Middle-class Remoaners ‘so upset by Brexit they’ve developed a psychological disorder’, top doctors warn
Top psychologists said many pro-EU supporters are expressing symptoms similar to chronic anxiety - and are prone to anger and despair
IT'S official - some Remoaners are so upset about Brexit they could be suffering from a psychological disorder.
Top doctors and psychiatrists have warned that many pro-EU supporters are acting in the same way as if they were suffering from chronic anxiety, and are becoming prone to anger and despair after our historic vote to leave the bloc in 2016.
Dr Philip Corr, professor of psychology and behavioural economics at the University of London, and Dr. Simon Stuart, a clinical psychologist, that patients could be becoming seeking comfort in demonising the "other" for their problems.
They said Remainers were dismissing their opponents who voted for Brexit as stupid and racist - in a sign they were dividing up the population into those who agreed with them and those who didn't.
“On both sides of the debate, there is evidence of considerable ‘in-group’ love and ‘out-group’ hate,” Dr Corr said. “This is only to be expected given the social psychological dynamics of the debate.”
Britain's Brexit future has yet to be decided. As ministers push for a deal they are also getting ready for what might happen in case we don't get one.
This week the Government will issue several notices filled with information on how each sector can get ready for not securing an agreement next year.
But it's this uncertainty that's causing Remainers to grow more panicked and anxious - and on high alert for new threats, the psychologists claimed.
Dr Stuart added that there was a "loss of behavioural control" for many Remainers now we've taken the decision to leave the EU, which was causing them to act differently.
He said for the traditional liberal elite, leaving the EU was "incredibly anxiety-provoking".
He added: "Human beings hate uncertainty... this is something that people living in poverty know only too well.
"And now, all of a sudden, the professional, liberal, educated middle class is getting a taste of this. It feels horrible — literally ‘feels,’ because we’re experiencing a physical stress response.”
But hitting out at Brexiteers isn't making Remainers feel any better, Dr Stuart said.
“Trouble is, in the longer term it’s not really doing anything other than keeping us going round in circles, constantly talking about Brexit and winding ourselves up,” he explained.
The pair said that when Brexit gets sorted out in the next few months, the symptoms of 'Brexit Anxiety Disorder' should subside.
But to feel better they should try not to get "caught up trying to change things they can't change".
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NOW we know why so many diehard Remainers are as crazy as flies on a window. They HAVE gone mad.
Brexit Anxiety Disorder is real, two top psychologists believe. It certainly explains the gibbering hallucinations of Andrew Adonis and his mates.
Two grievous losses tipped this complacent Remoaner elite over the edge:
The control over our national direction to which they always felt entitled. And our departure from the corrupt, bullying, protectionist EU club they bizarrely consider a beacon of liberal values.
Their latest co-ordinated ruse — backed by rich celebrities, has-been politicians and former newspapers — is to pretend a second referendum would “bring a divided Britain together”.
They are actually arguing that after two years of abusing 17.4million Leavers as thick racists, Remainers now deserve a second chance to get what they wanted. And that, whatever the result, we would all magically unite behind it.
If there’s a more laughably mad contention, we haven’t heard it.
We might once have wondered what they were smoking. But the truth is simpler: they are just genuinely barking.
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