Trump Is Triggering Leftist Mental Illness

Trump has got their amygdalae in his back pocket:

Carol Wachs, a psychologist in private practice in Manhattan, recently started seeing an old patient again. The client had first sought treatment for anxiety following the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11. Now she was worried about a new menace: Donald Trump and his zealous supporters…

“People are scared,” says Fiachra “Figs” O’Sullivan, a psychotherapist in San Francisco who specializes in relationships. “People are distressed, and it’s affecting their level of presence in their relationships with their significant others.” Dorie Chamberlain, a 54-year-old stay-at-home mom in Los Angeles who says she talks about Trump every time she goes to therapy, says watching the election “is like living in a house where everybody screams…”

I’ve covered four elections as a journalist, but this is the first one to regularly poison my dreams; at least once a week I wake up in the middle of the night in clammy, agitated horror…

About two weeks ago, Liz, a 45-year-old photographer in suburban Minneapolis who asked to be identified only by her first name, started noticing alarming symptoms: headaches, jitteriness, tightness in her chest, sometimes even difficulty breathing. She went to her physician, who said it sounded like she was suffering from anxiety. “I thought, huh, I don’t even have a stressful job. I don’t know what that can be,” she says. Then she went home and turned on the news, “and all the sudden the symptoms came back with a fury.” She realized that thinking about Trump was affecting her health.

The amygdala does not just control your attachment to the reality of the world around you, and run your consciousness. In reflexively controlling physiological factors designed to adapt you to that world, it also controls your health. Let your amygdala malfunction, and you will be running hot when you should run cold, and running cold when you should run hot. Burnout and physical failure will happen fast – as we are seeing with Hillary, whose decline began in earnest once she defeated Sanders and faced Trump.

Even better, let your amygdala atrophy, experience health symptoms like these, begin to grow panicky about your health, adapt by trying to shield your amygdala even more with pleasure, relaxation, and safety (like pretty much every SJW demand for safe spaces, politically correct speech, and so on is designed to do) and your health may end up in a feed forward death spiral just like Hillary’s.

It is highly likely that amygdala exercise and development is as important to good health as physical exercise. Join a martial arts club to fight, a soccer league to play, or some other aggressive, competitive endeavor, and then make sure to embrace the stress and angst produced by the inevitable failures you endure along the way, so your mind adapts as much as your body.

Liz hasn’t agreed with past Republican candidates, she says, but she didn’t think they would “ruin my country, or cause civil war, or cause World War III.” But her fear also stems from her incredulous realization that so many of her fellow citizens inhabit a reality that barely intersects with her own. “I can no longer see where they’re coming from,” she says of Trump supporters. “I feel like I’m in The Twilight Zone.” Even if Clinton wins, she’s terrified of Trump’s followers responding with violence. “We’re getting closer and closer and closer to something that seems so insane,” she says, “The thought of him winning, or even the thought of her winning and parts of the country imploding in chaos as a result—it all just seems like a nightmare…”

Notice how her amygdala can’t process, and cope with, simple realities like President Trump – who in reality may actually make this country a little freer and put it on a slightly firmer economic footing. This disconnect is because she has never faced real hardship, so her amygdala can’t tell the difference between President Trump, and her father catching Ebola. It is also why cancer patients and the chronically sick tend to have better perspective and cognitive resilience. They are used to stress, and know not everything will kill you – and even the stuff which might can be dealt with.

“Usually it’s combined with other anxiety triggers that they may be having, and it can cause sleeplessness, restlessness, feeling powerless. It can lead to feelings of depression…”

A good reason to read a lot of these things, is that the analysis can help you see how to inflict it on people. Link what you want them panicked by with what they are already triggered by.

It’s that Trump’s success seems to validate the men’s behavior. “They had gotten themselves to a place of, This is not what I deserve, I deserve better, I can do better,” Silvestri says. But watching dutiful, responsible Clinton struggle to best Trump, “people are really backtracking and saying, ‘I made this move to be more empowered and be who I am based on my values, but now I see my ex writ large on the national stage, and everyone’s following him,’ ” Silvestri says. They start thinking that, for a woman, maybe being beautiful really is more important than being smart, assertive, and authentic.

In other words, when exposed to stress and reality, women tend to head more toward that K-model of a sweet girl who gets along with everyone and takes pride in being pretty. As opposed to r, where a woman uses snark to intimidate people from challenging her intellectually, asserts herself in people’s faces when they don’t like her, and tells herself that her bitchiness is just her being authentic. Because being nice would be misleading people about who she is. r vs K, and the reversal of masculine and feminine behaviors.

Naturally, a Clinton critic would attribute the lack of passion to Clinton’s weaknesses as a candidate. That’s surely some of it. But Wachs sees deeper, more elemental drives at work. She notes that for some people, fear of Trump translates into fury at Clinton. “There’s a lot of blame on Hillary, the way you would blame your mother for something going wrong in the world,” Wachs says. “People blame Hillary for not being a better candidate. How can it be that he’s able to be a good candidate?”

Notice as amygdalae are activated, it produces fear. As that amygdala activation wears on them, it transitions to anger, which then drives them to look for someone to blame. When Hillary loses, if they want to blame Trump, they will have to accept that they lost as well, and Trump beat them too. This would create a sense of personal inferiority – because they lost.

To maximize the amygdala relief, they will need to find an outlet which involves them being right, and still losing, for reasons beyond themselves. That will involve blaming Hillary. They were right, and would have beaten Trump, but for Hillary letting them down. It is Hillary’s fault, and they will blame her.

Add in the rage of Bernie’s supporters, and the rage which will erupt when Hilary’s health problems become public, and it becomes obvious that she sacrificed everything the left holds dear to entertain her own quixotic urge to sate her own ego, and I would not be surprised if the Clinton name were never seen in politics again.

All of this is good for reasons beyond the pleasure of tasting liberal tears. As these leftists are forced to cope with this stress, it will develop their amygdalae. They will need to become more stress tolerant, and we can expect a reduction in SJW ascendance during the Trump administration. Given how far SJWism has come, I expect this will manifest in the form of a backlash.

It is about time.