Basically take care of your mental health, don’t get caught up in a cycle of despair. Focus on what you can do to make a difference and not worry too much about the things you cannot control.
Basically take care of your mental health, don’t get caught up in a cycle of despair. Focus on what you can do to make a difference and not worry too much about the things you cannot control.
HuffPost puts out a lot of filler articles, but this isn’t one of them.
Even though the writer pulls a few punches in the name of professional responsibility (yes, we know Trump isn’t your patient, but let’s just agree, he meets all the criteria of a narcissist), Trump’s use of narcissistic abuser tactics is the single most important observation we need to collectively make to recover as a country. I’ve been banging this drum for a long time - we are trapped in a compulsory relationship with Trump.
Mass media allows Trump to personally abuse us to ensure we keep giving him attention and acceding our power. There’s no difference between us and another domestic psychological abuse victim, except that we’re multiplied by 350 million and Trump has unprecedented power to make our lives miserable to get what he wants.
Until we call this what it is - narcissistic abuse - we’re never going to break out of it.
The problem is that in abusive relationships the ultimate boundary is going no contact. The only way you can do that to an abusive government is immigrating to another country, this is the brain drain we’re experiencing now. At the end, the country will be full of people permanently stuck in survival mode who make no attempt at improving their conditions. Learned helplessness and hopelessness. That is the future of America unless people start fighting fire with fire. We cannot afford to “take the higher ground”, that is what got us here in the first place.