from her clients certainly is, says the founder of the D.C. Counselling and Psychotherapy Center.
She refers to it as a "collective anxiety" among patients who feel on edge about how potentially dire the president's decisions could be.
"There is a fear of the world ending," she said. "It's very disorienting and constantly unsettling."
What's been called "Trump Anxiety Disorder" has been on the rise in the months following the election, according to mental-health professionals from across the country who report unusually high levels of politics-related stress in their practices.
And it's maybe not surprising given the relentlessly negative headlines and politically divisive climate.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbc.ca ...
Romans 8
28 Moreover we know that to those who love God, who are called according to his plan, everything that happens fits into a pattern for good...
31-32 In face of all this, what is there left to say? If God is for us, who can be against us? He that did not hesitate to spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all—can we not trust such a God to give us, with Him, everything else that we can need?
35-36 Can anything separate us from the love of Christ? Can trouble, pain or persecution? Can lack of clothes and food, danger to life and limb, the threat of force of arms? ...
37 No, in all these things we win an overwhelming victory through Him who has proved his love for us.
38-39 I have become absolutely convinced that neither death nor life, neither messenger of Heaven nor monarch of earth, neither what happens today nor what may happen tomorrow, neither a power from on high nor a power from below, nor anything else in God’s whole world has any power to separate us from the love of God in Jesus Christ our Lord!
Snowflakes.
“And in a notorious Yale Law Journal article, feminist law professor Wendy Brown wrote about an experience in which, after a wilderness hike, she returned to her car to find it wouldn’t start. A man in an NRA hat spent a couple of hours helping her get it going, but rather than display appreciation for this act of unselfishness, Brown wrote that she was lucky she had friends along, as a guy like that was probably a rapist.”
It seems that many Dems just couldn’t bring themselves to vote for her. Supposedly, Dems, most media and elites thought she was just wonderful before she lost. Not so much after. On the other hand, almost everyone liked DJT before he ran for President. After he won, he became a horrible person to half the country and to the propaganda media.
“...the stab: he’s ‘disturbed at what’s happening to our country’.”
You should’ve told him to expound on his statement. What disturbing things are happening? More jobs? Overall a better economy? ISIS gone? NoKo on a different path? These people spew phrases they hear from the MSM, but have no facts.
Well, if the don't like lower taxes, increased world peace, and more job opportunities, then they can move to UK or Germany.
Or some other socialist hell hole, like Venezuela.
This article makes it sound like this proves something.
It doesn't.
Poor baby.
He needs some therapy ponies and coloring books.
Good managers maintain the status quo and good leaders identify a goal and convince followers to join them in the achievement of that goal.
Most presidents are managers and most citizens don't find the maintenance of the status quo frightening unless the status quo becomes dangerous (as it had in America before the 2016 election).
Trump is of course a leader.
Leaders are bound to divide the county into those who understand that change is needed and those who don't. Many people hate any kind of change because they are just naturally weak, fearful, and neurotic.
The people therapists are treating (as mentioned in this article) are in the latter group.
What is really interesting is that these people didn't recognize the change Obama was bringing because he said one thing and did another AND because the media covered for him.
Obama was a leader too...of the deconstructionist sort.
You're fired.
Reading your tagline and comment.
So now that he’s been in office for a year and a half and the world hasn’t ended, what’s your assessment now?
What would the little snowflakes do if they had to actually live through an actual showdown (Kennedy - Cuban Crisis) like we had to do?
I remember, as a high school student, being a little worried, but I didn’t have to run to a shrink.
What a bunch of prejudiced ingrates.
Weak, very weak. The socialists have the backbones LGBT jellyfish.
Didn’t the suicide rate go up and life expectancy go down under Obama?
Can we get them declared insane so they can be institutionalized and disenfranchised for their safety and ours?
Leftist . . . Trump is NOT the disease, liberalism is.
Lots of better places to live and work.
The psychological foundation of liberalism is fear. Its why the left has suddenly turned all Joe McCarthy seeing Russian boggiemen where none exist
fear is the basis of Fake Newz
Neurotics just go for irrational politics.
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