‘Real Crises’: Doctor Tells Mark Halperin His Patients Struggling With ‘Genuine Fear, Panic’ After Trump Win

Jackson, Wyoming internal medicine physician Glenn Burnett told political analyst Mark Halperin on Thursday that his patients are struggling with significant mental health issues in the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s November election win.

Halperin had warned in October that he believed a Trump victory would trigger an historic “mental health crisis,” prompting issues including addiction, divorce and violence. While Burnett did not cite those specific issues on Halperin’s “2WAY TONIGHT,” he did note some of his patients have “depression, anxiety” and similar “medical problems,” comparing the intensity of the symptoms to what occurred after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S.

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“Well, the first thing I would say is I am very, very careful when I talk to patients about expressing any of my own political views. That is never done in the office. But what has happened is I am just bombarded with all kinds of things all the time,” Burnett said. “I would say, to be fair, to set it up — when Biden was the president, I had all kinds of stuff from the other side. But it has been extremely intense. The week or two after the election was pretty intense. It then calmed down and now it’s really back up.”

“We are dealing with depression, anxiety, all kinds of medical problems that are related to that, like insomnia, chest pain, chest pressure. And then people are — there’s some genuine fear, panic,” he continued. “I hear things from people all the time that I just — I don’t want to repeat because they’re — people, I don’t think, would believe me, that just people have these very, very severe anxieties about what is going to happen to them. And it is affecting their lives.”