Donald Trump is not mentally ill

[NCDem777]

Take it from the guy who writes the definitions of mental illness. Sometimes a jerk is just a jerk.

http://us.blastingnews.com/opinion/2017/02/donald-trump-is-not-mentally-ill-001444885.html

[Goonch]

1. mental illness

[NCDem777]

15. With all due respect

are you his doctor?

[UTUSN]

19. Ill/not-ill I don't give a damn, how about totally distasteful/a-hole/autocrat/insecure/

jerk/unbecoming-an-officer/unworthy-of-human-interaction/pendejo/grandson-of-a-brothel-keeper/ dot dot dot?!1


Do any of those (and *many* more) non-diagnostic labels work for you?!1

[world wide wally]

2. This is one of those rare combinations of both of these conditions

[Vinca]

3. Well, that's one guy who thinks he isn't nuts. Many psychiatrists and psychologists have been

saying the exact opposite. All I can say is that years ago I worked in a psychiatric hospital and Don the Con seems awfully familiar.

[loyalsister]

7. They are violating the standard of not making a dx unless they have evaluated him personally

because it is unethical and irresponsible.

[NCDem777]

8. Just about to say that

[Vinca]

17. While ethically true, what you see is what you get.

[loyalsister]

4. Exactly

He's also a bully.
He has spent his life in a privileged bubble where he probably could fire anyone who tells him he's wrong.

[Merlot]

5. There is a big difference between personality disorder

and mental illness. disordered people can ususally live their lives ok (while making those around them miserable). Mentally ill people have a lot more obsticles.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

11. Personality disorders are still listed in the DSM as a mental "disorder" so you could still loosely

call him "mentally ill," I believe. They do a lot of "crazy" things (suicidal gestures) that cause them to be baker acted/petitioned and hospitalized. You so are right about them making everyone around them miserable. Being in the psych field, we tremble when we hear someone with a personality disorder is arriving. They cause as much trouble as 50 other people with any other disorder (what we used to call axis I disorder.) there is no pill you can give them to help.

I would not be surprised if he did not have bipolar 2 disorder. Anyone who has declared bankruptcy as many times he has, has had as many sexual scandals and is awake and tweeting crazy shit at 3 am and also stating (and believing) that he can solve the world's problems with craaaaazy solutions would be an excellent example. He also exhibits very risky and grandiose behavior.

[Merlot]

14. Yes, I get that.

My concern is that by calling drumptf "mentally ill" it takes away his responsibility for his horrible behavior. A lot of highly functioning people are disordered and live "normal" lives. I've had experience with one or two disordered people and understand how you feel when you hear someone with a personality disorder is arriving.

When I hear the words "mental illness" I think of schizophrenia where it's obvious that the person is ill. I feel for those people.

Due to my previous experiences, nothing is suprising me so at least I'm not feeling the anxiety so many people are. His actions are horrible and doing irreparable damage to our country. But people who think if we get rid of drumptf we get rid of the problem are not holding the rest of the repubs accountable.

[Maru Kitteh]

6. Donald Fucking Trump has at least one personality disorder and characteristics of many

others.

Denying this at this point with all the available evidence puts one on the level of climate denial.

[NCDem777]

9. Unless a psychologist who has interacted with Trump personally

says that then ethically, I have to go with the just a jerk theory.

[loyalsister]

10. evidence??

The psychiatrists, psychologists, and people who love to diagnose people from a distance have not had access to any direct evaluative information to make a Dx. It's a ridiculous, ableist narrative.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

13. If someone had access to tapes of him being interviewed, could interview family members, read

his writings, I wouldn't condemn a professional for giving them a "provisional diagnosis." We have people who refuse to speak to us or cooperate and we diagnose them all the time..... It may not be totally "proper" to "officially" diagnose a person without questioning them directly, but people are diagnosed all the time with a lot less information than we have about Trump, truthfully.

[loyalsister]

18. Yeah

And, people desperately search for a diagnosis of people who shoot up theaters and churches. In both cases it lets the aggressor off the hook, while demonizing people who experience true mental illness. It puts greater distance between the observer and the perpatrator.
It also cruelly exploits the reality of mental illness. It's ableist bigotry.

[demmiblue]

12. I'm not clicking on that link... it is not a legitimate site. n/t

[TrekLuver]

16. I think he has a personality disorder or two and he is a bully and a dick. He's also not that

smart...however, he not the dumbest person in the world either...he does know how to play people and how to get what he wants. He's "street smart" and a con artist who has skirted some laws and manipulated others.

He is a terrible person with no redeeming qualities.