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The divisions are rupturing families as people realize that values they thought were shared are not. “People are looking at loved ones with different eyes,” Brown said.

Tara Well, an associate professor of psychology at Barnard College, is seeing “emotional contagion.”

“An emotion catches, like fear or anger,” Well said. This happens on a massive scale through social media, she said, noting a 2013 study that found that “emotions expressed by others on Facebook influence our own emotions.”

Even Trump supporters worry about how policy changes could affect them. For many, concerns about health care are front and centre.

With talk of privatizing Medicare, a policy advocated by House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and Health and Human Services nominee Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., resurfacing, “a lot of patients and geriatric individuals ask, ‘What’s going to happen to our health care?’ ” said J.R. Green, chief executive officer at Senior Life Solutions, which provides hospital-based geriatric outpatient behavioural health care in rural communities through 41 programs in 15 states.

Many depend on Medicare and are worried-with reason, he said-that privatization could mean a significant reduction in the kind of care that’s available. The president has said he opposes privatizing Medicare.

About 60 percent of respondents to a survey by TalkSpace are dealing with some form of post-election stress, and 25 percent are “very stressed.” At least, they were on Inauguration Day, according to the poll by the messaging app, which that connects patients with therapists, in partnership with HealthMap researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital. Judging by the events of the past three weeks, it’s hard to imagine that Americans, whether friend or foe of the president, are much calmer now.