75 Percent Sick: Inside the TDS Pathology Wave
What people jokingly call TDS has been floating around the internet for nearly a decade now. It’s become a meme, a punchline, and just simply a way to mock liberals’ political hysteria. But underneath all the jokes, something much more serious has been taking shape. What looked like comedy has morphed into a genuine psychological event. And now a practicing psychotherapist is flat-out calling it the defining pathology of our time. Let’s break it down.
Jonathan Alpert went on FOX News and revealed that a whopping 75% of the patients walking into his office are not talking about their marriages, careers, or trauma from their past. They are talking about Donald Trump. Not casually. Not politically. But obsessively.
These people are not just disagreeing with Trump. They’re living in emotional orbit around him. Alpert described patients who can’t sleep, who can’t concentrate, and who can’t even enjoy a vacation because the moment Trump appears in a headline or pops up on their phone, they feel instantly “triggered.” One woman told him she couldn’t relax on a beach because seeing Trump’s name ruined her day. Just take a moment to imagine a grown adult, sitting in the sun, psychologically derailed by the existence of a politician. Pure insanity.
Alpert didn’t sugarcoat any of it. He said what honest people have known for years. This is not normal anxiety. This is not activism. This is pathology. And again, in his words, it’s shaping up to be the defining psychological disorder of our era.
But Alpert is not the only one flagging this crazy, ever-developing wave of TDS pathology. Clinicians across the country have been mapping the exact same pattern. A therapy collective in D.C. broke it down in plain language and said the political fixation around Trump has moved far beyond ordinary stress. What they are seeing looks a lot more like anxiety spirals, compulsive thought loops, and full emotional dysregulation. People are not just worked up. They are losing their grip, mentally and, in some cases, on reality itself.
Honestly, when you lay all of this out, the pattern becomes impossible to ignore. What people have been calling “TDS” as a joke has slowly morphed into something that looks a lot more like dependency. Not the kind that comes from substances like alcohol or drugs, but the kind that comes from fixation. The kind that hijacks the nervous system, rewires emotional reactions, and turns one man into a psychological trigger point for millions.
Alpert calls it pathology. The D.C. clinicians describe obsession loops and stress responses that mirror addiction. And anyone who has watched this play out in real time knows the symptoms already: the constant checking, emotional spikes, and the inability to detach, even in peaceful environments. A TDS-affected liberal becomes addicted to the outrage because the outrage gives them a sense of identity they can’t generate on their own.
This is why the people who swear they “hate Trump the most” are the same ones refreshing their phones every five minutes to find more of him. This is literally a bizarre coping mechanism that has swallowed their real lives, their mental health, and in some cases their entire sense of reality.
NOW YOU KNOW
The pathology isn’t Trump. It’s the people who can’t live without hating him.
https://www.cypher-news.com/2025/11/75-percent-sick-inside-the-tds-pathology-wave/