Trump Derangement Syndrome Sufferers Looking For Ways to Cope on Inauguration Day
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:
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.[…][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.
[…]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.
Accordingly, people have thoughts:
I tend to agree with the last guy. This isn’t normal behavior. It’s just not.
-Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter/X.-
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