Congressional Democrats have a long way to go before they can function as normal Americans, but at least they have taken the first step — acknowledging that they need help:

House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) enlisted psychologists to help Democrats on the panel cope with President Donald Trump’s first week in office.

Trump derangement syndrome could be hitting Raskin especially hard. Laughs House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY):

“Jamie Raskin has faced a difficult few months. The American people rejected what Jamie Raskin and other Democrats were selling, President Trump won in a landslide, and Jamie Raskin even received a preemptive pardon from Joe Biden — a move the Biden Justice Department has argued implies an admission of guilt.”

Reports Punchbowl News:

During a retreat last week for Judiciary Democrats, Raskin — the new ranking member of the key panel — hosted Jim Coan, a University of Virginia professor of psychology, and Hal Movius…

Movius is a consultant who specializes in “emotion regulation,” a key vulnerability for Democrats.

Yet Ratskin says the psychologists were called in to help the party of Big Government combat “authoritarian styles of speech in the Trump age” — suggesting that Democrats still don’t realize that the problem is them.

On a tip from Franco.