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The Trump Regime’s Response to Veterans Day I posted this comment downthread as a response to CanadianKitty. This action is reprehensible, and I’m being a bit kind here. __________________ Thanks for Your Comment The Trump Regime’s cruelty isn’t just...
by JekyllnHyde
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on Mon Nov 10, 2025 at 07:01 PM PST
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Oh my. All President Trump's people act like the embittered survivors of some frightful disaster. They seem to have PTSD. But why? No, they weren’t born that way. :) No, they are not Satanic. But they all must believe the BIG LIE that Trump won the...
by blackerkong
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on Sun Oct 19, 2025 at 03:45 PM PDT
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I am a registered voter, affiliated with the Democratic Party, but a little less proudly these days. I’ve voted Democratic all my voting life, but right now, I am really annoyed and aggravated ...
by DRSat4880
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on Fri Aug 29, 2025 at 03:00 AM PDT
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Not sure why I didn’t hear about this latest outrage from ICE earlier, seeing as how this particular victim was a fellow resident of Hawaii, or why it apparently hasn’t been mentioned here yet, but Sae Joon Park’s story has now spread around the world...
by Irontortoise
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on Fri Jun 27, 2025 at 12:39 AM PDT
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The following text has been added as the second update to my diary from yesterday. It’s an apology to site admin. After posting the update, I realized that yesterday’s diary might not be visible enough to convey the apology appropriately. So, this...
by Gaelsdottir
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on Mon May 26, 2025 at 06:38 AM PDT
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So, I was walking home tonight from my favourite cafe where I write. As I walking by the Nordsee (a German fast-food joint specialising in seafood) the was a group of teens and one of them was being harassed by a guy who was trying to be an extra in...
by Jeffersonian Democrat
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on Sat Mar 08, 2025 at 12:17 PM PST
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By Jeremiah Quill My fucking brain has been killing me lately. Sort of a dull throbbing likely caused by the tsunami of bad America News that floods the private areas of my skull each day. Then I got more bad news: My shrink diagnosed me with Post...
by DailyGaz
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on Fri Mar 07, 2025 at 05:49 AM PST
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I have PTSD and I have been here before, we have, collectively, been here before. For me, it feels more intense this time. Political Gaslighting is “post-truth politics” in action. Gaslighters have an ““inability to tolerate even the slightest...
by climate refugee
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on Fri Feb 28, 2025 at 04:20 PM PST
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Representative Mace, were these men also cross-dressed when they humiliated you? Are they in the room with us right now? Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) plans to reveal on the House floor that she was victimized by video abuse in a speech that directly...
by annieli
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on Tue Feb 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM PST
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Hello Daily Kos friends. Last week I was contacted by a guy who writes a Substack newsletter on grief who asked me a few questions about election-related grief. The first question was an invitation to suggest some language for the psychological and...
by Scott Janssen
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on Sat Nov 16, 2024 at 05:12 AM PST
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Hey all! A cathartic rant. Many of you know I live with TBI/ABI and several other comorbidities. On Monday morning I was bullied and assaulted by the punk assed girls next door. This is a culmination of over a year of having to live with nuisance...
by Rknrobin
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on Sat Aug 31, 2024 at 12:20 AM PDT
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It seems like Trump is noticeably off his game lately. I believe it’s partly because he expected to cruise to victory against Biden, but more importantly, I think Trump may be dealing with PTSD. He often talks about the attempt on his life and how...
by smartone
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on Sun Aug 11, 2024 at 05:43 AM PDT
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I wrote this many years ago, but kept it in a secret blog most of the time. Reading about Alice Munro and her daughter precipitated a PTSD episode over something that happened 67 years ago when I was 12. This, along with the following Descent into...
by Cassandra Woolf
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on Sat Jul 27, 2024 at 03:58 PM PDT
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This is another article Mary Trump posted on Substack. She appreciated my posting her previous piece, so I will continue to post when I think it is particularly useful to the DKos community. As many of you know, Mary Trump is a professional...
by Solarman55
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on Tue Jul 09, 2024 at 09:58 PM PDT
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The New York times (NYT) published this today. Pattern of Brain Damage Is Pervasive in Navy SEALs Who Died by Suicide It is an article from Dave Philips, a journalist who is specialized in writing on the military. Here is a summary: (The article has a...
by the shrink
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on Mon Jul 01, 2024 at 02:30 AM PDT
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I Think This Is a Problem I close my eyes, but there is no rest. I see the picture in my mind with every blink. Dead, blown-up bodies. Blood everywhere. It’s a still-life black and white photo that never moves and is always there whenever I close my...
by The Tell with Christine Axsmith
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on Wed Jun 19, 2024 at 05:57 AM PDT
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We all have memories, some lovely some horrible, and are familiar with being stimulated to recall them by scents, images, and sounds, but where is the demarcation that divides benign yet unpleasant memories from disruptive PTSD flashbacks? When I saw...
by Besame
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on Sun Jun 30, 2024 at 04:00 PM PDT
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I’m having PTSD today from yesterdays verdict and 45’s response. I was diagnosed with it about six years ago by a licensed therapist. (Diagnosed depression over 20 years ago.) I was raised by a covert narcissistic mother. I was never, ever good enough....
by BeadLady
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on Fri May 31, 2024 at 01:17 PM PDT
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SHARE THIS SUBSCRIBE Climate change is no longer a distant threat; it’s a present-day reality impacting communities worldwide. Beyond the visible environmental devastation, climate change is also silently wreaking havoc on mental health, affecting...
by populationmediacenter
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on Tue May 28, 2024 at 10:34 AM PDT
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“At least when I’m dead, I’ll never see Trump’s smirking face again.” Jim, a hospice patient, seems to be having a physical response just talking about Donald Trump. He’s fidgeting, appears agitated, and, though typically soft-spoken, has raised his...
by Scott Janssen
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on Sat May 04, 2024 at 06:52 AM PDT
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