Telex has published an article dedicated to how to tackle anxiety over the election results<\/a> among supporters (!) of the eventual winner P\u00e9ter Magyar. The piece is titled I Have Been Waiting for This for 16 Years, But I Still Have Anxiety, What\u2019s Wrong with Me? It seems the writing staff at Telex felt this was a common enough phenomenon to warrant an article where they speak to two psychologists about the issue.<\/p>\n\u2018Crowds celebrated, hugged each other, and danced last Sunday night after Tisza won with a two-thirds majority and ousted Fidesz after a long time. If, however, someone has been filled with mixed feelings in recent days and feels unable to rejoice, even though they\u2019ve been waiting for this change for 16 years, there\u2019s nothing wrong with them\u2014their reactions are normal. We asked psychologists to explain that strange phenomenon where something you\u2019ve longed for happens, yet you don\u2019t feel joy,\u2019 the article by Telex starts.<\/p>\n
Social psychologist J\u00f3zsef P\u00e1ntya gives his expert opinion on the issue first. According to him, an emotionally intense event like the 2026 Hungarian election campaign is expected to elicit varying reactions in people of different ages, personalities, and predispositions, even on the same side of the political aisle. He then explained that intense negative and positive emotions about an event alike tend to last shorter than we anticipate: people tend to get accustomed to positive changes quickly, while emotions sparked by negative changes are subdued by our \u2018emotional immune system,\u2019 P\u00e1ntya tells Telex.<\/p>\n
Bence P\u00e9ter B\u00edr\u00f3, the other psychologist quoted in the piece, claims that opposition voters had been under \u2018chronic stress\u2019 for 16 years, caused by what they saw as the harmful governance of the Orb\u00e1n administrations. Their nervous system may not be able to quickly adapt to the major change, which could cause anxiety, he continues, then adding that there have been studies conducted in the United States about this phenomenon. B\u00edr\u00f3 then likens the state of mind of liberal voters of Hungary to people who have escaped a long-term abusive relationship (!): those people too need some time to adapt to their new status quo, even if the change in their life was positive.<\/p>\n
\u2018B\u00edr\u00f3 likens the state of mind of liberal voters of Hungary to people who have escaped a long-term abusive relationship\u2019<\/p>\n
P\u00e1ntya goes on to suggest that the negative emotions felt by liberal voters of Hungary may just be emotional exhaustion after the intense campaign. Meanwhile, B\u00edr\u00f3 speculates that those voters now may feel doubt over whether the incoming Magyar administration will actually serve their interests and desires as they had hoped.<\/p>\n
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