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Is "Trump Derangement Syndrome" a Real Mental Condition?
Psychology Today ^ | Jan 04, 2019 | Rob Whitley, Ph.D.

Posted on 12/01/2019 5:05:32 AM PST by Candor7

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Written by a Canadian Professor at McGill University in Montreal Canada. I wonder if he listens to nothing but the CBC, which rebroadcasts only talking points from CNN.

Listening to supermarket banter in Canada, it seems thatCNN/CBC propaganda has been very successful at misleading Canadians, who themselves desperately need a populist political movement in Canada for economic reasons, something the left is desperately afraid of in Canada, which is why the CBC news broadcasts anti Trump news every chance they get, 24/7.

Trump Derangement Syndrome also afflicts Canadians, if you can imagine. Its like the spreading virus of a Zombie Apocalypse which can only have one ending.

1 posted on 12/01/2019 5:05:32 AM PST by Candor7
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CNN is a poison.

Forced watching in airports. Including the baggage return carousel at BWI.

From what I understand, CNN pays the airports to host that stuff.


2 posted on 12/01/2019 5:10:03 AM PST by sauropod (Chick Fil-A: Their spines turned out to be as boneless as their chicken patties.)
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Mental health “professionals” would rather their patients suffer from TDS than deal with it as a real mental condition.

The first thing TDS sufferers need to do is turn off their television and keep it off.

Then they need to stop reading any establishment news articles.

They need to get outside and smell the flowers or walk in the woods.

Then they need to start living _their_ lives and start ignoring what _other_ people are doing far away and ignore what other people are saying about what other people are doing far away.

Then they can regain their sanity.


3 posted on 12/01/2019 5:14:00 AM PST by cgbg (The Democratic Party is morphing into the Donner Party)
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“ridicule the notion that TDS is anything but a malicious slur term used to discredit and delegitimize criticism of President Trump. “

Definitional TDS behavior.


4 posted on 12/01/2019 5:16:27 AM PST by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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over 70,000 people self-identifying as "mental health professionals"

"self-identify"

Just like all those dudes breaking records and winning championships by "self-identifying" as girls.

Meaningless

5 posted on 12/01/2019 5:16:58 AM PST by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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To: sauropod

Trump Derangement Syndrome comes from that same dark place in the human soul that lynching black folks did back in the day.

Its interesting to see it spread among the young and not be censored or criticized by those who so glibly play the race card these days.

CW II can’t be very far off.

It’s as if 30% of the country have become Zombies headed towards a Zombie Apocalypse. Hateful ba$tards all of them.


6 posted on 12/01/2019 5:17:22 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Candor7
Obviously


7 posted on 12/01/2019 5:19:52 AM PST by McGruff (Does no one is above the law apply to Democrats?)
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To: McGruff

Sweet, Merciful Jesus, I’m glad I don’t know her.

Thank you, God!


8 posted on 12/01/2019 5:33:07 AM PST by chris37 (Where's Hunter?)
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To: Candor7

Would they remove Einstein from the field of math? The world is full, or historically has been full, of people that could be considered “on the edge” for centuries. But they accomplish what they go after, right or wrong. And the only way to consider them a problem is when they don’t do what you want them to from your, possibly, limited experience or capacities. The difference from the mentally ill to genius is a very thin line in many cases.

rwood


9 posted on 12/01/2019 5:34:30 AM PST by Redwood71
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ALL LIBs/leftists are lunatics. It is merely a matter of degree. They are mentally deranged. Watching therm attempt to justify their mental illness is worth a laugh. Sickos. I laugh at their persistent “dilemma”. Hahahaha. All they deserve is ridicule 24/7.


10 posted on 12/01/2019 5:39:09 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: Candor7

TDS = Dipshititis.


11 posted on 12/01/2019 5:39:18 AM PST by HighSierra5
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The DSM-5 is in many way a political norm statement than a medical document.

There is a truthful joke that sanity is when your perception of reality is similar to your neighbors. Insanity is when your perception of reality differs from your neighbors .

Many of us have very strange neighbors.


12 posted on 12/01/2019 5:47:36 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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It is as real as Hopium Withdrawal. Representative Maxine Waters is ‘patient zero’ for the dual-diagnosis of Trump Derangement Syndrome and Hopium Withdrawal.


13 posted on 12/01/2019 5:48:28 AM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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Leftists are afraid that our adoration of Trump will turn into how Germans felt about Hitler, unaware of their own Hitler-as-messiah feelings about Obummer.

Meaning (to Dems): their leader - wonderful; our leader - bad.

14 posted on 12/01/2019 5:51:04 AM PST by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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“Forced watching in airports. Including the baggage return carousel at BWI.”

OMG. So nearly an hour (on average) of being forced to listen to CNN.

Where the hell is the Geneva Convention when we need it?


15 posted on 12/01/2019 5:57:41 AM PST by BobL (I drive a pickup truck to work because it makes me feel like a man.)
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To: Candor7

I think the DSM is in the process of ‘normalizing’ pedophilia, as they did for LGBTs recently. Not sure when Bestiality gets ‘normalized’ (providing the beast ‘consents’) but I suspect that it’s not too far off.


16 posted on 12/01/2019 6:00:09 AM PST by BobL (I drive a pickup truck to work because it makes me feel like a man.)
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To: Pollard

Now we know there are at least 70,000 well-certificated QUACKS, who fear that President Trump will “fire them” from their worthless “jobs”...


17 posted on 12/01/2019 6:17:34 AM PST by pfony1 (All Democrats LIE.)
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To: Candor7

Sociology, psychology and other soft science have been so overtaken by liberals that they can never achieve an objective and balanced perspective.


18 posted on 12/01/2019 6:17:58 AM PST by Fido969 (In!)
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To: Candor7

It’s real and dsm-5 is a farce.


19 posted on 12/01/2019 6:22:51 AM PST by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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Officially at least, TDS is not a real, diagnosable, or treatable mental disorder.

I would bet that if I peruse the DSM-V, I would find the exact disorder that we colloquially call "Trump Derangement Syndrome." The fact that we who are not trained psychologists or psychiatrists recognize that something is going on but do not know the scientific term for it does not mean that we do not observe a real phenomenon.

Contrariwise, many others ridicule the notion that TDS is anything but a malicious slur term used to discredit and delegitimize criticism of President Trump. For example, CNN’s Chris Cillizza may speak for many when he stated: "The truth is that TDS is just the preferred nomenclature of Trump defenders who view those who oppose him and his policies as nothing more than blind hatred." Likewise, Adam Gopnik writes that "our problem is not TDS; our problem is Deranged Trump Self-Delusion."

I see here a fair amount of projection. Whenever we would criticize Obama policies, people like Chris Cillizza would dismiss our criticisms as racist diatribes. They never once examined the actual criticisms, which were based on policy, not personality. On the other hand, the left avoids talking about Trump policy, choosing instead to label Trump as racist, sexist, etc. I wonder how many leftists can accurately name any Trump policies, much less explain the rationale behind them? They are only interested in personally destroying him, not in debating policy.

And the bottom line is, we have seen plenty of leftists acting in an irrational manner over the fact that Trump is president. Not just irrational, but completely off-the-deep-end behavior. They are not well.

20 posted on 12/01/2019 6:33:25 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org)
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