reckon our country has always had its share of hopeless pussies like the above, but I really wish they'd all just stfu for my last couple years !
Posted on 01/05/2018 7:18:12 PM PST by markomalley
One Washington, D.C.-based therapist’s clients have 99 problems, and they all seem to be about President Donald Trump.
Elisabeth Joy LaMotte, a psychotherapist and founder of the DC Counseling and Psychotherapy Center, writes in The Washington Post that a number of her patients have been complaining that the media’s fixation on Trump is taking a toll on their personal lives.
One couple that she works with (who she names Sally and Steve) have been seeing LaMotte to “strengthen their communication and feel more connected.” It seemed like they were making real progress. That is, until Trump won. She quotes Steve:
Sally and I value that our political views are compatible. We have always enjoyed discussing current events, and our careers relate to politics, as you know. I initially took comfort in the fact that we went through the shock of Trump’s victory together, but something has changed. Sally is constantly reading news updates on her phone and watching CNN, even in the middle of the night. It’s gone too far. It’s no longer something that connects us; it’s now a wedge between us.
Sally and Steve aren’t alone, apparently. LaMotte writes that this “dynamic” is one she’s seen “with other couples and individual therapy clients” she works with.
So, what’s fueling these issues? “Stress is, in my experience, increase — the stress associated with news consumption,” according to LaMotte.
“A surprising number of couples in therapy are fighting with each other about their respective modes of news consumption. These couples report less sleep, a growing sense of disconnection and less sex. And this includes couples where both members share the same political views,” she writes.
Her findings are backed by recent studies that show “increased levels of consumption of news” can compromise “emotional well-being over time.”
One of LaMotte’s clients complains that her boyfriend is “sick of me screaming at the television. I’ve started watching Fox to branch out of the so called bubble, and it’s all lies, I can’t stand it!”
Improved “sleep hygiene,” LaMotte writes, can help alleviate the stress associated with the constant onslaught of news updates. By 10 p.m., she prescribes, all screens should be off. After all, “losing the screens an hour or two before bed is conducive to better sleep and more sex.”
Of course, if you need to see a shrink because of a couple of Trump tweets, maybe you have more serious issues.
reckon our country has always had its share of hopeless pussies like the above, but I really wish they'd all just stfu for my last couple years !
Outstanding !
The sad part about this story is that these people actually consider themselves victims somehow. The mere idea that the Republic worked exactly intended with a change in government through peaceful elections and transition of power is poison to them. They need to either disconnect from the DC area and all of its rent seeking tentacles or be disconnected.
Trump may or may not be the best President out there, he may or may not be the worst one out there, but the idea that he ‘just can’t be President, he just can’t!!!’ is incompatible with democracy, the Constitution, or even being an actual adult.
There needs to be a central government. Adults need to be a part of it. It has to be resilient enough to handle anyone being in charge of it and the rules need to be strong enough to keep any one of those anyones from damaging the system so much that there isn’t any coming back. These schmucks were rooting against most of this because they sincerely believed their side would never lose again. They deserve all of their misery.
No, read the comments at the wapo article. It’s no exaggeration, leftists are mentally ill.
One word.
LOSERS.
CNN induced psychosis. Is there an insurance diagnosis code for that illness? There’s a lot of it going around.
Thanks, guys. There’s more at my profile page.
WINNING!
Fox New Alert! Psychiatrist and Psychologist unemployment lowest in history!!
Stupid Moonbats haven’t seen nothing yet.
Trumpophobia! I’d bet a box of Sigmund Freud’s cigars on that diagnosis.
If I were a Psychiatrist, or therapist, or rock-healer, or whatever, I’d move to DC. There’s plenty of lefty-loons, RINO-pu$$ies, and other dregs I could make a mint off of by charging by the hour.
The GOP answer to the Democrat superstar Obama was the superstar Trump. And it’s a most satisfactory answer.
Democrats shouldn’t complain when Republicans borrow their book.
The vapors are back in vogue.
You could put Vicks Vaporub on them whilst cooing “only eight years!”
Winning. I'm not tired of it yet.
The irony is that Donald isn’t going to impact their daily lives much except make it a little better on average. Their real problem is that their icon has been clasmed.
Tell um to quit worshiping the government. The government is not God. That also means it can’t be Satan. Those entities have independent existence.
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