It is official according to therapists across the U.S., though not an “official” term for the diagnoses, they refer to it as “Trump Anxiety Disorder,” and the CBC report regarding the issue admits it is the same malady that Conservatives and Trump supporters call “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
Elisabeth LaMotte, founder of D.C. Counselling and Psychotherapy Center calls it “collective anxiety,” says her patients have “a fear of the world ending.”
What’s been called “Trump Anxiety Disorder” has been on the rise in the months following the election, according to mental-health professionals from across the country who report unusually high levels of politics-related stress in their practices. And it’s maybe not surprising given the relentlessly negative headlines and politically divisive climate.The symptoms include “a loss of control and helplessness, and fretting about what’s happening in the country and spending excessive time on social media.” Clinical psychologist Jennifer Panning of Evanston, Ill., coined the term “Trump Anxiety Disorder,” and said the “intense consumption of media coverage of this presidency is making some people’s Trump-related anxiety worse,” according to the CBC report. (Read more)