Trump Derangement Syndrome Sufferers Looking For Ways to Cope on Inauguration Day
“It might seem counterintuitive, but if you need to shed a few tears on Inauguration Day, it’s healthy to let them out with one caveat: You shouldn’t do it alone.”
At Donald Trump’s 2017 presidential inauguration ceremony, a clearly distraught leftist woman was caught on video having a complete meltdown, screaming and crying, and later apologizing to “my world” for not being able to stop Trump’s election.
The woman, identified as Jessica Starr (seen above), also spoke to ITV News, which captured the video clip that has since sparked countless memes:
“There’s no way to even comprehend what this means,” she said, weeping uncontrollably. “For me, this very moment, is like, within a cell, it’s like the dark and the light are so tight right now, in this moment, there’s so much potential for beauty and for devastation in this one moment, its almost incomprehensible that they can exist right now, so so close.
“I am so sorry to my world,” Starr added. “This is not what we want…This is so alien…This is so false and broken.”
Here’s some of the video footage from her meltdown:
Remember how this woman reacted when Trump won the election back in 2016?
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— Defiant World (@DefiantWorld) October 15, 2024
Eight years later, sufferers of Trump Derangement Syndrome are trying to figure out new ways to cope ahead of Inauguration Day, when President-Elect Trump will be sworn in as America’s 47th president. Among the recommendations from TIME Magazine are group crying and something called “forest bathing”:
Why so much distress after months of processing the outcome of this divisive election? Many people are probably catastrophizing, experts say, a cognitive distortion that involves fixating on the worst possible outcome and believing it’s bound to happen. The thinking goes like this: “‘Oh my God, if everything is going to have to be that way, and follow that thread, then we’re all going to die,’” says Emiliana Simon-Thomas, science director at the University of California at Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center.
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[Therapist Anindita] Bhaumik just spent a week in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, where she enjoyed counting the trees and observing their long, bare branches. She knows they’ll look different a few months from now, when green buds reappear, and again when their leaves turn yellow, red, and then brown.
On Inauguration Day, do your own forest bathing, Bhaumik suggests: Spend time in nature using your senses to connect with the environment.
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It might seem counterintuitive, but if you need to shed a few tears on Inauguration Day, it’s healthy to let them out with one caveat: You shouldn’t do it alone. “The grace and speed with which somebody recovers from grief if they have an opportunity to cry with the support of another person—someone who they trust and who they believe cares about them—is orders of magnitude improved,” Simon-Thomas says.
Other news outlets have noted that virtual mental health clinics will be on standby to help anti-Trump types process through the day:
“A lot of people were saying that their clients were bringing up a lot of like, anxiety and unease, just not knowing what’s going to happen in the future,” psychotherapist and Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Deb Dunman said. “And we were trying to brainstorm, like, resources, things we could do to help.”
That’s when they decided to start post-election anxiety group therapy sessions.
Have you been experiencing post-election/Inauguration Day anxiety?
The virtual mental health clinic Modyfi Health says their patients are — and created group sessions to help process.
One of their therapists offers tips you can implement now on #GetUpDC. @wusa9 pic.twitter.com/mTX3VE3K1b
— Jess Arnold (@JessArnoldTV) January 13, 2025
Accordingly, people have thoughts:
Or you could just be an adult and go on with your life like every other day. https://t.co/vQzHSp35Tv
— David Willford (@Dave_Willford) January 18, 2025
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— JT Badenov (@cbinflux) January 18, 2025
Really? we MUST have a serious mental health crisis in our country! bizzaro times we are living in. https://t.co/qymudZsfgr
— Dan
(@Dan20510671) January 17, 2025
I tend to agree with the last guy. This isn’t normal behavior. It’s just not.
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There’s nothing normal as to what America has become
One way that Trump Derangement Suffers can cope is to come to Legal Insurrection and post negative comments.
Oh wait! They’re already doing that!
TDS suffers would be even more distraught from the replies. China has been pushing a drug in America which cures TDS.
Chewable gummies version of fentanyl was a challenge, but they came through!
Speaking of which, where’s JR?
They shouldn’t have to suffer in silence. Four more years of screaming futilely at the sky can only do them good.
Tomorrow is Trump Derangement Syndrome Day. I think it should be made a national holiday.
I’m going to go out on a limb here but maybe, as a suggestion, lefties might want to take a break from social media for a day or two until after Trumps inauguration
Many will never figure out that it’s they, with all their education and privilege and globalist ideas, not everyone else who are the dumb ones.
I think Polar Plunging would be very therapeutic.
Volcanic plunging even more so.
“I am so sorry to my world,” Starr added. “This is not what we want…This is so alien…This is so false and broken.”
It’s not your world, it’s OUR world, and our country, both of which will become significantly better tomorrow at noon.
I’m sure that, eight years on, she is still alive and living better than 3/4s the planet, still blissfully unaware how good she has it.
Someone should find her and interview her, now that she has already survived his first term and then lived through 4 years of life under Biden/Harris.
For many midnights we can expect to hear them howling at the moon.
It is healthy to purge the idiot manifestation via guttural crying with the face turned skyward.
Go see a shrink. You can cry together.
True. Most psychologists are liberal. I recall reading an article following Trump’s first election or inauguration about how many psychologists were themselves dealing with anxiety and depression. Many were saying they would have difficulty providing therapy for a Trump supporter. Ridiculous, of course. As a trained professional they should be able to leave personal biases “at the door.”
The beating heart of liberalism in Medicine started and remains in the Psychiatric specialties. That’s why I moved back to physical medicine 20 years ago I saw what was coming. Instead of treating mental illness psychiatrics no longer makes mentally ill people take responsibility for their actions and tells them that it’s because of (Insert insane liberal boogy man here) that is the reason. Back when I left it was becoming “How society has treated them.” That was the moment I knew it was time to leave. What you see now is the natural outcome of that doctrine.
More like all the professional societies have been fatally infected. We just watched the American Bar Association back up Joe’s lunatic assertion that the ERA amendment was actually approved. How long do you think it will take them to repair their reputation after that boner? My hope is never.
Not a shrink but I went out with a psycho therapist for a bit and met quite a number of other ones in 2 different states. They are all wackos, stay away from them.
These are very sick people. They should seek help.
IMO anyone who has actually watched the abysmal performance of a Biden administration not run by President Biden and is still having a TDS problem, here are 3 suggestions – read up thoroughly on what your party has delivered to the residents of LA, study the pardon list to be released shortly and go some place to get deprogrammed.
Also read up on what democrats have done for North Carolina…..
ZIPPO, NADA,ZERO. some have no homes and it’s snowing in arts of NC.
Learn to pick fruit and do lawn care according to your lapdog media all those jobs s will be waiting when your hand outs end
We won.
Stop letting these people live in your head. Go on. Be happy.
While you are at it, feel free to start “dead naming” all the pronoun people who held you at gun point for the past 5 years.
Yeah- I just watched The Fountainhead again last night. Their violence in the face of your nonconformance proves how right you were/are and how evil they are.
“University of California at Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center.”
I can’t help but feel that the name tells you a lot about its value!
“It might seem counterintuitive, but if you need to shed a few tears on Inauguration Day, it’s healthy to let them out with one caveat: You shouldn’t do it alone.”
Get together with friends and drink. It needn’t be expensive, either. Here’s a website with several little-known but dynamite cocktail recipes based on ordinary rubbing alcohol and turpentine.
The wokiestas gotta be incredibly frustrated. They believed they had ‘defeated’ Trump and vanquished MAGA/Tea Party/Center right Populist movement in ’20. Then they pulled out every play in their playbook to keep it that way …but lost in ’24. Not just EC vote but popular vote + the HoR and Senate. That had to be soul crushing for wokiestas who believe they are entitled to victory.
The deluge of wokiesta tears, sky screaming and gibbering incoherence on Monday will be delightful.
If I were Trump, I’d erect a giant viewscreen to entertain the screaming mob outside, playing a video loop on infinite repeat of every single instance where a liberal commentator taunted some Republican interviewee with the question, “Will you pledge to accept the results of the upcoming election?”
Celebrate Martin Luther King Day and ignore the inauguration. Simple.
Any liberals who can’t figure that out are dumber than doorknobs.
Any liberals who can’t turn off the news for a day are political addicts and should get therapy for the addiction, never mind the trauma it causes.
I’ve turned off the news for MULTIPLE inaugurations that I thought were terrible news for the country.
Perhaps you missed the part where they have institutionally cancelled Martin Luther King.
Judging someone by the content of their character instead of by the color of their skin is now denounced as “racist color-blindness!”
I’m just waiting for the day when Saul Alinsky’s Lucifer is the single remaining hero of the old left that the modern left hasn’t cancelled.
Where were all these services and advice for us, in 2009, 2013, and 2021? Nowhere. Were we not at least as depressed and angry then as these nutcases are now?
Okay, maybe not. We knew — well, most of us knew — that there was no way 0bama or Biden could destroy the country in just four years, or even eight, and no matter how much damage they did there would still be a country and a world to recover afterwards.
But you have to admit Biden gave it a damn good run.
And if it hadn’t been for Putin actually being LESS crazy than Joe was — not to mention Those Meddling Yids — he would have gotten away with it, too.
Yeah, it’s very odd. I managed to go outside, walk around the woods (ok, cutting firewood and hunting), go to work every day and I didn’t need a group hug, cry or online therapy session to do it.
Now you know what Vivek was talking about with the H1B visa’s and why the Democrats were so insistent on flooding our country with illegals. Apparently there are millions of people incapable of leaving the house when something they don’t like happens. Someone has to work.
Yeah, it’s very odd. I managed to go outside, walk around the woods (ok, cutting firewood and hunting), go to work every day and I didn’t need a group hug, cry or online therapy session to do it. Strangely, no-one I knew needed any of that either to go on with their lives.
What they need is swift kick in the ass!
Whan I was born, Truman was president. I can’t remember the last time the way I live my life was affected significantly by who was in the White House. Time before last when I went to the DMV, I was served by someone who went by the name Tracy, wore a dress, had an Adam’s apple and needed a shave. But I got my plates renewed quickly and easily. On another occasion, I went to the airport and the TSA lady who tried to check my passport couldn’t open it because her fingernails were too long. I complained to the TSA that the ability to open a passport should be a fundamental requirement of the job of checking passports. But it had nothing to do with who was in the White House. I bought a SUV with twin superchargers that takes premium gas — while Biden was in the White House. Everyone needs to re-watch Meatballs and remember, “IT JUST DOESN’T MATTER!”
“I can’t remember the last time the way I live my life was affected significantly by who was in the White House.”
Not hard for me: the 55 MPH speed limit years.