This may be the funniest thing you’ll see in a long time. Psychologists, who are almost exclusively liberal, have Trump Derangement Syndrome as bad as their hysterical liberal patients and don’t know what to do about it. Put another way, therapy is bullshit and so are liberals. Do you remember a conservative mental health breakdown when Mitt Romney lost to Barack Obama in 2012? Me neither. What about when John McCain lost to Obama in 2008? Perhaps the results of a free and fair election are only traumatizing to idiots, er I mean, liberals.
Washingtonian magazine has broken this story wide open: DC Types Have Been Flocking to Shrinks Ever Since Trump Won. And a Lot of the Therapists Are Miserable.
With this pressing question:
What happens when the people who are supposed to help you cope are struggling themselves?
The correct answer is that therapists are full of crap and nobody should ever pay a dime to them to fix their problems, but Washingtonian had a different response. The story starts out with a DC area psychologist who was emotionally drained by Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court and then it managed to get even funnier:
Two and a half years into the Trump administration, it’s news to no one that the 45th President has generated angst in many people, regardless of party.
Really? Republicans have angst that there’s a Republican President kicking ass and making the country better? Show your work!
Of course Washingtonian doesn’t have to prove their false statements of fact, because they are liberal, which means their fantasy world is true without proof.
But the real comedy was yet to come:
In Washington, the malaise appears especially pronounced. I spent the last several months talking to nearly two dozen local therapists who described skyrocketing levels of interest in their services. They told me about cases of ordinary stress blossoming into clinical conditions, patients who can’t get through a session without invoking the President’s name, couples and families falling apart over politics—a broad category of concerns that one practitioner, Beth Sperber Richie, says she and her colleagues have come to categorize as “Trump trauma.”
No, it’s called Trump Derangement Syndrome and apparently all liberal psychologists have it too:
But Trump trauma has also created particular clinical challenges for therapists…It’s one thing to listen to a client discuss a horrible personal incident. It’s another when you’re experiencing the same collective trauma.
“I’ve been a therapist for a long time and this has been the most taxing two years of my entire career,” therapist and GWU professor Delishia Pittman.
Delishia? I bet she taste like shit.
But wait for this:
On Election Day in 2016, psychologist Julie Bindeman put on a white pantsuit, the outfit of choice for hardcore Hillary Clinton voters. She went to work excited about the prospect of America’s first female President. Like many therapists in Washington—in fact, all but one of those I contacted, at random, for this story—Bindeman votes Democratic. The following morning, she cried in the shower and had trouble preparing herself for the day.
Once at work, Bindeman saw seven clients, all but one of whom wanted to talk about Donald Trump’s surprise win. “I had clients who were traumatized” by it, Bindeman says. “And having to hear it all day, there was an element of trauma that my colleagues and I experienced.” She left the office completely overwhelmed.
It’s already sad but somehow gets worse, or funnier depending on your perspective:
This wasn’t the first time local therapists experienced such universal trauma while on the clock, but it clearly doesn’t happen often—several compared the day after the election to 9/11 in terms of the mood in their office.
Yup. To liberals, the will of the American people is equal to Islamic terrorists killing 3,000 Americans. Is there anyone who is still willing to take liberals seriously?
Plus, let’s get these laughs in:
For many, in other words, Trump-related anxieties originate from something more serious than mere differences about policy. The therapists I spoke to are equally upset—living through one unnerving news cycle after another, personally experiencing the same issues as their patients in real time while being expected to offer solace and guidance.
Therapists are trained in keeping themselves healthy and sane, in strengthening that protective cocoon for themselves so they can provide it to others. But the Trump era—with its constant news bursts, amplified by pinging smartphone technology—has tested their ability to operate at a personal remove.
If I tried to grab every hilarious quote from this article, it would be 20,000 words long. I encourage everyone to actually read the whole thing because it’s funnier than Eddie Murphy in his prime.
I would like to point this out before I go: If I’m a car mechanic who is afraid of the sound of a running vehicle, I should look for a new line of work. If I’m a dermatologist who thinks zits are gross, I would need to find a different profession. Why is it that therapist who suffer from TDS are still working in the field of Psychology?
The answer to that is twofold: Psychology is bullshit and liberals are full of shit. It’s not a coincidence that “therapist” breaks down to “the rapist.”
