Many Americans suffering post-election blues

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6417285/

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NEW YORK - It’s a long way from the Manhattan office of psychoanalyst Sherman Pheiffer to the Cambridge, Mass., practice of psychologist Jaine Darwin. But both are in blue states that voted heavily for John Kerry, and on the day he conceded, they heard plenty of distress about the election.

“My patients were incredulous, depressed, angry, very frightened,” Pheiffer said. “Everyone talked about feeling frightened (about) the future of this country.”

Darwin heard the same kinds of reactions. At the end of the campaign, Massachusetts Democrats “kind of let themselves hope Kerry would pull it out,” she said, so patients felt “the roller coaster had crashed. I think we all had a little post-Red Sox magical thinking.”

And among Kerry campaign volunteers, of course, the loss was still stinging the day after the concession.

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I shed enough tears this week to prevent a drought for the next 50 years.

I can't eat much..no appetite...no desire to sleep..just want to find out more about this bbv and fraud...

Kerry would of made an excellent President...and I am scared...some people around me that don't know the whole truth..not that I do but I think I am learning more everyday about these people...dont' see how frightening it could be in the years to come..

my dad is 55 years old and very accomplished man, but that didn't stop him from crying after the election.

This loss was devastating. Hell, I'm still far from over it.