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Post-Election Depression: How to Cope
ABC News ^ | Nov. 5, 2008 | LAUREN COX, ABC News Medical Unit

Posted on 11/05/2008 7:13:48 AM PST by Gondring

Post-Election Depression: How to Cope

After Any Political Campaign, Depression Can Await the Defeated

It's over. Nov. 5 has come, and no matter whom you were rooting for, many political animals say the day after an election can bring on a special sort of blues. The bored kind.

"It's almost kind of a surreal feeling. [...] When her father's campaign ended during the Republican primaries, Huckabee said she felt more than a sense of loss.

"It felt like it didn't hit us until a couple of weeks later when we were like, 'Uh, what do we do now?' You don't know how to have a normal life anymore," [...]

"Getting back to the real world is probably one of the hardest things," she said. [...] Bill McConochie, the founder of Political Psychology Research, Inc.[...]

"What I do know from my research is there are two types of political animals, if you will," McConochie said. According to McConochie, how far a person falls on either end of a spectrum of "liberal" or "conservative" traits will determine how serious they will take a victory or defeat on Election Day: The more extreme in views, the more important the election.

"Their reaction will simply depend on how strongly a person is invested in the election process," said McConochie.

[...]

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To: listenhillary

Seeking weapons and ammo to defend the republic might be better advised.


81 posted on 01/17/2009 7:44:52 PM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Gondring

Are we saving our Republic from our fellow Americans?

Just a question. I’m not trying to be sarcastic or a smartbarry.


82 posted on 01/17/2009 7:48:30 PM PST by listenhillary (Socialists ~ Consuming the fruit of capitalists for more than 80 years!)
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