Liberalism is a Mental Health Issue

A 2020 Pew Research study reveals that over half of white, liberal women have been diagnosed with a mental health condition at some point.

The study, which examined whit liberals, moderates, and conservatives, both male and female, found that conservatives were far less likely to be diagnosed with mental health issues than those who identified as either liberal or even "very liberal." What's more, white women suffered the worst of all. White women, ages 18-29 who identified as liberal were given a mental health diagnosis from medical professionals at a rate of 56.3%, as compared to 28.4% in moderates and 27.3% in conservatives.

https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/o...pVLFAbV-_HLq3AN4F4w7sbBoPZkbiYAQH9CZ9ex3agnYI

The link gives you many if not all the people and or crimes responsible for the mental health crisis facing these liberal women. Quite interesting.

I am in no way attacking or belittling liberal women here. I myself suffer from combat PTSD which has been called a mental disorder by doctors--which I wholeheartedly disagree with their labeling it as a 'mental disorder'. However, this being a political forum, I just figured people would be interested in knowing the mental state of so many in their particular party.

 

Well, this is the science the left will deny.

Also, liberals tend to get far more emotional than cons, we see this in their frequent rage and violence - it takes a lot of emotion to burn a building down. Is there a mental condition that would explain why people seem to get some sort of satisfaction with rioting and other types of violent behavior?

 

I once had a liberal girlfriend, very smart and well educated, who told me straight to my face that she knew what she was doing didn’t make sense but she couldn’t help it because that was simply how she felt.

unfortunately, there are many people whose actions and beliefs are crippled by their complete lack of emotional discipline. Liberals demonstrate this every day, and it does not matter how educated you are if you can’t control anything beyond your own feelings.

Anyone watch the sitcom Frazier? Classic classic white liberal: very smart and educated, but he had the emotional discipline of a 5 year old and no matter what his brain told him was right, he’d do what his heart told him to do and no matter the problems and mistakes that arose from it, he was forever unable to learn from them.

So here we are, liberals who arrive at their beliefs because of their feelings, and simply use their brains and education to defend those illogical positions instead of arriving at newer and better ones.

And it doesn’t matter how many disgusting, crime-ridden, dirty-syringe strewn streets they vote for, they’ll never learn from it. They’ll keep blaming the redneck living in the woods for their cities on fire and construct an army of fallacies and revisionist histories to defend themselves

Mental disorders help to explain the lack of emotional discipline. Upbringing, human nature, etc etc there are many more I’m sure.

 

You don’t need the article to prove this. Just look at this forum. They get mad very quickly.

 

Of course you're right, but do you think we well behaved, mentally fit, non excitable Conservatives and Republicans can somehow help these libs with their mental issues? Jesus would want us to.

 

And you're calling out other people! LOL!

 

I believe another trait of liberals is their complete intolerance of something or someone they don’t like up to the point of losing friendships. Also, they say they hate labels yet everything they love and hate they give a label to.

 

He didn’t call out anyone, the highly educated people who performed the study did.

 

Again someone who cannot distinguish liberals from leftists.

 

And who might that be? Is there any difference between the two, and if so, what?

 

We have know Leftists have real mental health issued as revealed by 50% of the Leftists women they surveyed confirming they have these issues. I am sure the men are even worse.

 

Interesting. If PTSD isn't a mental disorder, what is it?

 

1 in 4 Americans have some sort of mental disorder. If you know 3 normal people, then its you!

 

Point well taken, but I feel no need to put lib men into the same mental issue category

The S in PTSD stands for Stress, and the T stands for Traumatic where both become the main focus concerning those afflicted with PTSD. My exposure to trauma and its post stressful result has had zero affect on my mental condition...ZERO; as you can clearly see here with my mental acuity in delivering posts such as with this one.

 

I appreciate the sentiment, but I don't think people are liberals because of mental illness. There may be some correlation but not causation. People are liberal out of ignorance which is not a mental health condition.

 

I think you're a little confused. It's either a mental disorder or a physical disorder.

Lots of people have PTSD. There's no shame in it.

 

No, liberalism is not a mental health issue. Stop trying to turn politics into a medical issue, I can't stand when either side does this, it's all an excuse to violate your rights.

 

Whose rights are being violated? Many people on the left seem to be driven by their emotions rather than logic and common sense. Why else would many of them vote against their own best interests?

 

No one here is suggesting there is shame in having PTSD....especially me. It's the Pew Research Study that has diagnosed this high percentage of young liberal women as having a mental disorder, and inside the link gives you the diagnostic reasons why they rank so high on the mental disorder list which does seem to have a lot to do with high anxiety over politically oriented issues. And my particular battle with PTSD has like you suggest, all to do with the physical aspect of it, and nothing at all to with my mental state of mind. So what exactly do you think I'm confused about?

 

Well, for starters, PTSD affects your state of mind. That's just a proven fact. It doesn't cause a limp. It doesn't put you in a wheelchair. You don't stitch it up nor put a cast on it. What you do, if you so choose, is seek counseling. PTSD is most certainly a mental disorder. I have it as well. When it has caused problems in the past, I didn't go see an orthopedist. Don't know why you're so defensive about a simple classification based on obvious facts.

 

First Jesus wants you to learn to use English better, then, Jeebus wants you to follow the example of the author.

 

Say what you want about it, but your opinion of it doesn't matter to me whatsoever. Perhaps you should take the time to explain to us why it is that over 50% of young liberal women have been diagnosed with PTSD as their mental symptoms are related to their politics, and that as studied and diagnosed by the Pew Research Study. I'm not defensive about it, I'm just telling you of how I have a differing opinion of the doctor who diagnosed me as calling it a mental disorder. Bottom line, I have no mental disorder. Now those liberal women from the PTSD study could also claim they have no mental disorder; that's up to them, but I haven't heard of any of them claiming to be mentally sound.

 

None of it is a shock. In fact it's pretty much a given. Almost every (middle class ... they're always middle class) white Progressive female I know is depressed and/or dysfunctional. Few are truly happy and content. The burdens of privilege!

Meantime, sorry to hear about your PTSD. That is not a disease, that's an injury - and I understand your position on that better than most civilians.

 

Jesus didn't speak English, so I doubt HE would have any say on that matter. Is the spelling of Jeebus your idea of using better English?

 

Yes, it's called boredom, privilege, and emotional neglect (by privileged parents).