dasmoocher:
…I replied “Read this.” and posted the link to the Wikipedia article about Narcissistic personality disorder .
To me, this has always been obvious. Now we probably have dementia, as well.
Another guy asked for an example of any Trump lie. I went with how about when Trump said: “I’m, like, a very smart person.”
Not to mention, a bunch of shrinks wrote a book about it a year and a half ago (October 2017). They were criticized because they had not met the patient. Thump doesn’t know the meaning of an unexpressed [del]thought[/del] tweet, so why does anyone need to meet him?
Full title: The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President
Reviewed in the Washington Post along with other books on related topics.
Gone are the days when euphemisms about President Trump’s mental health insulated the man like so many padded walls. Erratic. Unpredictable. Unstable. Unmoored. Temperamentally unfit. This was what politicians and commentators said when they wished to question Trump’s state of mind but feared the consequences of a more colloquial assessment. Yet the deeper we plunge into this presidency, the more willing people become to call it like they see and hear it.
Now, some psychiatrists and other mental-health professionals are shedding long-held norms to argue that Trump’s condition presents risks to the nation and the world. “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump” features more than two dozen essays breaking down the president’s perceived traits, which the contributors find consistent with symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder, sociopathy and other maladies. “Collectively with our coauthors, we warn that anyone as mentally unstable as Mr. Trump simply should not be entrusted with the life-and-death powers of the presidency,” Judith Lewis Herman of Harvard Medical School and Bandy X. Lee of the Yale School of Medicine write in the book’s prologue…
Cite
It’s gotten worse, and unfortunately, we’re getting used to it.