Stress Expert: Media to Blame for Left’s Post-Trump Freakout

[cronus]

http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism ... -freakout/

Stress Expert: Media to Blame for Left’s Post-Trump Freakout

Dr. Pete Sulack, stress expert and founder of StressRX.com, told Breitbart News on Friday that the media bears some of the blame for the deep distress felt by some Hillary Clinton supporters, and the public unrest, after Tuesday’s election results.
“The media is partly to blame for actively fueling fears of some kind of Nazi regime under a Trump presidency,” Sulack said, via e-mail. “In part this is because problems and pain sell advertising space. Mass communications has always struggled with that balance between fair reporting, personal bias, and pressure from executives to keep things ‘hot.'”

He noted that people were responding negatively to anti-Trump images on television and social media.

“When we read, we can rationally discuss the issues or definitions of terms at hand. When we see pictures, however, a different part of our brain is engaged.

“That part is the limbic brain, a part also activated in stressful situations, because it is key to survival. This is the most primitive and unevolved part of us. It acts on emotion, is irrational, childish, and afraid. It can be rude and boorish, and sometimes even cruel,” he said.

Sulack notes that many voters are also upset because they feel “hopeless and powerless.” To deal with the stress, he recommends avoiding alcohol and caffeine, and instead eating dark chocolate, “tree nuts or nut butters,” and “kale and other leafy, green vegetables.”

Teen mental health expert Jamison Monroe, Founder and CEO of Newport Academy, says that while the media are fueling some of the anxiety, much of it comes from information shared by peers through social media.

“Media greatly influences people’s thoughts and opinions. However, teens are very influenced by their peer groups, so reading their peers’ political opinions on social platforms has just as much influence, for this is where a majority of millennials get their news from,” he told Breitbart News, via email.

He explained that feelings of stress were not just triggered by the election result, but the entire campaign. “Feelings of distress are now heighted due to the snowball effect of emotions throughout the entire election,” he said.

For the distressed, Monroe recommended meditating, and avoiding social media altogether.

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[JimC]

...To deal with the stress, he recommends avoiding alcohol and caffeine...

[Brian Peacock]

I guess the good Dr with a book and internet practice to promote would have said the same if the result had gone the other way.

[Svartalf]

...To deal with the stress, he recommends avoiding alcohol and caffeine...

Next he'll recommend quiet meditation, which is impossible to implement when stressed.

[pErvinalia]

Have they tried wanking?

[Hermit]

I guess the good Dr with a book and internet practice to promote would have said the same if the result had gone the other way.

Hah. Promotion of one's own offerings was the first thing that came to my mind by the time I got to the "founder of StressRX.com" bit in the OP.

[cronus]

I guess the good Dr with a book and internet practice to promote would have said the same if the result had gone the other way.

Hah. Promotion of one's own offerings was the first thing that came to my mind by the time I got to the "founder of StressRX.com" bit in the OP.

[DaveDodo007]

http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism ... -freakout/

Stress Expert: Media to Blame for Left’s Post-Trump Freakout

Dr. Pete Sulack, stress expert and founder of StressRX.com, told Breitbart News on Friday that the media bears some of the blame for the deep distress felt by some Hillary Clinton supporters, and the public unrest, after Tuesday’s election results.
“The media is partly to blame for actively fueling fears of some kind of Nazi regime under a Trump presidency,” Sulack said, via e-mail. “In part this is because problems and pain sell advertising space. Mass communications has always struggled with that balance between fair reporting, personal bias, and pressure from executives to keep things ‘hot.'”

He noted that people were responding negatively to anti-Trump images on television and social media.

“When we read, we can rationally discuss the issues or definitions of terms at hand. When we see pictures, however, a different part of our brain is engaged.

“That part is the limbic brain, a part also activated in stressful situations, because it is key to survival. This is the most primitive and unevolved part of us. It acts on emotion, is irrational, childish, and afraid. It can be rude and boorish, and sometimes even cruel,” he said.

Sulack notes that many voters are also upset because they feel “hopeless and powerless.” To deal with the stress, he recommends avoiding alcohol and caffeine, and instead eating dark chocolate, “tree nuts or nut butters,” and “kale and other leafy, green vegetables.”

Teen mental health expert Jamison Monroe, Founder and CEO of Newport Academy, says that while the media are fueling some of the anxiety, much of it comes from information shared by peers through social media.

“Media greatly influences people’s thoughts and opinions. However, teens are very influenced by their peer groups, so reading their peers’ political opinions on social platforms has just as much influence, for this is where a majority of millennials get their news from,” he told Breitbart News, via email.

He explained that feelings of stress were not just triggered by the election result, but the entire campaign. “Feelings of distress are now heighted due to the snowball effect of emotions throughout the entire election,” he said.

For the distressed, Monroe recommended meditating, and avoiding social media altogether.

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Probably best to let Putin extradite George Soros and his mini me son. That cunt is like a real life Bond villain. He is already funding the ring leaders in the anti-Trump protesters. Sold out his own people during Nazi occupation and causing trouble for financial gain ever since.

[Brian Peacock]

So you're against financial gain now eh?

[Forty Two]

What's to blame for the post-election freakouts is the new progressive identity-politics zeitgeist of grievance and self-pity.

The candidate for the other party got elected, so I now "feel unsafe." Here's my safety pin. Are you going to commit to making me feel safe, now? Oh, you're not? Then you're a hateful, bigoted, jerk who wants people to feel unsafe.

When your culture has descended to this -- http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/worl ... /93639074/

[laklak]

I must admit, I'm taking a certain amount of pleasure in their discomfiture.

But there is no joy in Demsville, mighty Hillary has struck out.

[cronus]

I must admit, I'm taking a certain amount of pleasure in their discomfiture.

But there is no joy in Demsville, mighty Hillary has struck out.

Speaking as a spectator it is all entertainment from a safe distance like this. Don't make too many refugees though.....we are full up.

[laklak]

Fuck the refugees.

OK hose them down first.

[pErvinalia]

When your culture has descended to this -- http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/worl ... /93639074/

Yeah, showing support for demonised minorities is so wrong.

[pErvinalia]

I must admit, I'm taking a certain amount of pleasure in their discomfiture.

But there is no joy in Demsville, mighty Hillary has struck out.

Speaking as a spectator it is all entertainment from a safe distance like this. Don't make too many refugees though.....we are full up.

Australia pulled off a coup last week. We are going to close down our offshore torture camps and send the all the refos (a couple of thousand) to the US. Bammy is going to try and rush it to be completed before Trump gets in.