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Tuesday, July 31, 2018
 
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In a divided U.S., therapists treating anxiety are hearing the same name over and over: Donald Trump. 'Trump Anxiety Disorder' may not be an official diagnosis, but therapists know the symptoms
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the founder of the D.C. Counselling and Psychotherapy Center refers to it as a "collective anxiety" among patients who feel on edge about how potentially dire the president's decisions could be.

"There is a fear of the world ending," she said. "It's very disorienting and constantly unsettling."

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.

This week, it was a menacing all-caps Trump tweet warning Iran about potentially historic "CONSEQUENCES." Previously, it was his Supreme Court picks and fears that the legal right to abortion could be overturned, or his immigration policies separating families at the border, or his apparent submission to Russian President Vladimir Putin before a global audience.
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The symptoms

In a 2017 essay for a book co-edited by psychiatrists from Harvard Medical School and the Yale School of Medicine, clinical psychologist Jennifer Panning of Evanston, Ill., called the condition "Trump Anxiety Disorder," distinguishing it from a generalized anxiety disorder because "symptoms were specific to the election of Trump and the resultant unpredictable sociopolitical climate."
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the symptoms include feeling a loss of control and helplessness, and fretting about what's happening in the country and spending excessive time on social media, she said.

(Trump and his supporters, for their part, have their own term for a malady they see as afflicting only reactionary, anti-Trump progressives: "Trump Derangement Syndrome.")
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intense consumption of media coverage of this presidency is making some people's Trump-related anxiety worse.
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-anxiety-disorder-mental-health-political-divide-us-1.4762487
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-anxiety-disorder-mental-health-political-divide-us-1.4762487

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