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[Mary Ann Parker]

I am sorry. I can hardly post this for laughing!
Enjoy this while we WORK to make it WORSE!!!
Kerry is on single digit time.

SAM, HERE ARE SOME NEW CLIENTS!!!
Mary Ann Parker
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Kerry Supporters Treated For 'Post-Election Selection Trauma' Following Bush Win
By Jimmy Moore
Talon News
November 10, 2004

http://www.gopusa.com/news/2004/november/1110_kerry_traumap.shtml

BOCA RATON, FL (Talon News) -- Fifteen supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John F. Kerry in Boca Raton, Florida have been treated for "post-election selection trauma" by licensed therapists over the past week following the abrupt end to the presidential election won by President George W. Bush.

The Boca Raton News reported on Monday that Florida psychologist Douglas Schooler has treated these clients with "intense hypnotherapy" to help them deal with the fact that Kerry conceded the election to Bush on Wednesday after realizing he did not have enough votes to win the Electoral College.

Schooler said his clients have revealed that they are "depressed and angry" and are "threatening to leave the country" because Bush won.

He added that these Kerry supporters are expressing feelings of "extreme anger, despair, hopelessness, powerlessness, a failure to function behaviorally, a sense of disillusionment, of not wanting to vote anymore."
"We're talking about a deep, unhealthy personal suffering that can best be remedied by intensive short-term therapy," Schooler noted to Boca Raton News. "They were emotionally paralyzed, shocked and devastated."

In fact, a young Kerry supporter from Georgia named Andrew Veal allegedly killed himself in New York City where the World Trade Center towers once stood over the weekend following Kerry's loss.

Mental health care doctors in South Florida say the expectations of Kerry supporters in Palm Beach County that the election would drag out for weeks due to a recount were dashed by the sudden end to the election just one day after the voting was conducted.

American Health Association Executive Director Rob Gordon, who was dispatched in 2001 to Ground Zero to assist the families of the victims of 9/11, said this "post-election selection trauma" is something "we're working to develop a counseling program for it."

"It's like post-traumatic stress syndrome, but it's a short-term shock rather than a childhood trauma," Gordon said in a statement, concerned that there may be other suicide attempts like the one that was done in New York.

"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 explained. "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."

Mental health care support groups, such as Emotions Anonymous in Boca Raton, in Florida and across the country have been told to be on alert for a massive surge in their numbers in the coming weeks as more Kerry supporters look for relief from their distress.

"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," a spokeswoman Emotions Anonymous told Boca Raton News.

But not all support groups are as quickly embracing these Kerry supporters with their emotional reaction to the election.
"We're referring people with election-related stress to the Democratic National Committee," commented Center for Group Counseling spokeswoman Karen Jacobs.

Jacobs said they will assist them as well as they can, but they are not equipped to help with "a specific program for Kerry-related trauma."
Schooler said he and other mental health care doctors are available to offer "election therapy" to patients who need a session to make sense of the results of the election.

"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," Schooler said. "I help them transform the anger into more positive emotions."

Copyright © 2004 Talon News -- All rights reserved.
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[Steve Z]

Oh, the poor dears, they can't vent their anger during a recount! Don't they know that there's NOT SUPPOSED TO BE a recount? The 2000 election was a rare exception where the decisive state was extremely close, but MOST elections are resolved the day after Election Day, when the loser concedes to the winner, and everybody on both sides gets on with their lives.

We Bush backers know how the Kerry voters feel--been there, done that. We saw a draft-dodging minority President who lost the popular vote, a southern-state governor, skate to victory over an experienced Senator and true war hero without a recount. He was totally unaccountable for his numerous and scandalous misdeeds, which he proceeded to repeat ad nauseam during his second term. Clinton over Dole in 1996. We endured for four more years and found a better candidate the next time.

The shoe is now on the other foot.
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The traitor will crater!

[scotty61]

When commenting on the vitriol that was such a part of Kerry's compaign, Charles Krauthammer wrote "if Kerry loses, his supporters will need more than understanding, they will need therapy". Guess Charles called this one.
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John Kerry. A Neville Chamberlain for our times.

[Doc Jerry K]

There are good medications out there that would help these people immensely. Then, there's always restraints.

Medics, we're there when you need us.

[army72]

Just when you think that they can't dream up any new syndromes, they pop up with this. The fact that these nutcases actually voted is scary.

They're getting used to hearing that theme from the left that the government will give you everything in your life. Can't take the fact that you don't get everything you want all the time. Sorry if I don't lose sleep over this one. I'm going to print it and show it around for laughs.

Some actually talked about moving out of the country? Would they have famous names and be living in Hollywood? I'll donate for their one way tickets.
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Hillary and Kerry in '08? Something smells!!

[neverforget]

There was no threat of loss of life for themselves or others nor was loss of life observed by them. This is not trauma, period. If there was any sense of loss of self, then it is entirely due to a pre-existing Narcissistic Personality Disorder condition, just like their hero.

At best, it is normal grief that is now being reified into pathology by clinicians who are as much lost in their way as their patients.
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