Doctor Tells Mark Halperin His Patients Are Experiencing 9/11-Like ‘Crises’ With Trump Back In Office: ‘Just About As Intense’

A Wyoming doctor told Mark Halperin Thursday evening many of his patents are in crisis after President Donald Trump took office for a second time last month.

Internal medicine physician Glenn Burnett joined Halperin on 2WAY Tonight, where he compared the mental health of patients he has treated since Trump won the 2024 election to those he saw after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.

Burnett explained his patients are from “all walks of life” before Halperin noted he was concerned before the election that a Trump win might cause untold voters to become “deeply troubled.” He explained:

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. 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 last – 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. 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.

The doctor lamented that elections are held every four years just before the holidays and said he had seen a great deal of patients who had cut family members off since the election.

“I’ve been a physician for 30 years. I’ve never seen this happen before — I mean, to this level — where people just completely disinvited their families and that there’s just this huge breach in normal family dynamics,” Burnett said. “I was a physician during 9/11, and it was like this then. But it was everybody. This is just about as intense, but it’s not everybody. And people are having real crises.”

Burnett concluded he believed extreme thinking about climate, elections, and other issues that concern Americans had led to people developing mental health issues.

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