Other Triggered By Trump

[hodge]

NOT stupid, Muttly. Do not do that to yourself! This is normal! Normal. Normal reaction. My husband is also upset by this and he's never been abused.

I'm just getting over that cold. Practically everyone around here has had it. Being sick with a virus just makes everything worse.

I take clonidine for nightmares. I started out years ago on Prazosin, but that stopped working after several years. Both of them are high blood pressure meds, but they have this miraculous effect of making the nightmares disappear from your consciousness as you wake up. Ask your psych or doc about them. They really help. Only thing is you can't just jump out of bed when you wake up. Gotta sit up slowly, then dangle your legs over the bed and get the blood flowing, otherwise you might faint. I have low BP, but have never fainted, so they're pretty safe.

 

[aut555]

There is another remedy. It's not legal. Anywhere. And talking about it could bring a lot of unwanted a...

He has a lot of enemies from not paying so many people's bills for everything. He would need black helicopters and men in black for his security detail. I thought he was narcissistic, because l just left a relationship with a man who was all that. But when l see Trump, l think of the Wizard of Oz, all show but nothing behind the curtain. He is just pushing levers up and down for reactions of any kind.

 

[hodge]

Good comparison, Aut. But I think he's way uglier than the Wizard. At least the Wizard showed some human feeling about what he'd done. Trump never will. He's a psychopath. He is incapable of even managing to make a decent apology.

 

[hodge]

I think MSNBC's Katy Tur, who has been in Trump's press pool from the beginning, deserves a year off with combat pay after this is over. I'd like to see her go to some cushy resort for a month or so, then get some therapy if she needs it (and who wouldn't need it after spending almost two years with Trump????). MSNBC's Hallie Jackson, too.

 

[Crow]

My family (except me) is all voting for Trump. Several months ago I unfollowed them on FB and have limited the already limited contact. What's been hard this week, but re-affirming, is how the Christian community is rallying around him so fervently. I'm glad I left that community long ago! Nightmares are increasing and I'm back to using my night guard for teeth grinding.

 

[Crow]

@Stickler check out Nate Silver's Electoral College predictions. I have to look at it every night before I go to sleep or else I can't. I think it's like 83% to 17% right now in Clinton's favor.

 

[hodge]

Ish, it really sucks when your whole family is voting for Trump. It really is like a fundamental betrayal.

I don't know how anyone who is not a hater could vote for this creature.

 

[hodge]

Hillary, like every human, is not perfect, but I find her presence reassuring. She has more experience than anyone else who ran this year and she's very smart and capable. She has conducted herself so well throughout this whole campaign. Personally, I want someone in the Oval Office who will continue on Obama's path. He's a sane and good grown-up, as is Hillary. We definitely do not need a 70-year-old child in there.

 

[SittingDuck]

I'm so glad that I stumbled upon this thread. I have found Trump's words and demeanor to be very disconcerting throughout his campaign, but it wasn't until this Access Hollywood tape that I really felt the physical and mental trigger symptoms. I know it's completely unintentional, but I think that for me, the liberal media has made it somewhat worse by publishing others' accounts of their own SA, and especially with the term "rape culture." I'm not sure if anyone else has this problem, but I am incredibly triggered by hearing or reading the "r" word. I don't feel like I can avoid the media because in my job, it is expected that I am knowledgable about local, state, and national politics. Hopefully this will only be a problem for four more weeks!

 

[Iamsensative]

@hodge My therapist and i talked about it too. I decided to watch the debate trying to get over my anxiety of Trump. I watched it, that night i had the worst nightmare and flashback i had in along time. Talking to him and putting it together. I going to watch only positive things, i just cant handle watching or hearing anymore.

 

[Thizette]

I am starting this thread as a specific place to discuss feelings about being triggered by Trump's words

THANK YOU. Seriously, thank you for starting this. It's aweful! And not only are we stuck in that same old experience of knowing someone is abusive and toxic while absolutely no one bothers to believe us when we say so, there's also the issue that everyone reposts and reblogs and livetweets his toxic shit constantly.

I've been having nightmares.

Women in my women's group are having nightmares. We're all triggered almost constantly and it's damaging people! It's so bad my partner tries not to talk to me at all about it, though it's hard for him because he's a sociologist and finds it fascinating and also sometimes I'm so distressed by something I saw online that I bring it up. When we do talk it's just for a little bit and ends with him saying, "We should probably stop talking about this," or me saying, "I can only talk about this for five more minutes." Worse, we live in a county that without a doubt will go to Trump. We moved here in August, and I'm scared to make friends because what if they're Trump supporters???? So when I talk to people I'm more cautious than usual (which is extremely, extremely cautious), and I'm in permanent flight-mode because I cannot be friends with Trump supporters. People who can excuse him are people who can excuse abusers and those aren't people I need in my life. So, I still have no friends here.

 

[hodge]

@Thizette, all polls and analyses right now show that Trump has practically no chance of winning. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean we aren't still exposed to his craziness every day.

Your partner and my husband would get along well, I think. Hubby's a total political geek and follows everything in this election cycle. He has refrained from forwarding me many articles that he knows would trigger me.

I feel for you in your reluctance to make friends, but you can always not pursue the friendship if you find out they are a Trump/abuse person, no?