The Mentally Ill Are Suffering Under Trump

Therapists agree:

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.”

This will happen more with leftists than with conservatives, because I suspect most mental dysfunction is not due to errors in logical processing, or visual processing, but rather with amygdala-mediated functions like relevance weighing, valence assignment, and focus. Since leftism is amygdala dysfunction, when the mentally ill encounter stress and become dysfunctional, it will be when leftists find they are not getting their way easily.

This can easily be confirmed by how when Obama won, you did not hear about conservatives crying to their therapists about how stressed they were by the transition process.

Of course, maybe we should have freaked out a little more, because when leftists gain access to the levers of power, their mental debilities mean we will see things like the abuse of intelligence agencies and illegal spying on the Trump administration that we saw with the leftist of the Obama administration.

Letting mental defectives control the most powerful agencies in the world is guaranteed to be a bad idea.

Tell others about r/K Theory, because the mentally ill need to be called out for it, and kept away from governance