As \u2018political depression\u2019 enters public discourse, therapists are encouraging people to engage with their communities<\/p>\n
When Rebecca McFaul woke up in her small farmhouse in Logan, Utah, on a cold January day, she felt the same way she\u2019d been feeling for months: \u201cA certain kind of terror and horror at it all.\u201d Most of her family lives in Minnesota, and for weeks, she\u2019d watched from afar as families were taken by agents, activists were shot and tear gas hung in the air.<\/p>\n
A music professor at Utah State University, she\u2019d spent the day with her students, but struggled to focus. Then she came home and read more bad news, this time, a piece in the newspaper about two Maga influencers railing against the dangers of compassion in response to the detainment of 5-year-old Liam Ramos<\/a> in Minneapolis. \u201cIt was such a betrayal on every level,\u201d McFaul said. \u201cOf sisterhood, of motherhood, of decency.\u201d<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As \u2018political depression\u2019 enters public discourse, therapists are encouraging people to engage with their communities When Rebecca McFaul woke up in her small farmhouse in Logan, Utah, on a cold January day, she felt the same way she\u2019d been feeling for months: \u201cA certain kind of terror and horror at it all.\u201d Most of her … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}