It’s as if psychologists these days don’t have enough made up disorders to diagnose people with. Now they managed to come up with “Post Election Selection Trauma”, or PEST. Basically, PEST, like ADD and the rest of the made up disorders, are ways for psychologists to somewhat normalize abnormal behavior, and in this case the abnormal behavior is the inability of an individual to cope with the result of an election.With ADD, people ask “why is little Billy not able to pay attention in class?” To which someone would respond “oh, he has ADD”, and suddenly Billy’s behavior is ok. Just have him pop a few pills and everything will be alright. Now with PEST, people will ask “why is Sarah crying in the corner?” To which someone would respond “oh, she has PEST” (more accurately they should say Sarah is a PEST). Now we’re all of a sudden supposed to accept this “disorder”, and act like everything is ok.
Well, I won’t accept it. If someone comes crying to me about the result of the election, I’ll tell them to shut up, grow up and wake up. Shut up, because the sound of their voice will likely give me a headache in a matter of minutes. Grow up, because you can’t cry Kerry into the White House. And wake up, because as they will hopefully realize, this country is better off with Bush in the White House. They will have more money in their pockets, more individual freedoms and a safer country to live in under a Bush administration.
Sean Hannity recently interviewed one of the psychiatrists who is treating many of these nut jobs, and the psychiatrist claimed that many of these people cringe at the very mention of religion or God. He claimed that they fear that God has been elected into the “Right” House, and not a president. He claimed that some of these people need a cardboard cutout of the President to throw darts at just to make themselves feel better. I’m sorry, but that is not normal behavior for an adult. I can see a five-year old throwing a temper tantrum, but adults? Grow up, it was just an election, that was won fairly, both in the electoral college as well as the popular vote. Well, I guess if these people can’t grow up and act like adults, we could always threaten to take away their dessert until they act like big boys and girls.
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