The Trump Era and the American Mind
How a decade of political stress, division, and outrage has affected mental health in America
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We’ve talked a lot about Donald Trump’s mental state. But it’s worth stopping to look at ours.
Something has gone wrong with our mental health.
Not overnight. Not because of one bad year. But steadily, over about a decade. And when you line up the data, the research, and what people say they feel every day, one thing stands out:
The Trump era has not been mentally healthy for a lot of Americans.
