A Collective Unease in the Age of Divisive Leadership
There was a time when politics stayed where it belonged — in the evening news, or in short debates over coffee. We could agree to disagree, and then go back to our lives. But today, politics has moved into our minds and hearts. It lives on our screens, in our family chats, even in our sleepless nights.
In the United States, psychologists have a name for this: Trump Anxiety Disorder — the collective tension triggered by a single leader. It sounds like a joke, but it’s real. Many people felt anxious, angry, or even hopeless whenever they read about their president. The harsh tone, the attacks on the media, the unpredictable decisions — all of it created a sense of constant unease.
Yet this isn’t just America’s story. We’ve seen similar symptoms elsewhere, including here. A kind of social illness that spreads when politics becomes too loud, too personal, and too full of anger. Sometimes it’s not the policies that exhaust us, but the emotional atmosphere of a nation that never seems to calm down.
This sickness doesn’t show up on a medical chart. It reveals itself in other ways: the quick temper on social media, the shrinking empathy, the growing distrust. We become a society on edge — suspicious, irritable, and quietly tired. These are signs that we’re not well, at least not socially.
Perhaps the cure isn’t as complicated as it seems. Maybe we just need to turn the volume down — to relearn how to speak, listen, and pause. Politics shouldn’t be a battlefield; it should be a shared space for thinking about our future together. When citizens find calm, even leaders lose the reason to shout.
Healing begins when we remember that democracy is not a performance, but a conversation. It grows when people rebuild trust — in facts, in institutions, and in one another. It deepens when empathy returns to public life, when disagreement no longer feels like enmity. Slowly, through honesty and kindness, a nation can find its balance again.
Because in the end, a healthy democracy begins with something very simple: the peace of mind of its people. 💆
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