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[Inatizzy]

I'm sure Rush is quivering in his Gucci loafers......NOT.

Link to the story is on Drudge.

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Psychologists blast Rush Limbaugh for mocking traumatized Kerry voters
Post Election Selection Trauma is a real problem, Florida clinicians say

Published Tuesday, November 16, 2004 at 1:00 am
by Sean Salai


Mental health officials in South Florida blasted Rush Limbaugh on Monday, saying the conservative talk show host’s offer of “free therapy” for traumatized John Kerry voters has made a mockery of a valid psychological problem.
“Rush Limbaugh has a way of back-handedly slamming people,” said Sheila Cooperman, a licensed clinician with the American Health Association (AHA) who listened Friday as Limbaugh offered to personally treat her patients. “He’s trying to ridicule the emotional state this presidential election produced in many of us here in Palm Beach County. Who is he to offer therapy?”
The Boca Raton News reported last week that more than 30 distraught Kerry supporters in South Florida contacted the non-profit AHA following their candidate’s Nov. 3 concession to President Bush. AHA officials have diagnosed the disorder as Post Election Selection Trauma (PEST) and have scheduled the first of several free group therapy sessions for just after Thanksgiving.
Cooperman, whose professional practice is based in Delray Beach, said the election-related symptoms she sees in the Kerry supporters more than quality PEST as “a legitimate syndrome or disorder within the trauma spectrum,” according to the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
“Rush Limbaugh has no clinical qualifications to counsel anyone,” Cooperman said. “He’s not only minimizing PEST, but he’s bastardizing the entire psychological field and our clinical expertise.”
Rob Gordon, AHA executive director, said Limbaugh’s radio musings caused the charity to receive hundreds of calls and letters from gloating Republicans. But he said he also received a small batch of letters and e-mails from people who said they understood why some Kerry voters would need therapy.
A man named Paul wrote to AHA, “I too was very depressed, and I knew a lot people who felt the same way. You have to understand that to many of us, this was the key election about the future of our country, and with a Bush win that future is pretty much destroyed. Naturally, there’s going to be some significant grief.”
“The people here in Palm Beach County now in therapy or support groups are the canaries in the mine shaft,” Gordon said. “There could be thousands of others, even Republicans, who need to be in therapy over this election.”
Gordon said the AHA on Monday also received its first out-of-state call – from a fixed-income woman in Texas who is “absolutely terrified of what Bush will do” – and scheduled a free telephone therapy session with her for today.
Douglas Schooler, the Boca Raton trauma specialist who treated 20 people with hypnotherapy following Kerry’s loss, said he believes many people suffering from election-related symptoms are still afraid to step forward.“The Republicans want Kerry voters to shut up and pretend they’re not feeling anything,” Schooler said. “But many people have serious emotional pain over this election and it’s unhealthy to stuff it down inside of you. Therapy is the best way.”
Although Schooler said he never listens to Limbaugh, he said he has been deluged by similar phone calls and attacked on South Florida’s radio talk shows.
“Most of the calls I’m getting are from Republicans making fun of the whole thing,” Schooler said. “One guy wrote me a letter saying I should tell people to vote Republican and save themselves the stress. Republicans want to minimize the whole story of election fraud and voter anger.”
Schooler said he did not expect the Republican gloating to stop anytime soon.
Limbaugh, a Palm Beach County resident who owns $26 million worth of property in the area, read the two Boca News exclusives on his nationally syndicated radio program last week.
“So if anybody on the left wants some serious therapy here and counseling, I’m more than willing to offer my assistance as well,” Limbaugh said on Nov. 9.
On Nov. 12, accused by Gordon of picking up the story to rub it in the faces of Democrats, Limbaugh said, “Now, my friends, I didn’t do that. I reached out. I offered a hand of friendship. I offered my own counseling services.”
AHA officials, listening to the taped broadcasts, described Limbaugh’s tone of voice as sarcastic.

[shooter]

I can see it now!

Man suffering from PEST vandalizes vehicles with Bush/Cheney stickers.

My heart bleeds purple panther pi$$......


P.E.S.T. = Elitist snobs disease
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[DaveL]

Rush's radio show is pure entertainment based on current political events. I love it! If I didn't enjoy listening to him, if he didn't make me laugh, I would change to a different station!

Listening to Al Franken's radio show would cause me distress...why would anyone do that to themselves?!

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[MSeeger]

I don't put much stock in psychologists. They don't need a medical degree to practice, just a Ph.D, if I'm not mistaken. Anybody who can afford it can go to college and earned such a degree and set up their shingle. Of course, I know they have an organisation and allegedly they have standards that they must answer to.

But, really, have you heard any reputable psychiatrist come out to talk about this serious traumatic mental disorder? I have to wonder if the psychiatric community isn't laughing behind its hand at these psychologists in Florida. I have a feeling they don't want to lose their credibilty over this issue.

Maria
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Be not deceived, God is not mocked, for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. Gal. 6:7

[scotty61]

Thank God for Bush's tax cuts. Otherwise these poor souls would not be able to afford professional help!
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John Kerry. A Neville Chamberlain for our times.

[Steve Z]

Actually, "Paul" in the article was right about one thing: "this was the key election about the future of our country". He just doesn't realize yet that this election SAVED the country's future, rather than destroying it.

Earth to disappointed lefties in Pea Brain County: We feel your pain--we REALLY do. We felt it when Clinton, a known rapist and cocaine peddler, won in 1992 with 43% of the vote, and proceeded to corrupt our country into the gutter, and won re-election over an honest war hero in 1996.

Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good, and Clinton was LUCKY that Bin Laden and Al Qaeda didn't hit the WTC during his terms. I wonder, what would Al Gore have done after 9/11 if he was President? How would Al Gore have rescued the airmen taken prisoner by the Chinese in April 2001? How would Al Gore have reacted to the North Korean nuclear threat, after the North Koreans fooled both him and Clinton for six years?

The Swifties and POWs and other Vietnam Veterans feel your pain even more strongly...they endured torture and ridicule for decades due to John Kerry's lies, and FINALLY won a (political) battle against him!

In a two-party system, one party will lose each election. We summoned up courage, endured eight years of Clinton, and found a better candidate.
Now it's the Democrats' turn. Time to stop Kerrying on, and start looking for a better candidate. If this country survived 8 years of Bill Clinton, it can certainly survive 8 years of George W. Bush!
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The traitor will crater!

[lrb111]

Psychologists, who are overwhelmingly liberal anyway, can't chase ambulances. So, they have one viable option for new clients.
"Create a crisis."
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said Democratic Chairman Terry McAuliffe. "It is inexcusable to mock service and sacrifice."
well, when even the DNC can see it,,,,, then kerry is toast.

[Armybrat/Armymom]

No one came to my aid when I was in a blue funk when Clinton won.

[neverforget]

Well, "I were one," although just have an M.S., and you are right about most psychologists. They are overwhelmingly leftist.

My point of view is that diagnosing narcissistic and histrionic personality disordered people---and make no mistake, that's what most of these people are---with having a trumped-up trauma is about the most contra-indicated thing a therapist can do.
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[Inatizzy]

If I was a psychologist, you know what I'd tell these people?


"You're an idiot and you deserve to have your a$$ kicked"

"That will be $125"

NEXT...

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[Gryffin]

Anybody wanna bet that we'll see this as a courtroom defense for somebody having committed a violent crime within the next year or so?

[jwb7605]

Rush said on his show today that he was more qualified than these bozos to give counselling ... then he proved it by replaying a 9-minute phone call.

PLUS, Rush does it for "free"