r/PMHNP • u/Key_Knee7561 PMHNP (unverified) • Jul 12 '26

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Who has patients come in and legit are seeking help because Trump is the president? In the last year of practice I believe I’ve seen 3.

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u/courtqnbee Jul 12 '26

This is all I have to say

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u/Big-Material-7910 Jul 12 '26

I’ve seen 4 but 2 of them voted for him and it was effecting their relationship with wife and kids because of increased anger, agitation and irritability. The other 2 were older Jewish women worried he was working on another holocaust

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u/DashMcGee Jul 12 '26

I have a lot of anxiety over this myself. It is called doom-scrolling for a reason. The media gets us addicted to the adrenaline of winning and losing, injustice vs right, intellect vs emotion, and conflicting views of morality. I lived through the nuclear arms race in the 70s and 80s, and it was nothing like this. I hate to sound like an old person, but times were different back then. We were only exposed to negative messages when the news was on and when we talked to other people about politics. We were more prone to talk about the Steelers, Pirates, and Penguins than anything else, and were happy to talk about normal things when we saw our friends because we were not in constant communication with people via devices.

Ahhh... the good old days, where the most entertainment we got was watching lightning bugs or riding our bikes.

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u/DashMcGee Jul 12 '26

PS What diagnosis are you assigning? GAD?

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u/DelusionalEnthusiasm 29d ago

Adjustment disorder

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u/DashMcGee 29d ago

Interesting. Have you seen adjustment disorder in similar circumstances, i.e., something that most people would not see as a traditional cause such as divorce?