With women pledging to break up with their boyfriends and divorce their husbands over the Trump victory, Yale University chief psychiatry resident Dr. Amanda Calhoun is advising that it may also be necessary for your mental health to cut off your family and friends who supported Trump. In that way, you can avoid being “triggered” by opposing political views — much like Yale itself.
As academics, we are dealing with the election on campuses across America. After the election, I had some valuable discussions with students who supported Harris and some who supported Trump. I wish there would be more interaction between the two groups. That is why this story stood out for me. I do not believe that further separation or isolation will help this country or these individuals.
Dr. Calhoun went on MSNBC’s Joy Reid to offer the curious take on good mental health. Reid has spent the week condemning the majority of voters (particularly minority voters) in the nation as racists and misogynists for the Trump victory.
Reid joined a rising tide of rage, which I discussed in my column this weekend. Dr. Calhoun added her voice to the madness.
“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…
…You know, to say, ‘I have a problem with the way that you voted because it went against my very livelihood, and I’m not going to be around you this holiday. I need to take some space for me.’ I think you should very much be entitled to do so, and I think it may be essential for your mental health.”
There is another possibility. You can try to resolve those feelings with people who you previously liked or loved. It may actually help to discuss these issues outside of the echo chamber of your political associations.
Of course, Yale University itself has followed this advice for years by removing faculty with opposing views for the general welfare of the community. Surveys show that 77% of Yale faculty “are registered as Democrats or have conducted political activity that heavily or exclusively supports Democrats; under 3% are Republican.” Furthermore, among 16 surveyed departments, “over 57%, have no registered Republicans at all. Across 14 departments in the Social Sciences and Humanities, the report identified 312 Democrat faculty (88%) and only 4 Republicans (1.1%), a ratio of around 78 to 1.”
Now, that is mental tranquility.
The suggestion that it may be “triggering” to see family and friends is not unique to Yale’s psychiatric staff.
Across the country, women have been cutting their hair and joining the Korean 4B movement—bihon (no marriage), bichulsan (no childbirth), biyeonae (no dating), and bisekseu (no sex). One is quoted as saying, “I fear The Handmaid’s Tale will become our reality.”
It is a curious response since figures like Reid blame white women for the loss. Trump won white women voters by eight points at 53 percent. Harris actually fell slightly in the support of women overall. Conversely, roughly 43 percent of men voted for Harris. Forty percent of women under 30 voted for Trump.
Yet I watched one deranged voter say that she is thinking of buying a “Glock” and shooting the first man who comes near her. If so, she would have an over 4 out of 10 likelihood of shooting a fellow Harris supporter.
None of this is good for our nation’s mental health and suggesting that people retreat further into their silos does not make for particularly healthy advice.
As discussed in my book, The Indispensable Right, we have become a nation of rage addicts. Taking another hit of rage will do little to break that addiction.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. He is the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage” (Simon & Schuster, 2024).
How much more mental health damage are leftist Democrats trying to do to themselves, their party and force on others?
“Yale University chief psychiatry resident Dr. Amanda Calhoun” is glaringly in need of psychiatric intervention. As Michael Savage so famously stated: “Liberalism is a mental disorder.”
So it’s a good idea for the rage maniacs to be in charge of the nuclear codes ?? I seriously doubt that !!
What if I told you that the Biden family has been asked to return all that money?
Watching the Dems’ hysteria is like watching casting call auditions for the Aunt Pittypat role in a remake of GWTW!
“Where are my smelling salts!!!!”
“it’s completely fine to not be around those people”
Pinky promise?
She is only a Resident with no real world experience, so consider the source.
PS MSNBC couldn’t get/find an Attending willing to come on the show?
She is the Chief Resident.
She completed her residency in June 2023.
As in most residency programs, the best resident in the final year is invited back to serve as Chief Resident for the following year, supervising the training of upcoming residents.
She is appointed as a Clinical Fellow at Yale, and as such she is an Attending Physician.
She is a fully licensed, fully trained psychiatrist.
@Anonymous
2023, huh? Wow. What a long and storied career she’s had. 😂😂 If she went straight to college she could even be under 30, though I don’t know. That is not a grown-up these days, certainly not any type of ‘authority’. I would be astonished if she’s ever even paid her own bills.
Sorry, but all you’ve done is emphasize the original point. And if she is one of the ‘best’, wow, their program is sheet. 🤷🏽♂️ The fact that she is training others is precisely why I walk out if a doctor isn’t at least my age, as a non-doctor but real adult, my medical knowledge often exceeds theirs. 🤷🏽♂️ I expect that sort of thing to increase. Enough ‘chances’ have been given to that cohort. Too many, in fact. Intervention was not optional this election.
James
Typical incoherent rant of a low information MAGA cultist, who is an “expert” on everything under the sun, but is really a classic example of the Dunning-Kruger effect. The less he knows about something, the greater his self-perceived “expertise”.
As a retired physician, I can tell you that I seek the opinions of younger physicians for medical advice. They have been trained in an environment of the latest diagnostic procedures and are more knowledgeable regarding the latest treatments and technologies. They are generally more up to date in their specialties.
In the present environment it is very difficult for practicing physicians to stay current in their specialty. Dealing with insurance companies who deny payment or deny authorization for care can be overwhelming. One of the reasons I retired was because I found that I was spending so much time dealing with insurance companies questioning my assessments of patients that it was not possible to keep current in my field. There were simply not enough hours in the day to see patients, deal with insurance companies and stay current. After seeing patients all day I would often have to spend many hours reviewing denials and dictating lengthy responses to those denials. I would get home in the late evening, eat dinner and go straight to bed.
This is true for most older physicians.
@Anonymous
Thank you for *triple* proving the point. Want to go for a quadruple??
Your reference: “Typical incoherent rant of a low information MAGA cultist” renders itself to a sheep-like CNN-caliber indoctrination. It’s that very mentality that helped put President Trump in office again.
I daresay, you had NO idea of what the Dunning-Kruger effect even was –until very recently. You are either George or Gigi (who likes to copy-cat others who write big words that she is impressed with).
* What have we learned? Always look at the credentials displayed on the wall. If it says Yale, cancel the appt. Just say you left the coffee plugged in.
If the 4B had such self-control, abortion would not have been their #1 issue.
Carry on. Go extinct.
medio tutissimus ibis
There’s 7 billion people in the world. Unlikely the 1.5 Chinese will become extinct or the 1.5 billion east Indians either. I am concerned about endangered populations such as the British, Jewish, Scandinavians, various Europeans and others. Anthropology is a science now.
Laws are based in reason and not emotion.
we need to SCORCHED EARTH spending for Democrats….ZERO THEM OUT. Abolish their anti-America Party!
just another reason to CUT OFF MONEY to Colleges…they are insane!
End Federal Aid and loan backing to colleges, cities, states, non-profits
ban public unions(or at least from political activity)
* Yes! Cut off ALL foreign money to American colleges and universities! It’s big.
The Babylon Bee reports that they/Dem should have received their Handmaid’s Tale outfits by now. Check your mail!
* Are you not using women as breeders as in the Baby M case? Do you not sell your gametes for 75 dollars now? What is it you don’t do?
I wonder if Dr. Calhoun discloses to students or clients her opinion about ghosting those you have strong connections and relationships with over disagreements. If so, can she cite research supporting benefits of silo seeking over relationship strengthening.
I feel bad for her if she finds her silo seeking life enriching.
As we have seen based off election results, more and more people are tired of the same Democrat BS, the same hysteria, the same clutching of pearls, the same Democrat corruption, the same lies. They will continue to cry and wale on MSM and fewer and fewer people will believe them. Sure, there will be those with TDS who will repeat all the lies and BS over and over again. We, fed up with them, will just ignore them or tell them to go away. Dont want to talk to me as a friend or family member, you must not of been a good friend or family member in the first place. My life will likely get better not having to see your pink hair, or your insistent ranting about DEI, pronouns, climate change, censorship, racism, misogyny. Me and the rest of the family are quite bored with it. At least uncle Joe has the excuse he had a to few many PBRs with his government conspiracies.
VERY well said !
Did deeper – this person is not a psychiatrist; for all intents and purposes, she is a student. Is anyone surprised this is the mentality of a modern, spoiled Yale kid?
The answer is easy, grown adults: stop asking for and taking the advice of what amount to petulant, woke children. Physical age no longer signifies anything resembling maturity.
*’Dig’ deeper
She is the Chief Resident.
She completed her residency in June 2023.
As in most residency programs, the best resident in the final year is invited back to serve as Chief Resident for the following year, supervising the training of upcoming residents.
She is appointed as a Clinical Fellow at Yale.
She is a fully licensed, fully trained psychiatrist.
* OBVIOUSLY an assumed identity. Just listen to her talk?
The perfect, and final, bit of evidence that illustrates that the entire prog/left have marched round the bend from sanity into delusional world of the angry, spiteful toddler
Regarding those who are going to cut themselves off from childbearing, they are doing the world a favor by taking them out of the gene pool.
If there is such radicalization, these folks would have been a perfect fit for the People’s Temple in Guyana. They are just a bit too late. Kool-Aide anyone?
My family are all over the place politically. (We still get along). My sister is an uber liberal, yet she rails against the homeless beggars, “Get a job!”
Just look at a map of the United States, county by county and see how they voted. One soon realizes that there are a majority of Americans who do not want to tear down this country and blow up our way of life.
“Regarding those who are going to cut themselves off from childbearing, they are doing the world a favor by taking them out of the gene pool.” This bit of info has always been my solace when dealing with the LGBTQ+++ community at large and also the spoiled, immature progressive feminists. We should be grateful that they are only having dogs and cats instead of reproducing their own craziness.
If you get triggered by how someone voted, I think you might have bigger issues.
Precisely!
Turley for AG!
I absolutely love your book! I now want to read about the people you mentioned. I bought the hard copy and audible. The plate in the print version are wonderful!
Ukraine struck the Kremlin with a Neptune missile.
That pretty much means they DON’T support Democracy and are NOT liberal in their views. So what they claim to stand for is not what they actually stand for.