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Individual therapists also noted an unprecedented amount of panic and anxiety over the election. Danielle Cohn, a doctoral student in Clinical Psychology at American University, has worked in the outpatient practice of a DC-based mental health clinic for three years and told me she's never had any world event come up as much with clients as with this election."I worked at McLean [a psychiatric hospital in Boston] during the Boston Marathon bombings, and even that didn't affect people in the same way," she told me. "This election is much more personally triggering for people.""I worked at [a psychiatric hospital in Boston] during the Boston Marathon bombings, and even that didn't affect people in the same way." — Danielle Cohn
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