a leading mental health professional advised MSNBC viewers that it may be necessary to sever relationships with relatives who voted for President-elect Donald Trump.
Dr. Amanda Calhoun, the chief psychiatry resident at Yale University, appeared on MSNBC’s Joy Reid show on Friday to discuss how liberals who are feeling disheartened by Trump’s re-election can manage their emotions. She suggested that one way to cope might be distancing themselves from certain family members or friends.
“So, if you are going into a situation where you have family members, where you have close friends who you know have voted in ways that are against you… it’s completely fine to not be around those people and to tell them why,” Calhoun explained to Reid.
The discussion began when Reid brought up the feelings of vulnerability within the LGBTQ community and other minority groups, who, according to her, are feeling particularly threatened after Trump’s victory early on Wednesday morning.
Referring to a recent article from the progressive publication, The 19th, Reid remarked, “Yeah, and we know that there’s been a vast increase since the election – 700 percent increase in calls from …. youth to [ a project] which offers phone, online chat, or text to people – 700 percent increase in calls, texts, and chats compared to recent weeks.”
Reid then asked Calhoun how these individuals should approach family members or friends who supported Trump, especially considering her view that Trump’s election is harmful to the rights of many Americans.
“But I wonder if also, are people challenged with the idea of, how do you interact with people who voted for this?” she questioned.
Reid continued, “If … you know someone in your family voted essentially against your rights, or you’re a woman knowing, you know, … JD Vance was literally calling Kamala Harris ‘the trash.’ He said, ‘We’re going to take out the trash.’ I know a lot of Black women were incredibly triggered by that.”
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Dr. Amanda Calhoun clearly needs some serious help herself. Both her and Joy are sick demented individuals.
So that’ll be great for family relationships. Sounds like the inmates are running Yale’s insane asylum.
Aside from considering such feelings an indication of mental illness, this “doctor” is concocting her own psychiatry here. Her idea is plainly foolish, destructive, and has nothing in common with current science of psychology and mental health. It might be worthwhile for someone to investigate this as a potential breach of professional ethics. It’s one thing to passionate about one’s political beliefs. But to estrange family over this is absurd. Dr. Calhoun is out of touch with her own politics being extreme. Frankly, this a disgrace for Yale University.
What is the race of Mrs. Reid and her psychiatrist?
No doubt this idiot so-called psychiatrist and her clientelle are part of the generation of “snowflakes” who demanded safe spaces and called disagreeing views “hate speech”. They NEVER learned how to cope with reality, so now when faced with more situstions increasing their collective angst and mental instability, they are told the best strategy is to create more hatred and dysfunction in their own family. They will never grow up. They will never learn, so let them fade into irrelevance as the new MAGA world leaves them behind in obscurity.
she is crazy!!
Physician, heal thyself.
Like the late Tzadik Reb Yehuda Jacobs once said, “Being a good mental health expert is 20% technique and 80% seichel”…..