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Question: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Phelps ? Los Angeles (AFP) –  Swimming great Michael Phelps  revealed that  he  has battled severe anxiety and depression for much of  his  life which drove  him  to consider suicide after  his  success at the 2012 Olympics.
Speaking at a mental health conference in Chicago on Tuesday  the 23-time Olympic gold medal winner talked openly about  his  long battle with crippling depression and is encouraging others to get help like  he  did.
“After every Olympics I think I fell into a major state of depression ”  the 32-year-old Phelps  said.
 Phelps  said  he  reached rock bottom following the 2012 Olympics in London where  he  won four gold medals and two silver. For four days  he  remained in  his  room without food or sleep.
“I didn’t want to be in the sport anymore ”  he  said. “I didn’t want to be alive.”
When  he  hit a low point in  his  depression   Phelps  said  “You do contemplate suicide.”
Over the past two years  Phelps  has opened up about  his  struggles. Once again   Phelps  said  his  depression and anxiety problems have been a staple of  his  life for the past 17 years.
“We’re supposed to be this big  macho  physically strong human beings  but this is not a weakness ”  he  said. “We are seeking and reaching for help.”
 Phelps  won his first gold medal in 2004 at the Athens Olympic Games. That same year the 15-year-old from Baltimore experienced his first “depression spell”.
 Phelps  said as  he  got older  his  depression led to  his  abusing drugs and alcohol.
In 2008  after winning a record eight gold medals at the Beijing Games   Phelps  was photographed smoking from a bong.  He  has also been arrested twice for drink driving.
“It would be just me self-medicating  myself   basically daily  to try to fix whatever it was that I was trying to run from ”  he  said.
 Phelps  isn’t the first Olympic national hero to battle dark demons outside the pool.
Like  Phelps   Thorpe chose to “self-medicate” with alcohol to try and manage  his  vicious mood swings and silence the horrible thoughts going through  his  head.
In an interview with CNN this week   Phelps  said  he  wants to eliminate the stigma associated with mental illness.
“(Mental illness) has a stigma around it and that’s something we still deal with every day ” said  Phelps . “I think people actually finally understand it is real. People are talking about it and I think this is the only way that it can change.”

Answer: Positive


Question: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Laura Ingraham ? Laura Ingraham  was one of the few people who saw Donald Trumpâs shocking victory coming. More importantly  as a former speechwriter for Ronald Reagan who saw firsthand how viciously the Bush-aligned establishment despised Reaganâs working-class voters   Ingraham  understands how powerful the conservative-populist movement is and why the elites in the permanent political class have spent gazillions and worked overtime for three decades to thwart it.
In  her  blockbuster new book  Billionaire at the Barricades: The Populist Revolution from Reagan to Trump  Ingraham  the best-selling author  explains how Trump got elected and the forces heâand other economic nationalistsâwill have to battle to implement the peopleâs agenda.
Billionaire at the Barricades is a must-read because  Ingraham   who still gets chills when she sees footage of the crowd at Kemper Arena in 1976 realizing they had nominated the wrong man in Gerald Ford  takes readers on a fast-paced journey through the 2016 campaign cycle and shows how everyone who was blindsided by Trumpâs rise should have seen it coming  especially after Dave Bratâs shocking primary victory over then-House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) in 2014.
Elites give off the impression that Trumpâs populism on the campaign trail was something they had never seen before when  in fact  every candidate who has won the presidency in the television age has been the one who was the most populist. As  Ingraham  writes  âpresidential candidates invoke the populist style because it connects with working people.â
Conservatism and populism  according to  Ingraham   âoverlap in their opposition to âbig thingsââbig government  big international organizations  big media  big business cronyism.â
Reagan understood that âthese distant  uncaring entities rob people of decision making and ignore their interests â and  Ingraham  notes that âPat Buchanan and Donald Trump summarized conservative populism best when each vowed to put âAmerica first.ââ
âConservative populists tend to support a policy of economic nationalismâpeople-centered economic policies that put the nation and its workers first. They oppose a massive national debt because it weakens America and makes its citizens beholden to lenders â  she  continues. âThey also believe high taxes are bad because they sap workersâ wages and economic freedom. Similarly  they are against huge trade deals and international organizations like the World Trade Organization because they take power out of the hands of voters and give it to a far-away and often hostile global elite.â
When it comes to foreign policy   Ingraham  explains that âconservative populists oppose broad military interventionism and believe military force should only be used when American interests are threatened.â  She  slams populismâs critics who foolishly toss around âthe term âisolationismâ to dismiss populist foreign policy â even though that label does not describe any populist  she  has ever known.
 Ingraham  points out that âthroughout the Cold War  populists were among the strongest voices opposing Soviet communism.â In addition  populists have always believed that âsquandering the nationâs wealth and blood on un-winnable wars and nation-building is unwise. Instead  they support a pragmatic foreign policy based on achieving âpeace through strengthâ by maintaining a strong military and using it prudently.â
Unfortunately  as  Ingraham  details  âsome conservatives took a dangerous detourâ and âthrust us into a bizarre world of globalization  wars based on idealism and nation-building  and intense hatred toward the very voters who accounted for the Reagan coalition in the first place.â
The betrayal started almost immediately after George H.W. Bush won Reaganâs third term. The Bush administration purged Reaganites  and  Ingraham  recalls that Margaret Tutwiler told Reaganite Ed Rollins at a party that âthere are a lot of us who had to suffer during the eight years of Reagan  and now itâs our turn.â
âWe were Reagan people. They were Bush people. We all knew what the differences were â  Ingraham  writes. âMany of the GOP Establishment types who behind closed doors scoffed at Reagan as a dim-witted former actor with anââultraconservativeâ outlook were now working in the Bush administration. They thought it was time to return the Republican Party to what they believed was its more genteel  respectable roots. In effect  it meant the return to power of the Rockefeller Republicans who had worked to deny Reagan the presidency in 1976.â
Bushâs Office of Management and Budget Director Richard Darman convinced Bush to infamously abandon his âread my lipsâ pledge not to raise taxes  and  in the end   Ingraham  argues that âGeorge H. W. Bush stalled the conservative-populist engine that powered Reaganism.â As Rollins said  âGeorge Bush was the beneficiary of the greatest baton pass in presidential history in 1988  and he and his people tossed it away.â
âGlobalism is fundamentally anti-American because it aims to raze American sovereignty by atrophying our ability to take independent actions that are in our nationâs best interests â  Ingraham  writes  pointing out that globalists do not understand that âbecause of the enormous anti-American sentiment around the world  itâs almost impossible to create a multinational organization where U.S. interests donât become compromised or harmed.â
Just like his father  George W. Bush campaigned as a populist but governed as a globalist.  Ingraham  blames âBushâs decision to aggressively pursue amnesty after his unpopular warâ for insulting the âmillions of conservative-populists who had worked so hard to put him in power.â
âBecause of Bush  conservatives lost everything â  she  continues. âWe lost the House. We lost the Senate. And we lost the White House.â

Answer: Positive


Question: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Doris Truong ? A couple of weeks ago   Washington Post homepage editor Doris Truong  found  herself  at the center of a partisan flame war. During a break in Rex Tillersonâs confirmation hearing for secretary of state  an Asian woman was spotted appearing to take snapshots of Tillersonâs notes. Bloggers quickly decided that the woman in the video must be Truong  who also happens to be Asian. One Reddit thread  for instance  was titled â Fake News Journalist Doris Truong  caught taking photos of Rex Tillerson's notes from confirmation hearing today.â The thing is   Truong  was not covering the Tillerson hearing. To put it in her own words: âTrolls decided I was taking pictures of Rex Tillersonâs notes. I wasnât even there.â On a typical day   Truong  gets maybe a half dozen mentions on Twitter. By 10 a.m. on Thursday  Jan. 12 â the day after  she  had been falsely identified as the woman from the picture â  she  had 4 638 new mentions since the previous evening. And it just kept going. Within 24 hours   her  handle had been mentioned 20 179 times  an increase of 185 300%  according to screenshots provided by  Truong . Hereâs what that looked like:
Note: This graphic is based on a BuzzFeed News analysis of 24 731 mentions of  Truong âs twitter handle  @doristruong  starting roughly two days before false stories of  her  started circulating on the web and ending seven days after the incident. Source: Twitterâs API
âThat initial moment of seeing the Twitter notifications was dumbfounding â  Truong  wrote in an email to BuzzFeed News. âI was looking at the app on my cellphone  where '20+' is the readout even if an account has far more mentions. I had to scroll through dozens of screens of people saying âhow dare youâ (and worse) to finally figure out what had caught their attention.â
Experiences like Truongâs are becoming more and more common. According to a recent study from Data & Society  47% of internet users aged 15 and older have experienced online harassment or abuse at some point. Thirty-six percent of all respondents reported that they had been harassed directly  meaning they had been threatened  called abusive names  or stalked. When a story goes viral  this experience is amplified. âThis idea of people coming together within specific affinity groups and behaving in ways that are really good for the âinâ group and terrible for members of the âoutâ group [...] thereâs nothing new about that â said Whitney M. Phillips  a professor at Mercer University who has been studying how people talk online for close to 10 years and who has written a book about online trolling titled This Is Why We Canât Have Nice Things. âBut having different tools means we suddenly have new superpowers.â Though online trolling has existed for years  experts like Phillips worry that the election of Donald Trump as president may embolden people who already harass others online. Trump has insulted politicians  media organizations  public figures  and private citizens on Twitter  which  in some cases  has incited his supporters to launch social media attacks on the people he singled out. He has spread and amplified skewed information and has tweeted falsehoods. âWhat do you do when the president is doing the thing that youâre trying to get average citizens not to do anymore?â said Phillips. Truongâs story became a battleground for different factions to debate their own views about the media and politics. While roughly 70% of the 100 most retweeted tweets about her contained insults against her  the media  and/or "liberals " a little less than a third of all the mentions from that same sample were trying to defend  Truong  (and a small percentage were not related to the story).
Those who believed the false story about  Truong  slung insults toward her. âWhere is your integrity? Oh wait you work for WaPo don't youâ or âMedia is SCUM â some wrote. A few also featured hashtags like #WashingtonCompost in their tweets. Others swooped in to defend her:
This factioning of responses mirrors how politically divided the nation is and just how important identity politics have become in the digital realm. Participating in debates like this is âthe digital equivalent of wearing a Make America Great Again hat and a pussy hat [...] Itâs that idea that youâre signaling your affiliation with your group â said Phillips. âIf someone comes at you screaming  itâs very tempting to scream back at them.â The most intense part of  Truong âs experience lasted approximately three days. And though she told BuzzFeed News that she was âmildly concernedâ about her safety  she wrote that she will continue to use social media platforms: âThe whole episode is not going to drive me off social media  which provides a way for me to connect with people across the miles  including strangers  and to be exposed to a diversity of opinions â including ones I disagree with.â

Answer:
Positive