[[File:Donald Trump official photo.jpg|thumbnail|200px|The website Marketwatch reported concerning the aftermath of the 2016 presidential race: ''[[Donald Trump|Trump]]’s win is causing a surge in demand for mental health services''.<ref>[http://www.marketwatch.com/story/trumps-win-is-causing-a-surge-in-demand-for-mental-health-services-2016-11-10 Trump’s win is causing a surge in demand for mental health services], Marketwatch 2016</ref>]]
A psychogenic illness is one that originates in the mind or in a mental condition. [[Psychosomatic medicine|Psychosomatic disorders]] and [[mental illness]] that is not caused by an underlying physical condition are examples of psychogenic illnesses.
Politically, most atheists fall on the left side of the political spectrum (see: [[Atheism and politics]] and [[Secular left]]).
According to the Pew Forum, in the [[United States]]: "About two-thirds of atheists (69%) identify as [[Democrats]] (or lean in that direction), and a majority (56%) call themselves political [[liberal]]s (compared with just one-in-ten who say they are [[conservative]]s).<ref>[http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/11/05/7-facts-about-atheists/ 7 facts about atheists], Pew Forum</ref> A Harris interactive poll found that most [[United States|American]] atheists are liberal.<ref>[http://atheism.about.com/od/Atheist-Agnostic-Belief-Survey/a/Atheists-Agnostics-America-Politically-Liberal.htm Atheists & Agnostics in America Tend to be Politically Liberal]</ref>
The [[Atheism|atheist]] [[Gordon Stein]] wrote:
David Kupelian wrote: "Perhaps this is the reason, as I document in my book “The Snapping of the American Mind,” scientific surveys by both [[Gallup]] and SurveyMonkey show [[Democrats]] are roughly twice as likely as [[Republicans]] to be mentally ill.<ref>[http://www.wnd.com/2017/06/understanding-trump-derangement-syndrome/ UNDERSTANDING TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME] by David Kupelian</ref>
Many [[leftism|leftists]]/[[liberals]] were extremely upset/angry that [[Donald Trump]] won the 2106 2016 U.S presidential race and that anger has lingered(see: [[Donald Trump and American atheists]]).<ref>[http://dailysignal.com/2016/11/10/the-shocking-intolerance-of-anti-trump-liberals/ The Shocking Intolerance of Anti-Trump Liberals] by Katrina Trinko, November 10, 2016, ''The Daily Signal''</ref><ref>[http://thefederalist.com/2017/01/20/crazy-lefts-4-step-strategy-ensure-trumps-re-election-2020/ The Crazy Left’s 4-Step Strategy To Ensure Trump’s Re-Election In 2020], By Daniel Payne
JANUARY 20, 2017, The Federalist</ref>
At the [[2018 American Atheists National Convention]], the ex-president of the [[American Atheists]] organization [[David Silverman]] declared about atheist movement post President Donald Trump's election:
{{Cquote|It is a hard time to be [[Atheist activist|an atheist activist]]. This has affected us. And it has affected our community...
...it has really affected us. We are suffering a level of [[defeatism]] that I have never seen before...
We feel the loss. And we feel like we have lost. We feel like we lost the election]]... We see this cascade of attack coming down at us over and over from all different directions and we feel like it's over. I have heard so many times it makes me sick. It makes me sad. It feels like we lost.
The [[Atheism and apathy|apathy that follows]]. It doesn't matter. We can't win anyways. It's useless to fight. This apathy is infecting us. It's hurting us.
And people are reacting to each other now. And so that is [[Atheist factions|causing a division]]. Lots and lots of division in our movement. Hard, bad division... And that has resulted in a splintering and factioning of the movement that I have never seen before and none of us have.
In other words, we're in a bad situation and it's getting worse.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8VYLMYvImc David Silverman - How the Mighty Get Back Up]</ref>}}
Later in 2018, Silverman was fired due to allegations of financial conflicts and sexual assault (see also: [[Atheism and sexism]]).<ref>[https://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/david-silverman-atheist-fired-sexual-misconduct?utm_term=.yt64RqDPA#.ordaNrO4R This Firebrand Atheist Was Just Fired After Allegations Of Financial Conflicts And Sexual Assault]</ref>
[[File:PZ Myers at Skepticon 7.jpg|thumbnail|250px|left|[[PZ Myers]] ]]
In January of 2017, the atheist and secular leftist [[PZ Myers]] said about Donald Trump's presidential victory:
The website Marketwatch reported concerning the aftermath of the 2016 presidential race: ''Trump’s win is causing a surge in demand for mental health services''<ref>[http://www.marketwatch.com/story/trumps-win-is-causing-a-surge-in-demand-for-mental-health-services-2016-11-10 Trump’s win is causing a surge in demand for mental health services], Marketwatch 2016</ref>
The U.S. Supreme Court Justice [[Brett Kavanaugh]], who was appointed by Trump, is a judge who has ruled in favor of [[religious liberty]] in his past decisions.<ref>[https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/07/18/these-6-cases-show-how-brett-kavanaugh-might-rule-on-religious-freedom/ These 6 Cases Show How Brett Kavanaugh Might Rule on Religious Freedom], Daily Signal, 2018</ref> U.S. Supreme Court Justice [[Neil Gorsuch]], who was also nominated to the court by Trump, gave a favorable ruling in the [[Hobby Lobby]] case in respect to religious liberty.<ref>[http://time.com/4705858/neil-gorsuch-religious-minorities/ Neil Gorsuch Has a Record of Protecting Religious Minorities], Time magazine, 2017</ref> See also: [[Morale of the atheist movement]]
=== Greta Christina, depression and Donald Trump's presidential victory ===
[[File:Greta Christina at Skepticon.jpg|thumbnail|200px|right|[[Greta Christina]] in 2014.]]
This is the question everyone seems to be asking these days. Trump’s rise has defied the predictions of pundits and pollsters, repeatedly embarrassing those who swore that he would flame out. I’m a political scientist, and I count myself among that number. In September, I offered my students a $500 bet that he wouldn’t become the Republican nominee — a wager I’m increasingly glad that none of them took me up on.<ref>[http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/03/donald-trump-2016-political-science-213755 5 Political Myths Trump Is Exploding] by Emily Thorson, Politico</ref>}}
== Irreligious BritainSecular leftists, Brexit and spike in mental health office visits ==
[[File:United Kingdom EU referendum 2016 area results.svg.png|thumb|200px|Brexit results. Blue-shaded areas stand for council areas that voted "Leave". Orange stand for "Remain".]]
Therapists everywhere are reporting shockingly elevated levels of anxiety and despair, with few patients wishing to talk about anything else. Mental health referrals have already begun to mushroom. Why is the Brexit vote affecting us so personally? And, what does this tell us about the make-up of our psyches?<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/29/eu-referendum-mental-health-vote The EU referendum has caused a mental health crisis] by Jay Watts, The Guardian</ref>}}
The columnist Patrick West wrote in his article ''The Post-Brexit Ugliness of the left'':
{{Cquote|The liberal-left couldn’t understand why people would vote in the name of abstract principles such as ‘democracy’ or ‘freedom’ or ‘self-determination’, because they view everything in terms of their own money and their own public image.
There was a time when it was Tories who sneered at the poor, who deplored them as stupid and feckless. This was in the loadsamoney era of the 1980s, during which the market ruled and we were beholden to the whims of capitalists and the sainted market. There was even a time, many years ago, when the left spoke of principles, of democracy and liberty. How the roles have been reversed. How strange that it’s mostly conservatives who now talk in abstractions, and it’s the left that obsesses about the markets and worry about the FTSE 100, about their own money.<ref>[http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/the-post-brexit-ugliness-of-the-left/18538 ''The Post-Brexit Ugliness of the left''] by Patrick West</ref>}}
== Dawkins' disinvitation to speak at a skeptics conference due to a feminism/Islam controversy and subsequent stroke ==
*[[Atheism and hatred of God]]
*[[Trump derangement syndrome]]
*[[Militant atheism vs. Christianity, Islam and right-wing ideology]]
== Notes ==