Florida Kerry supporters meet for group therapy

[truthpusher]

http://www.bocaratonnews.com/index.php?src=news&category=Local%20News&prid=10331

Florida Kerry supporters meet for group therapy

Voters shout epithets at President Bush during first PEST counseling session

Published Saturday, December 4, 2004 at 1:00 am
by Sean Salai

Twenty John Kerry supporters met for their first group therapy session in South Florida Thursday, screaming epithets at President Bush as they shared their emotions with licensed mental health counselors.

The first of several free noontime therapy sessions at the American Health Association in Boca Raton was designed to treat what mental health counselors have dubbed Post Election Selection Trauma (PEST).

“If I had a cardboard cutout of President Bush, and these people wanted to throw darts at it, I would let them do it,” Robert J. Gordon, AHA executive director, told the Boca News after the session. “It’s no joke. People with PEST were traumatized by the election. If you even mention religion, their faces turn blister-red as they shout at Bush.”

Although the meeting was closed to the press, AHA therapists obtained permission from participants to provide an anonymous transcript to the Boca Raton News.

More: http://www.bocaratonnews.com/index.php?src=news&category=Local%20News&prid=10331

[Catherine Vincent]

1. It amazes me that the press would report something like this but

ignore real issues concerning our democracy like voter fraud? My brother in law pissed me off the other day when he asked me why I haven't visited since the election. He said was I seeking therapy because Kerry lost. And get this, he is a democrat and voted for Kerry.

[zann725]

2. Interesting that the 'therapy' is in Florida...

Where...even though they don't have Bush 'cut-out's' to throw darts at (as suggested by the P.E.S.T. therapist)...Florida DOES have all those NEW, unmarked, Clear Vision billboards with BIG pic's of their favorite President Bush on them (with the subtitle "Our Leader" beneath). Sure hope all those brand new shiney billboards do not trigger any spontaneous, 'post-therapy' P.E.S.T. :bounce: :think:

[cavanaghjam]

10. Can you say paint ball gun? n/t

[Liberal Chad from WI]

3. not even therapy can help me (n/t)

[prairie]

17. Kerry Therapy in Florida

I agree, I'm still bummed over Senator Kerry losing the
election. He clearly was the better man. I can't believe so
many people were so incredibly stupid to vote for Bush. What
exactly has he done that has helped any of us, except perhaps
billionaires, and Nazis?

I wish we could have the same therapy group session(s) here in
Massachusetts.

[SoCalDem]

18. Welcome prairie

:hi:

[brentspeak]

4. If anyone needs to have their heads examined

it's all those non-Thurston Howell III's who voted Bush.

[boi1946]

8. At first I thought this was a satire--

but this seems to be legit. I know I was depressed a couple of days, then I just got mad and wanted to fight the suckers who had stolen an election, AGAIN!

[bluestateguy]

5. Therapy is fine for now, but in a few months it's time to get back to work

I don't recall hearing about conservatives going to therapy after the elections of 1992 and 1996. They got right back up and went back to Clinton bashing. But go ahead and get the therapy done if you find it useful.

[barb162]

7. Clinton didn't destroy the country. Shrub is already doing it

[barb162]

6. I like the concept and wish they had them here. I would

certainly call myself traumatized over 11/2

[msgadget]

9. Those crazy, crybaby, loser liberals

I guess gloating doesn't get old.

[cavanaghjam]

11. DU is my support group

[zann725]

16. Ditto!

:)

[Erika]

12. I loved the Thurston Howell reference!

I find great solace in the fact that we voted for a man who would uplift all America and care for the needy in our society. We voted for a man who fought for his country not ran from duty. We voted for a man who would restore confidence in us as the leader of the world based on positives to gather the world together for peace.
We did right.

The frustration of having friends and neighbors vote for Bush because they keeled to his scare tactics or voted for him for their own mercenary (greed) purposes is hard to deal with. I, too, can no longer tolerate Bush voters who pretend they care about the needy but voted their personal pocketbook.

[yorkiemommie1]

13. yes, we did right

despite their efforts to make us seem like the crazy ones, they are the ones who allowed their thinking to be twisted because they were unwilling to ask the hard questions.

they voted with the boardroom but they do not realize that the boardroom no longer has any use for them.

[CindyDale]

14. I read the whole article

and I don't think these people are crazy. LOL

They are apparently mostly elderly Jewish people who are frightened of the direction America is taking, going back to pre-Enlightenment values.

Maybe they weren't convinced by Justice Scalia's assertion that Jews are safer when "christians" are in charge.

I also think they are doing a good thing getting together to talk and that it doesn't reflect badly on them at all.

Cindy

[Cerridwen]

15. PEST = Drapetomania

So you see, it's not society and the voting system and the gradual incursion of totalitarian thought into public discourse that is the problem, it's just that "liberals" are mentally unbalanced.

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When Africans were torn from their families and homes and sold into slavery in the United States, science stood ready to define any disobedience or insubordination by them as a "mental illness."

<snip>

The first term came from drapetes, a runaway slave, and mania, meaning mad or crazy. Cartwright claimed that this "disease" caused blacks to have an uncontrollable urge to run away from their "masters." The "treatment" for this "illness" was "whipping the devil out of them."

Dysaesthesia Aethiopis supposedly affected both mind and body. The diagnosable signs included disobedience, answering disrespectfully and refusing to work. The "cure" was to put the person to some kind of hard labor which apparently sent "vitalized blood to the brain to give liberty to the mind."

Much "scientific" and statistical rhetoric was used to justify slavery. One 1840 census "proved" that blacks living under "unnatural conditions of freedom" in the North were more prone to insanity. Dr. Edward Jarvis, a specialist in mental disorders, used this to conclude that slavery shielded blacks from "some of the liabilities and dangers of active self-direction." The census was later found to be a racist facade in that many of the Northern towns credited with mentally deranged blacks had no black inhabitants at all!


http://www.cchr.org/racism/pooaa1.htm