How is your mental health, since Trump?

Flint · 02-24-2017, 01:10 PM

Moderators, could you please add this poll to the thread by the same name?

Thank you in advance, if you get a chance to do this for me.

footfootfoot · 02-24-2017, 02:06 PM

My mental health, at the moment is at a very low point but for reasons that have little to do directly with trump, although possibly indirectly.

However, it is hard to assign to trump's election either correlation or causation the my decline in mental health considering all the other factors that have been eroding it for the past few years. I can say with certainty that his election definitely hasn't improved my mental health, and I'm willing to bet his policies and other crazy ass behavior will, in the long run, further diminish it.

It is also likely that it has negatively affected it in ways that I don't overtly notice. The tricky thing with mental health, specifically depression, is that it can come on so slowly that you don't really notice it until it is already too late. Analogous to 'bonking' or 'hitting the wall'; by the time you are too hungry or too thirsty it is already too late.

So the depression creeps up and the new reality is that everything is bleak and hopeless, always has been and always will be. There is no future nor joy. There is an emotional blackout.

Now throw trump into the mix and intellectually, you know he isn't ameliorating any of the despair, but it's just one more straw on the pile. For me, at least.

If I was a happy go lucky Muslim immigrant with an overstayed visa then it would be more like dropping an entire hayrick on my back.

Undertoad · 02-24-2017, 02:18 PM

It doesn't appear to be possible to move a poll to a different thread. we can close the earlier thread and move xoB's response to this one. I think

View Poll Results: How has your mental state been affected by Trump's campaign / presidency?
Feel better, +10	1	6.25%
Feel better, +9	1	6.25%
Feel better, +8	0	0%
Feel better, +7	1	6.25%
Feel better, +6	0	0%
Feel better, +5	0	0%
Feel better, +4	0	0%
Feel better, +3	0	0%
Feel better, +2	1	6.25%
Feel better, +1	0	0%
No effect / feel the same.	2	12.50%
Feel worse, +1	1	6.25%
Feel worse, +2	2	12.50%
Feel worse, +3	1	6.25%
Feel worse, +4	0	0%
Feel worse, +5	0	0%
Feel worse, +6	1	6.25%
Feel worse, +7	1	6.25%
Feel worse, +8	0	0%
Feel worse, +9	0	0%
Feel worse, +10	4	25.00%
Voters: 16. You may not vote on this poll

02-24-2017, 01:10 PM	#1
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	How is your mental health, since Trump? ( POLL ) Moderators, could you please add this poll to the thread by the same name? Thank you in advance, if you get a chance to do this for me. __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

02-24-2017, 02:06 PM	#2
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	My mental health, at the moment is at a very low point but for reasons that have little to do directly with trump, although possibly indirectly. However, it is hard to assign to trump's election either correlation or causation the my decline in mental health considering all the other factors that have been eroding it for the past few years. I can say with certainty that his election definitely hasn't improved my mental health, and I'm willing to bet his policies and other crazy ass behavior will, in the long run, further diminish it. It is also likely that it has negatively affected it in ways that I don't overtly notice. The tricky thing with mental health, specifically depression, is that it can come on so slowly that you don't really notice it until it is already too late. Analogous to 'bonking' or 'hitting the wall'; by the time you are too hungry or too thirsty it is already too late. So the depression creeps up and the new reality is that everything is bleak and hopeless, always has been and always will be. There is no future nor joy. There is an emotional blackout. Now throw trump into the mix and intellectually, you know he isn't ameliorating any of the despair, but it's just one more straw on the pile. For me, at least. If I was a happy go lucky Muslim immigrant with an overstayed visa then it would be more like dropping an entire hayrick on my back. __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

02-24-2017, 02:18 PM	#3
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	It doesn't appear to be possible to move a poll to a different thread. we can close the earlier thread and move xoB's response to this one. I think

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