“So first of all, identify it for us. You’re in a session, and you pick up on what?” Faulkner asked.
“Well, Harris, it doesn’t take long for me to pick up on this. People are obsessed with Trump. They’re fixated. They’re hyper-fixated on Trump,” Alpert responded. “I had one patient who said she couldn’t enjoy a vacation because any time she saw Trump in the news or on her device, she felt triggered. This is a profound pathology, and I would even go so far as to call it the defining pathology of our time.”
The therapist reaffirmed his claim that “three-quarters of my patients will present with a lot of these symptoms, and within probably five minutes of seeing me, their hatred for Trump comes up.”