Americans Are Suffering From #msm Induced PTSD
By: Paige Donner
Tags: Paige Donner, Politics, Mainstream Media, 2020 Presidential Race, PTSD

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I debated whether to title this as a question, i.e. Are Americans Suffering From Mainstream Media-Induced PTSD? But the answer leapt out at me so quickly, namely a resounding YES, that the statement surely reflects more accurately the mental state of our country’s daily news consumers.

These PTSD symptoms can be directly ascribed to Mueller Report fatigue, Russia Hoax hallucinations, RacistRacistRacist vindictives being hurled at both sides from both sides, Infanticide now being legalized under the guise of ‘abortion,’ National Border Security & The Wall, North Korea nuclear power threats, China’s 5G world domination threat, the Opioid Crisis, needless deaths of Americans, Illegal Immigrants demanding (and often getting) a bigger piece of the American pie than many of our grandparents and parents, who put in 50+ years in factories, ever got or ever even had the gumption to demand from their government… And of course the beauty pageant winners of Who Wants To Be A Freshman Congressman (person)?

It’s enough to turn you into a news media reformed junkie and newfound evangelist of digital detoxification. (Burn your phones, your ear pods, your smart watches and yes, even your digital TVs, Alexa and laptops)! Quick! Before they infect your mind with so much garbage that you will be past the point of recovery/no return.

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No! No! No!

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This is your mind-body equation on mainstream media news today.

But I believe that the thing that is leading most quickly and most effectively to PTSD symptoms from #msm news media overload is all the LIES. MindBodyHealth experts say that humans instinctively know when they are being spoon fed lies. Anyone who has ever meaningfully explored, or even dabbled, with the Feldenkrais Method can attest that this muscle testing technique is often a good way to judge veracity. So even if our minds are lulled into the “story,” somewhere physically our bodies register that we are being given shovels full of daily doodoo. As one pundit aptly called it, InfoCrap.

InfoCrap And What To Do About It

I have become one of the worst offenders in terms of quickly becoming a news junkie. Now that the American economy is getting back on track, now that American companies are coming back home from abroad, and bringing jobs and productivity with them, now that someone in the government is actually doing something about the opioid crisis and the needless deaths and family wreckage that go hand in hand with it, there is a lot to celebrate about what is going on today in our country.

So when I hear the battle cries of Impeach The MotherF*c*er, it makes me stand to attention and salute my Commander-In -hief, and then tune into the day’s newscasts, if only to try to get a grasp on where this TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) is coming from and if there is any merit to it?

Unfortunately, all that ever leads to, tuning into the day’s newscasts, is being led down even more #msm wormholes about subterfuges perpetrated by our government against our government, of falsified documents that have turned into full-blown hoaxes carried out and given weight by a DOJ whose officials are holdovers from, and loyalists to, a past administration… and on and on and on.

A couple months of this steady diet of InfoCrap and you are guaranteed to walk away (if you still can) with PTSD symptoms.

America, we must stay informed. An informed citizenry is the strongest support for freedom and for our constitutional republic. It is also a bulwark against potential government abuses and tyranny.

But the mainstream media must come to terms with their current iteration that they are now turning their ratings and credibility wars into illness-engendering nightly newscasts foisted upon trusting viewers and listeners. Whereas once the media stood as a mechanism against tyrants, now they — in large part — have become the tyrants. Our president says that the mainstream media has become the enemy of the people. Agree or disagree, but one thing is certain, it has become a PTSD -inducing plague of daily doses of infected horses*it.

I remember when I was a kid, when the headlines would get to be too much, mom and dad would just turn to he Funnies. Remember those? (If you are middle-aged, like me, you will). Where Snoopy and Doonesbury would try to lighten the mood for a minute, make us laugh?

Today, there are no Funnies on our news channels.

Some would say that Beto and Alexandria qualify as Funnies. Frighteningly funny. But at this point in the game, with the threat of socialism, open borders, legalized infanticide and 16 year old voters, I would have to say that yes, they are frightening. Funny, no. Not yet, anyway. Hopefully they will be with 20/20 hind vision when they have been proved to be a Flash in the Pan. But not now, not yet.

So what is it that Americans want? I would venture to guess it’s pretty basic. They want truth. They want a society where truth still matters and holds weight. Where it has not become some elastic concept to be twisted by and for political ends.

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What, as an American, do I want? An adequately comfortable life (decent shelter, food, education), meaningful relationships, upward mobility for the next generation, freedom to think and have my own opinions and express them without threat or fear of threat. I want to enjoy this land that I love that my grandparents, great grandparents and parents fought and worked hard all their lives for us to enjoy.

But watching the nightly news on #msm breaks my heart anew every single day. Because I am watching these dreams of freedom, of family, of all that I love about America being ripped to shreds and vilified right before my very eyes.

And this my friend, my fellow American, this malaise is more than PTSD. It is near bordering on soul-crushing. Which is perhaps exactly what the political machine wants? An electorate so confused, so force-fed on diametrically opposing views and storylines that no one can tell what is up or down, let alone right or wrong anymore?

2020 here we come?

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Paige Donner is a photographer, author, podcaster and an American. She is also a meditation practitioner. Find her at http://PaigeDonner.info