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[Inatizzy]

This is freaking hilarious. These people have LOST it. Running to a therapist because you lost in an election? Post traumatic election syndrome??? OH MY GAWD!!

Kerry supporters seek therapy in South Florida
Boca Raton trauma specialist has treated 15 patients

Published Tuesday, November 9, 2004
by Sean Salai

More than a dozen traumatized John Kerry supporters have sought and received therapy from a licensed Florida psychologist since their candidate lost to President Bush, the Boca Raton News learned Monday.

Boca Raton trauma specialist Douglas Schooler said he has treated 15 clients and friends with “intense hypnotherapy” since the Democratic nominee conceded last Wednesday.

“I had one friend tell me he’s never been so depressed and angry in his life,” Schooler said. “I observed patients threatening to leave the country or staring listlessly into space. They were emotionally paralyzed, shocked and devastated.”

Schooler’s disclosure comes after the weekend discovery of a Kerry volunteer’s corpse at Ground Zero in New York City. Georgia resident Andrew Veal, 25, reportedly killed himself with a shotgun blast to the head due to Kerry’s loss and a girlfriend problem.

Some mental health professionals in South Florida said Monday they have already developed a new category for the Kerry-related stress reactions. Because Palm Beach County voted heavily for Kerry, the therapists said, many residents hurt themselves by so anxiously expecting the Massachusetts senator to win – especially those who maintained unrealistic recount hopes after their candidate’s concession.

“We’re calling it ‘post-election selection trauma’ and we’re working to develop a counseling program for it,” said Rob Gordon, the Boca-based executive director of the American Health Association. “It’s like post-traumatic stress syndrome, but it’s a short-term shock rather than a childhood trauma.”

Gordon, the first American Red Cross psychotherapist sent to Ground Zero after the 9/11 terror attacks, said therapists’ main concern is to prevent the recurrence of Kerry-related suicides like the one in New York City.

“There are definitely people depressed by John Kerry’s loss, and this can easily lead to suicides like the one we saw up in New York this weekend,” Gordon said. “Luckily, it can be treated if people seek help. We’re urging people to call us immediately if they feel depressed or know anyone who is seriously stressed out.”

Also in Boca, at least one counseling center and an emotional support group were preparing for an influx of Kerry supporters at their first post-election meetings today.

“We’ll let the Kerry voters talk about it and let off some steam, and by listening to other people’s stories, we’ll help them refocus and surrender to the things in their life which they can’t possibly change,” said a spokeswoman for Emotions Anonymous, a recovery group meeting tonight at Glades Presbyterian Church.

“We’re referring people with election-related stress to the Democratic National Committee,” said Karen Jacobs of the Center for Group Counseling. “We’ll do what we can for anyone who shows up for our support group programs this week, but we haven’t implemented a specific program for Kerry-related trauma.”

Schooler, practicing in Boca since 1984, said he treated his 15 patients last week with hypnosis-based rapid response trauma therapy. This week, he is charging a sliding fee to non-clients who feel they need the one-time “election therapy” session. South Floridians can contact him at 561-395-3033.

“A lot of Kerry voters don’t know what to do with their anger, because there was no recount, so they’ve kept it bottled up,” said Schooler, who also is a certified sex therapist. “I help them transform the anger into more positive emotions.”

Asked to describe symptoms of the post-election trauma, Schooler said, “They include feelings of extreme anger, despair, hopelessness, powerlessness, a failure to function behaviorally, a sense of disillusionment, of not wanting to vote anymore – that sort of thing. We’re talking about a deep, unhealthy personal suffering that can best be remedied by intensive short-term therapy.”

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[Bystander]

Oh those poor babies! I lived through 8 yrs. of WJC and didn't need therapy. Although I admit I felt those who put him in office did!
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[neverforget]

I think Aristotle the Hun works somewhere in Florida, but I'm sure he wouldn't be the above mentioned therapist.
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[Inatizzy]

Ever noticed how "therapist" could also be "the rapist".

[Taylor]

Oh please,

Bunch of wimp whinos!
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[msindependent]

A sex therapist for post election trama - I'd say they are getting screwed.
And that guy killed himself at the WTC because he had two girl friends, not because of W.

[JannDallas]

Well maybe they can get John Edwards to sue all Republicans for causing their emotional and whatever else distress. He needs a job now and they have blamed everything else on Bush, why not this too?

[GIaunt]

It figures.... these people have really bought into the Dems doom/gloom messages of the election --- this republic has been through MANY bad times & even a civil war.....

The constitution is an amazing foundation for our country and I don't see it cracking ---

Oh, well, let them spend their money on therapy....

[Chuck54]

Going to a therapist sure beats the riots that were anticipated and even planned.

Geez, a republican therapist listening to dems give their story of woe would have hard time from keeping from smirking.
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"And no pair has been more wrong, more loudly, more often, than the two Senators from Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy and John Kerry"

Zell Miller

[FreeFall]

I think these folks would have needed therapy even if Kerry won.

[Digger]

OOHHH YYYYEEEAAAHHH!!!
This is like Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz. Now we get to see the reality behind all the smoke and mirrors. Kerry went "POOF" and the liberals went"OOF"

Hollow man
Hologram
spectre of light and mirrors
Silly empty mindless sham
Theology of errors

You offered up your sacrifice
and named him "Holy Host"
But the spirit he contained
was not the 'Holy Ghost"

You thought you had a victory
but what you did not see
the thing that did your efforts in
was the truth of history

You thought that you could lie and spin
and weave a pretty tale
but deception's not an easy thing
to live with when you fail

Remember the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth
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Hey swifty, I'm with you, Just watch you don't get "Kerry'd away in the propwash

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[sleeplessinseattle]

[Anker-Klanker]

You did catch the acronynm for that new trauma, didn't you:

Post-Election Selection Trauma

[Kimmymac]

They didn't get their Global Test, so now they all have PEST.

and but mostly just

If losing an election is all it takes to rock their world, they must have pretty lousy foundations.

I wish I knew the email addresses of all these suffering PESTs. I would send them the GLOAT slideshow.

Because, you know...I just want to help...

because....

I am....

A....

Compassionate Conservative....



BWAHAHAHHA HEEHEE BWHAHAHHA
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