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USS_Dauntless

(143 posts)
Sun Nov 30, 2025, 08:02 PM Sunday

Fox News Shrink: TDS Is A "Mental Health Epidemic"

https://www.joemygod.com/2025/11/fox-news-shrink-tds-is-a-mental-health-epidemic/

“I am deeply, deeply concerned about what I’ve been seeing for almost 10 years now. We see great division in families and friendships broken up over how strongly they feel about Trump. 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.

https://www.joemygod.com/2025/11/fox-news-shrink-tds-is-a-mental-health-epidemic/

We hate Donald J. Trump. The rapist. The liar. The fascist. The insurrectionist. The thief. The divider. The creep. The war criminal.

We hate him. GET OVER IT. And yes, it is perfectly reasonable to shun, mock and revile those people in our lives that support this orange blight on the nation, the world and humanity itself.
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Fox News Shrink: TDS Is A "Mental Health Epidemic" (Original Post) USS_Dauntless Sunday OP
Any shrink that talks about Trump without commenting on his pathological narcissism tanyev Sunday #1
And an insult to mental healthcare workers EVERYWHERE. USS_Dauntless Sunday #5
Right wing gaslighting is designed to mess with your head. They are professional assholes and good at it. Blues Heron Sunday #2
Bed bugs rate over chump. kairos12 Sunday #3
Notice how they frame it Diraven Sunday #4
Right MustLoveBeagles Sunday #9
Does TDS stand for tiny dick syndrome? 2MuchNoise Sunday #6
hilarious vapor2 Sunday #7
Lol MustLoveBeagles Sunday #10
This is nothing more than a way to legitimize stamping out criticism against Dump sakabatou Sunday #8
This MustLoveBeagles Sunday #11
Russia used to declare political dissidents mentally ill and put them in mental hospitals dalton99a Sunday #12
This guy is known to be a self aggrandizing hack Tanuki Sunday #13
All these people have is projection. intheflow Sunday #14
In 1938, Neville Chamberlain SocialDemocrat61 Monday #15

tanyev

(48,421 posts)
1. Any shrink that talks about Trump without commenting on his pathological narcissism
Sun Nov 30, 2025, 08:08 PM
Sunday

is merely a gaslighter for hire.

Blues Heron

(8,111 posts)
2. Right wing gaslighting is designed to mess with your head. They are professional assholes and good at it.
Sun Nov 30, 2025, 08:11 PM
Sunday

Diraven

(1,767 posts)
4. Notice how they frame it
Sun Nov 30, 2025, 08:50 PM
Sunday

Everyone who hated Biden was perfectly normal, while everyone who hates Trump has a mental disorder.

dalton99a

(91,440 posts)
12. Russia used to declare political dissidents mentally ill and put them in mental hospitals
Sun Nov 30, 2025, 09:12 PM
Sunday
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry_in_the_Soviet_Union

There was systematic political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union,[1] based on the interpretation of political opposition or dissent as a psychiatric problem.[2] It was called "psychopathological mechanisms" of dissent.[3]

During the leadership of General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, psychiatry was used to disable and remove from society political opponents (Soviet dissidents) who openly expressed beliefs that contradicted the official dogma.[4][5] The term "philosophical intoxication", for instance, was widely applied to the mental disorders diagnosed when people disagreed with the country's Communist leaders and, by referring to the writings of the Founding Fathers of Marxism–Leninism—Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and Vladimir Lenin—made them the target of criticism.[6] Another common pseudo-diagnosis was "sluggish schizophrenia".

Article 58-10 of the Stalin-era Criminal Code, "Anti-Soviet agitation", was to a considerable degree preserved in the new 1958 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Criminal Code as Article 70 "Anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda". In 1967, a weaker law, Article 190-1 "Dissemination of fabrications known to be false, which defame the Soviet political and social system", was added to the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Criminal Code. These laws were frequently applied in conjunction with the system of diagnosis for mental illness, developed by academician Andrei Snezhnevsky. Together, they established a framework within which non-standard beliefs could easily be defined as a criminal offence and the basis, subsequently, for a psychiatric diagnosis.[7]

The "anti-Soviet" political behavior of some individuals – being outspoken in their opposition to the authorities, demonstrating for reform, and writing critical books – were defined simultaneously as criminal acts (e.g., a violation of Articles 70 or 190–1), symptoms of mental illness (e.g., "delusion of reformism" ), and susceptible to a ready-made diagnosis (e.g., "sluggish schizophrenia" ).[8] Within the boundaries of the diagnostic category, the symptoms of pessimism, poor social adaptation and conflict with authorities were themselves sufficient for a formal diagnosis of "sluggish schizophrenia".[9]

The psychiatric incarceration of certain individuals was prompted by their attempts to emigrate, to distribute or possess prohibited documents or books, to participate in civil rights protests and demonstrations, and become involved in forbidden religious activities.[10] In accordance with the doctrine of state atheism, the religious beliefs of prisoners, including those of well-educated former atheists who had become adherents of a religious faith, was considered to be a form of mental illness that required treatment.[11][12] The KGB routinely sent dissenters to psychiatrists for diagnosis, in order to discredit dissidence as the product of unhealthy minds and to avoid the embarrassment caused by public trials.[13] Highly classified government documents that became available after the dissolution of the Soviet Union confirm that the authorities consciously used psychiatry as a tool to suppress dissent.[14]

Tanuki

(16,222 posts)
13. This guy is known to be a self aggrandizing hack
Sun Nov 30, 2025, 09:35 PM
Sunday

From 2012:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/toddessig/2012/04/23/jonathan-alperts-mis-statements-and-possible-misconduct/

"Jonathan Alpert's Mis-Statements, And Possible Misconduct

An intentionally provocative opinion piece about psychotherapy was just published in the NY Times by Jonathan Alpert. Well, it worked. I’ve been provoked. Alpert is an apparently proud fellow who uses his web-site to trumpet being called “Manhattan’s most media-friendly psychotherapist.” In the article he lays claim to a style of psychotherapy that is a unique advance because unlike others he actually helps patients change. Other people, people like me, what we do is waste our patients lives so we can get paid. According to him relaxing “spa appointments” rather than anything useful are what people get from me and my kind.

How did this get past the Times editors? It is so clearly designed as an infomercial for selling the author’s go-for-the-gusto change-your-life in 28 days book. Plus the article is dangerous. It perpetuates the myth that psychotherapy is inefficient, ineffective snake oil, relaxing to be sure but snake oil nonetheless. In so doing it erects an unnecessary conceptual obstacle to getting help that someone might need. And it does this solely for the purpose of advertising Alpert’s brilliant advance that people need “an aggressive therapist” who’ll tell them what to do and kick their butts till they do it.
...

The fact is that some people benefit from short-term treatment, even I’m sure from Alpert, and others from long-term, even open-ended treatment. Some patients need one, some the other. And some therapists are good at doing one kind of treatment and not the other. Some both. But no one benefits from distorting research in the service of self-promotion, which is what Alpert apparently did. He disingenuously cherry-picked studies to make himself sound far more reasonable than he is, and also got some of the research fundamentally wrong trying to make his point that people need “an aggressive therapist.”

He just ignored as though it doesn’t exist important research that counters his “buy my book” message, research that has appeared, for example, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, a follow-up in The British Journal of Psychiatry, and an instant classic from the American Psychologist. Worst of all given his topic, he ignored a famous 1995 Consumer Reports survey that was then discussed by Martin Seligman that “concluded that patients benefited very substantially from psychotherapy, that long-term treatment did considerably better than short-term treatment.”...(more)

intheflow

(29,914 posts)
14. All these people have is projection.
Sun Nov 30, 2025, 11:49 PM
Sunday

In a non-Orwellian world, “Trump Derangement Syndrome” would be recognized as the underlying mindset of the MAGA cult.

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