"I am deeply, deeply concerned about what I've been seeingfor almost 10 years now. We see great division in families and friendships broken up over how strongly they feel about Trump, Alpert said. What I'm seeing is symptoms that in many ways mirror other disorders. People are anxious, they're angry, they can't sleep. One person even said she couldn't possibly enjoy a family vacation as long as Trump is out there."
"I had patients who hated Joe Biden, but it never rose to the point where they wanted him dead or would stay up at night, obsessing over Joe Biden the way that they do over Trump, Alpert said. And that's where I think the pathology comes into play, if it's affecting your life that profoundly. And I would even go so far as to call this a mental health epidemic, and in some ways the defining pathology of the past decade."
Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) describes intense, prolonged fixation on Donald Trump and his fate that disrupts daily functioning, relationships, and wellbeing. Symptoms include anxiety, anger, sleeplessness, obsessive rumination, and impaired ability to enjoy ordinary activities. The fixation can create severe interpersonal division, breaking up families and friendships and dominating therapy sessions. The severity can exceed ordinary political dislike and sometimes includes extreme beliefs or fears that lack factual basis. Therapeutic work focuses on distinguishing fact from unproven or exaggerated claims and reducing the obsessional focus so daily life and relationships can be restored.
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