I don't sleep well normally, but I recognize I slept WORSE during the last 2 years of his administration.
Edit: I would wake up and immediate check the news to see what's changed for the worse while I slept lol
Now I just do what I did prior, where I wake up and shower, then just chill for a minute before starting my day. On my days off, I immediate go downstairs and either do a chore or turn on a game.
Objectively, I sleep better than 2019/2020 especially.
It's definitely less stressful now. He was absolutely amazing for his capability to always hit a new low, ethically, morally, intellectually. Every time you thought he'd done or said the most reprehensible or idiotic thing possible, he always found a new way to be even worse.
He was amazing in that way, but personally I'd rather not be amazed in this way every day.
It was shameful. We've had bad presidents, immoral presidents, corrupt presidents, and not-particularly-bright presidents. We've never had one that was the worst of all of these by several magnitudes. And the fact that half of our country is too tribalistic to just be like "yeah whoops, we fucked up, this guy sucks. Dems can have the presidency for four years. We'll be back"...not even that, but that they dug in and worship the fool...
Those four years, along with this pandemic, have fundamentally altered the way I look at our country now. Things are so much worse than I had thought.
At the very end, between the election and the actual inauguration, I woke up every morning expecting him to have dropped a bomb or provoked an attack on us in the middle of the night.
I sleep a lot better. But not as good as I did pre-2016. There’s this thin layer of existential dread that permeates everything. He almost won and he might win again. And even if he doesn’t the people who voted for him are all still here.
I honestly don't know. The dark triad has more than just narcissism on it, so I'm not going to pretend my elementary level of psychology education knows if one can exist without the other or not.
I used to have mild anxiety and perfectly reliable digestion. Starting November 2016 I had terrible, can’t-sleep, can’t-breathe-right anxiety and quickly developed an ulcer that didn’t go away for two years. I’m doing better now but I definitely would’ve preferred to skip all that.
Bro its good to stay informed but you should really turn the news off for the sake of your mental health. The news is designed to make people scared. Theres no point in stressing out about shit you can only control by casting a ballot
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u/russellzerotohero 16d ago
This is actually so funny it’s hard to believe it’s real. He’s like a sitcom character