“Trump Derangement Syndrome” or “Snowflake Derangement Syndrome”?

This article appeared yesterday on YWN:

WATCH: Therapist Warns of “Mental Health Epidemic” as “Trump Derangement Syndrome” Consumes Patients

The main content is:

The term “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” frequently used by Trump and his supporters, typically refers to people they believe are irrationally consumed by the president’s every word and action. But Alpert says the reality is more serious — and more widespread — than a political insult.

Alpert described patients struggling with anxiety, anger, and insomnia – symptoms he says mimic those of other diagnosed disorders. For some, he said, the fixation on Trump has reached levels that interfere with routine life.

“We see great division in families and friendships broken up over how strongly they feel about Trump,” he said. “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.”

These are, he stressed, “hallmark features of any disorder that I treat every day of the week,” and therefore warrant serious concern.

Alpert said that heightened emotions around political figures are nothing new, but the scale of obsession around Trump is unprecedented in his practice.

“I had patients who hated Joe Biden, but it never rose to the point where they wanted him dead or would stay up at night obsessing over Joe Biden the way they do over Trump,” he said.

The difference, he argued, is the level at which Trump “dominates” people’s inner lives, often consuming “three-quarters” of a therapy session. That, he said, crosses the threshold from political disagreement into pathology.

Alpert warned that the phenomenon has escalated to the point where it has become, in his view, one of the most significant mental health issues of the past decade.

“I would even go so far as to call this a mental health epidemic,” he said. “In some ways, it’s the defining pathology of the past decade.”

עד כאן דבריו

The facts may be what they are, but his reading of the facts is twisted by “Victim Ideology” AKA “Snowflake Religion”. People who were taught to always blame others for everything now see themselves as “victims” of Trump. If they are actually “victims” of anything, they are victims of warped indoctrination. The punch line of article should read: “The “defining pathology of the past decade” is “Snowflake Derangement Syndrome”, which occurs when developing young brains of Generation Z are taught that everyone is a victim of something or another, and it’s normal and even “virtuous” to be devastated by every “micro-aggression”. Trump is just the boogeyman of the Snowflake religion.”

לעניינינו:

The שורש of “snowflake ideology” is lack of Emunah. It isn’t a coincidence that “Progressives” who are the biggest pushers of this philosophy are also the biggest Apikorsim of today. When a person lives with the understanding that no one other than the Ribbono Shel Olam runs the world, he doesn’t “melt down”. What “hishtadlus” to do in any given situation, or how much to do, is a separate Parsha. Even if someone actually does real “aggression” to him, he knows השם אמר לו קלל. The aggressor’s בחירה determines HIS שכר or עונש, but MY pain is calibrated only by the Ribbono Shel Olam. The מוסר השכל of this article may well be to teach us to appreciate the Chessed Hashem does with us to give us the Torah, and with it the Emunah and resilience to live a healthy and meaningful life.

Obviously this isn’t meant to “knock” people who suffer from real mental illness ר״ל. But I don’t think anyone not infected by Progressive ideology seriously thinks this therapist’s patients suffering from “Trump Derangement Syndrome” are really ill.