Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says that she’s been forced to seek therapy because of her mental health issues following the attempted coup at the U.S. Capitol back in January.
AOC said that she and other members of Congress felt like they were serving in a war during the “all-out attempted coup” during what she calls the most traumatizing moment of her life.
She also said that the event had deeply affected her “lawmaking” and impacted the legislative process. Here’s what she has to say.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez In Therapy For Mental Health Issues, Blames Trump Administration
Speaking to Latino USA this week, AOC said that she’s not only doing therapy but she’s also slowed down the pace in her life a bit, too. “You have this transition period of escalating violence, which really culminated on the 6th, for which was an extraordinarily traumatizing event that’s not really being discussed,” she said during her interview.
“After the 6th, I took some time and it was really [Rep.] Ayanna Pressley when I explained to her what happened to me, like the day of, because I ran to her office,” AOC explained. “And she was like, ‘You need to recognize trauma. And this is something that you went through, but we’re all going through. And it’s really important to pause after that, because that’s how you process it.’ ”
She also compared how she felt during the attempted coup to when her father died when she was in college. She also blames some of her mental health issues on the Trump administration
“That happened at a young age, and I locked it away,” AOC explained. “I had to live with that for years, and so, I learned my lesson then. And now, I feel like I’ve had to take a beat. I think the Trump administration had a lot of us, especially Latino communities, in a very reactive mode.”
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