www.aravot.am inquired of Samvel Khudoyan, a psychologist, whether the fact that Levon Ter-Petrossian had not nominated his candidacy had caused stress among the Congress members or not, or whether Gagik Tsarukyan’s decision had put the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) members under stress. The psychologist assured that he for one didn’t have such patients yet, and that the people who turned to him were under chronic stress, hadn’t had, let’s say, sexual relations for a long time, were neurotic patients. “It seems to me that the Congress members treated the decision with understanding, because the reason was clear and
understandable. If a person feels that he will not win, he has no chances, Levon Ter-Petrossian feels he cannot win, why should that person make unnecessary expenses? As far as Tsarukyan is concerned, I think there was an internal agreement. The whole society is under stress because of the election, because of the feeling of unfairness. People are nervous. When you watch a movie and see an unfair thing, you feel nervous inside; it is already stress. The PAP members were stressed out, when charges were laid against Vardan Oskanian. Why did they lay charges and stuff like that? When they hear that they are really stressed out. The stress caused by unfairness is great. There are social strata who take unfairness hard.”
The psychologist assured that this presidential election will hardly cause new stress for the society, “There won’t be events like those in 2008.”
It turns out that the biggest stress related to politics for the society in recent history was caused by Levon Ter-Petrossian in 2008. According to him, it was great stress, when the people heated up, got excited and then they were sent home. “That is the very unfairness stress. The people realized that they had been deceived.” We asked to clarify whether they felt deceived by Levon Ter-Petrossian, he replied: “Both he and the other deceived. There was an unfair election; they took an unfair attitude. And the feeling of unfairness, I think, is one of the most serious stresses.”
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