# Mental health **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 15, 2016, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-health/766046 "2016-09-15T22:34:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-health/766046/41 "2016-09-16T22:04:48Z")
It’s ruined for you now? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-health/766046/42 "2016-09-16T22:31:33Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > You’re right. I don’t understand why we even bother having schools, residency and board entry exams. Or why these so called “licensed experts” bother meeting people in person. Everyone can just read the DSM to diagnose friends, neighbors and public figures. I also have a degree in psychology, but never entered a practice. If it’s flu season and someone is sniffling, coughing, vomiting, running a fever, achy and just wants to sleep, it’s a pretty good bet that he has the flu, no PhD notwithstanding. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-health/766046/43 "2016-09-16T22:35:46Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > You’re right. I don’t understand why we even bother having schools, residency and board entry exams. Or why these so called “licensed experts” bother meeting people in person. Everyone can just read the DSM to diagnose friends, neighbors and public figures. Yes, :rolleyes: that’s completely what we’re doing here. I personally have prescribed 6 or 7 scripts for Trump to take on a daily basis. Or maybe we are discussing and expressing a concern that a man who is running for the highest office in the land may in fact not be…well. God forbid such a discussion take place without benefit of a medical license. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2016, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-health/766046/44 "2016-09-17T00:10:01Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I also have a degree in psychology, but never entered a practice. If it’s flu season and someone is sniffling, coughing, vomiting, running a fever, achy and just wants to sleep, it’s a pretty good bet that he has the flu, no PhD notwithstanding. Agreed. The idea that you have to get confirmation from a doctor who spends 5 minutes with you and you are his 20th patient for the day to get any kind of idea of what is wrong is silly. If I start coughing and sneezing during cold season, I don’t say ‘lets see what the doctor says, because I have no idea’. People are not helpless. Trump easily displays many of the symptoms of NPD. Does that mean he has it? Not necessarily, but it is a good shorthand to understand his dysfunctional behavior. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2016, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-health/766046/45 "2016-09-17T00:13:57Z")
> **[Is Donald Trump a textbook narcissist?](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/22/is-donald-trump-a-textbook-narcissist/)** > > Plumbing the personality of one of America’s presidential hopefuls. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2016, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-health/766046/46 "2016-09-18T00:28:59Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > I think sociopath, not psychopath. He lacks any empathy for others, and understands nothing except what he wants. The truth doesn’t matter because reality is irrelevant. Wrong pronoun. That’s a perfect description of Hillary. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2016, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-health/766046/47 "2016-09-18T01:45:43Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > …a lot of his behavior of the last few years looks a lot like early dementia as well. Nah. He’s always been demented. I’ve lived in or around NYC since 1978, and have seen him on the tabloid front pages all through that time. Never without scratching my head and saying “What is this asshole’s fucking problem?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-health/766046.md?page=2)