25% Of Millennials Claim They Have PTSD From 2016 Election, Study Says

Authored by Emily Zanotti via DailyWire.com,

Triggered…

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A new psychological study from San Francisco State University claims that a full quarter of millennials are suffering from bouts of post traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, because of the 2016 elections.

The study is by no means comprehensive – the research pool was limited to 769 students studying psychology at Arizona State University – but of those millennials chosen for the test, 25% reported experiencing “clinically significant” levels of stress, along with other symptoms of PTSD.

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Students were evaluated using an “Impact of Event” scale, which measures stress levels at various times following a major traumatic event, typically a tragedy or a personal illness or injury. The results, the Washington Examiner reports, “indicated that students’ average stress score was similar to those of witnesses of a mass shooting seven months after the incident.”

“The scale is used to gauge the extent to which individuals have been impacted by an event in such a way that it might lead to diagnosable post-traumatic stress disorder,” lead researcher, Melissa Hagan said in a statement released alongside the study.

“What we were interested in seeing was, did the election for some people constitute a traumatic experience?” Hagan added. “And we found that it did for 25 percent of young adults.”

Those students suffering symptoms all qualify for an official PTSD diagnosis, according to the study itself. And students who self-identified as a minority, as female, as a Democrat, or as a non-Christian reported the most significant stress levels.

“Black and nonwhite Hispanic students scored higher on the assessment than their white classmates, for instance. Gender, political affiliation and religion all played even larger roles. Females scored about 45 percent higher than males on the assessment, and Democrats scored more than two and a half times higher than Republicans,” the study said.

Hagan attributed the “clinically significant” stress levels to both the election’s “surprise” result and rhetoric tossed about in the final weeks of the campaign – specifically Donald Trump’s comments about what makes a person a real American.

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But if it seems strange that simple rhetoric – speeches made in the closing weeks of a campaign when candidates from both parties were trying to instill fear in voters – should trigger actual stress symptoms months after an election, that’s because it is, at least from a commonplace perspective.

But it’s easy to see how students might translate politics into personal harm. Since November of 2016, emotions have been at an all-time high, and outrage meters, particularly on the Left, are set to 11. Each new development from the Trump White House warrants weeks of impassioned social media postings, in-world protesting, and panicked speculation. Each simple policy change is often accompanied by concerns that President Donald Trump is going to “de-humanize” segments of the population, strip women of rights, and institutionalize everyone he disagrees with.

In the months following the election, few – if any – dire predictions have come to pass, but that doesn’t mean true believers aren’t living in fear.

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It might be time, though, to let go – and grow up…

 

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IluvCO2
IluvCO2

Let the great culling begin.

pyrrhus
pyrrhus

Awwwww….

bob

Fucking twats have no idea what emotional trauma really is. If they’re claiming they have PTSD from the election it shows what a bunch of spoiled, privileged, fragile pussies they are. Fucking twats.

Overthecliff
Overthecliff

Bob has those people figured out but he is a little to warm and fuzzy.

MadMike
MadMike

Cool.
Sounds like they all need to buy guns… and one cartridge each.

KaD
KaD

Is it wrong of me to hope they start jumping off tall buildings in protest?

James
James

Kad,the only thing wrong would be to not give em a encouraging push.

None Ya Biz
None Ya Biz

They are able to jump off tall buildings in a single bound! Not that they will do that but they should… Ahem, coff, coff…

tsquared
tsquared

If 25% of the snowflake generation claim to have PTSD because of the election that tells me this is a generation that has a 25% of its population self diagnosing their mental illness.

overthecliff
overthecliff

How can you say they are mentally ill when those soy boys figured out they were cunts.

PleasureOhm
PleasureOhm

This is what happens when everyone gets a trophy. These insufferable pricks deserve to suffer under their contrived mental state.

If Hitery wins in 2020 tsuck diseased Donkey Balls
If Hitery wins in 2020 tsuck diseased Donkey Balls

What will every TBPer do if Hitlery wins in 2020?

javelin
javelin

Same things we did under 8 years of Obama–live our lives and watch government power grow.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty

The purpose of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, etc. was to vastly limit the power of the federal government to such a small number of things that most people would NEVER even be bothered by the actions of those in Washington. Now everyone fears every election because the feds have something to say about EVERY SECOND of EVERYONE’S LIFE. Nobody should ever live in fear of an election outcome. That is third world, banana republic kind of bullshit. The federal government MUST be disbanded and the 50 states must go their own way peacefully. Any continuation of this current tyranny will only lead to mass bloodshed. Unless the power is gone, nobody will ever be free again.

Anonymous
Anonymous

They were psychology students. Which means they were nearly all sensitive, emotional, minimally logical liberals. I’m a psychologist. You should have seen the kinds of things that nationally known psychotherapists wrote before and after the election. Or maybe you shouldn’t. It might give you PTSD.

You would have gotten very different results from students in the engineering department.

Vixen Vic
Vixen Vic

What a bunch of snowflakes. They have no chance in the real world (unless the become university professors where nobody lives in reality.)

None Ya Biz
None Ya Biz

Soon there will be no universities to be a professor at. When fedgov collapses like the USSR, the so called grant money will end and so will the universities.

javelin
javelin

I thought it was a Babylon Bee or Onion article when first glancing at the headline.

Many of us know what we avoided by Hillary not becoming president, but I have more than once said to fanatics during an anti-Trump ( or even pro-trump) rant party, “What in your life personally has changed even the smallest bit because Trump is President?”

Aside from the constant negative crap streaming out of the media, what in your angry, triggered world has any of his rhetoric, de-regulation or policies has been affected even a little bit by Trump?

I usually get vacuous stares or some NPC crap about his climate policy, immigrants etc etc.. ( I have had more than one actually come up to me privately at a later date and say that I was right and it helped–imagine that, a few of them are capable of processing.)

As per using/polling Psych majors for the study, it is pretty much understood that only nut jobs on meds for life go into psychology. All psychology students and psychologists go to other psychologists. ( Which makes them even more psychotic).

When I am stressed the solution is simple– get out of my head. Get busy on some project that requires some thought or planning, get involved with helping someone else, spend some time listening to a friend or family, do some charity work ( works every time) and even a simple prayer asking God to give you peace of mind….not so hard and I have stressers that would make these snowflakes melt like a polar ice cap in their imagined global warming apocalypse.

Boat Guy
Boat Guy

70% of American males 18 to 24 years of age are not fit for military service physically or mentally & emotionally . To be claiming some emotional stress disorder over some mild disappointment experienced in life is ridiculous . Comparing it to PTSD , Combat Fatigue or the old Shell Shock after surviving the extreme life of death rigors of armed kill or be killed combat is flat out simpleminded ! To give any credibility to people claiming this over the fact the Hillary Clinton is not president should place you among those in our society who should not be allowed to live without strict full time care and observation .
I recall being an 18 year old kid in the middle of a Super Tanker under construction and was expected to step it up boy your working a mans job now ! Surprise , nobody gave a flying fuck about my tender feelings .
Young people in America are out there stepping into the adult working world and are taking care of business . In a small number of cases there are whiney little shits who should be brushed off to the side and ignored till they grow up . As for the 70% of those young men not fit , drop the remote throw away the joy stick stop jerking off and get busy making something of yourself other than a disgusting fat body hiding in mommy’s basement . MAN UP ASSHOLE !

wdg
wdg

I notice that all the photos in this article are of hysterical woman which I suspect is fairly representative of the overall anti-Trump population. I would argue that women are more susceptible to being weaponized because their minds are not wired in general for cold hard logic and rational thought processing…but for nurturing and maternal instincts. It is no surprise therefore that the Deep State and those who aspire to rule over us would focus on women as a tool to destroy Christian Western Civilzation and the European people who created this civilization. I should add that as a married man with a wonderful wife and a beautiful daughter, I am a great admirer of women and the fundamental and essential role that they play in our families, culture and Civilization. Sadly, many have been corrupted by the powerful forces that now control almost all aspects of our life and culture.

Bob McDoanld
Bob McDoanld

disgusting, disturbing and pathetic.

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