Anyone subjected to shitlibs is familiar with
Trump derangement syndrome. The condition renders libfags more irrational than ever, destroying the credibility and evidently the minds of creatures like
Bill Kristol and
Jonah Goldberg. But does TDS represent an actual psychiatric disease like those listed in the
DSM? Practicing psychotherapist Jonathan Alpert
says yes:
Clinically, the presentation aligns with anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders: persistent intrusive thoughts, emotional dysregulation and impaired functioning. Patients describe sleepless nights, compulsive news checking and physical agitation. Many confess they can’t stop thinking about Donald Trump even when they try.
That is what they call living rent-free in someone else’s head. Here is where it crosses the line into psychosis:
They interpret his every move as a threat to democracy and to their own safety and control.
Neolibs allow these delusions to ruin their lives:
One patient told me she couldn’t enjoy a family vacation because “it felt wrong to relax while Trump was still out there.” Others report panic attacks or trouble sleeping after seeing him in the news.
As it's been talked about many times in this thread, isn’t really about Trump:
For many, he functions as a psychological screen onto which unresolved fears and insecurities are projected.
Recall that
Bush Derangement Syndrome preceded TDS.
Call it “obsessive political preoccupation”—an obsessive-compulsive spectrum presentation in which a political figure becomes the focal point for intrusive thoughts, heightened arousal and compulsive monitoring. …
From a diagnostic standpoint, it overlaps with obsessive-compulsive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder and trauma-related syndromes.
As with transsexual psychosis, TDS has gotten out of control due to collective reinforcement:
Social media, partisan news outlets and aspects of modern therapy have turned emotional validation into moral virtue.
Libshits encourage each other to believe their hebephrenic hatred of Orange Man proves they are good people.
Again like transsexual psychosis, a psychiatry industry saturated with neoliberalism results in professionals making the problem worse:
Therapy, once a space for cognitive restructuring, has in some quarters become an echo chamber for emotion. Rather than challenging distorted thoughts, many therapists affirm them, mistaking empathy for effectiveness.
Rather than indulging patients in their shitlibbery, therapists can do more good by encouraging “cognitive reappraisal” — although they run the risk of alienating patients who may denounce them as white nationalist Christofascistic threats to Our Democracy.
TDS is a problem for normal people everywhere:
We can’t have a healthy democracy if half the country experiences the other half as a trauma trigger.
If Orange Man is the personification of evil, anyone who agrees with him on anything is evil. Yet Trump’s political success is largely due to taking no-brainer positions that no reasonable person could disagree with: defending the border from foreign invasion, cutting down on wasteful government spending, replacing DEI with merit, stalling the nuclear weapons program of Islamic maniacs who chant “Death to America,” not allowing men in women’s restrooms and sports, et cetera. It follows
that in the addled minds of shitilbs, people with reasonable views are evil.
Imagine these psychotic creatures consolidating control of the government nationally as they have been doing in
California and
New York, and you can see why finding a cure for TDS is of paramount importance.
