Analysis of post-9/11 blogs show the worst emotional shock eases in about two weeks

Whenever I feel bad, I can’t help but believe that I will feel bad forever. After we elected Donald Trump on Tuesday, I felt very bad.But I also know that self-reporting is notoriously inaccurate. Negative emotions feel overwhelming in the moment, but they almost always wane. So just how long will it be before I, and others who are unhappy with this outcome, go back to some semblance of normal?For some clues to that answer, we can look at an interesting study done by James Pennebaker, a ps