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(10,214 posts) Thu Feb 16, 2017, 08:55 AM Feb 2017

Psychiatrist: Calling Donald Trump Mentally Ill Is An Insult To The Mentally Ill [View all]

A leading psychiatrist is pushing back after a group of industry professionals wrote a letter to The New York Times saying Donald Trump suffers from “grave emotional instability” that “makes him incapable of serving safely as president.”

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He may be a world-class narcissist, but this doesn’t make him mentally ill, because he does not suffer from the distress and impairment required to diagnose mental disorder,” he wrote.

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“Mr. Trump causes severe distress rather than experiencing it and has been richly rewarded, rather than punished, for his grandiosity, self-absorption and lack of empathy. It is a stigmatizing insult to the mentally ill (who are mostly well behaved and well meaning) to be lumped with Mr. Trump (who is neither).”

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Psychiatrist: Calling Donald Trump Mentally Ill Is An Insult To The Mentally Ill [View all] HAB911 Feb 2017 OP

K&R, our media does a giant disservice to the mentally ill ck4829 Feb 2017 #1

This guy has been a dick for ages , Same goes for all the oh its all just Alzheimer's comments lunasun Feb 2017 #2

Few people with narcissistic personality disorder experience distress from it. pnwmom Feb 2017 #3

Excellent point n/t TexasBushwhacker Feb 2017 #8

From exhibiting traits to clearly impaired loyalsister Feb 2017 #11

Many psychiatrists and psychologists at this point have spoken out pnwmom Feb 2017 #13

And others have pointed out that it is not valid loyalsister Feb 2017 #16

No, logically it is NOT an expansion. To say that one person has such a profound pnwmom Feb 2017 #17

Do we know of a time when he has not lived in a world that required serious responsibility? loyalsister Feb 2017 #18

Nothing like what he's dealing with now, and he has no Daddy around to bail him out. pnwmom Feb 2017 #21

It's obvious that he is too thin skinned to accept criticism loyalsister Feb 2017 #22

He IS deeply impaired. He is completely unable to see anything other than pnwmom Feb 2017 #23

Are you certain he is unable rather than unwilling? loyalsister Feb 2017 #24

No, impairment doesn't have to be just physical. He has a mental impairment pnwmom Feb 2017 #25

I didn't say it did loyalsister Feb 2017 #26

There are plenty of psychiatrists who have gone on record disagreeing pnwmom Feb 2017 #30

And the one who actually defined the diagnosis disagrees loyalsister Feb 2017 #31

I thought that was pretty funny. He's awfully old then because the personality pnwmom Feb 2017 #33

Keywords: Blue_Roses Feb 2017 #28

The lies are serving a purpose loyalsister Feb 2017 #32

He definitely has a personality disorder/malignancy. However, he's also definitely mentally ill. KittyWampus Feb 2017 #4

Some are also suggesting learning disability loyalsister Feb 2017 #9

No, it's not. jberryhill Feb 2017 #5

Yes, it is. Act_of_Reparation Feb 2017 #6

No. The reason the diagnosis is significant is because it is predictive. pnwmom Feb 2017 #14

He is textbook NPD jberryhill Feb 2017 #20

Yeah, wow. That's fascinating. Act_of_Reparation Feb 2017 #34

So what? jberryhill Feb 2017 #35

Yes, you're entitled to be wrong, if that's your wish. Act_of_Reparation Feb 2017 #37

If nothing else works, apply a stigmatized condition loyalsister Feb 2017 #7

I definitely understand where this guy is coming from. On the other hand.... Tommy_Carcetti Feb 2017 #10

No, not buying it. This person takes the context completely out of what those psychiatrists R B Garr Feb 2017 #12

Good point. Not every person with a mental illness is as profoundly impaired as he is. pnwmom Feb 2017 #15

there has been much controversy bdamomma Feb 2017 #19

Here is my professional diagnosis: smirkymonkey Feb 2017 #27

But think about it. He can buy a gun thanks to the Congressional GOPers! nikibatts Feb 2017 #29

Regardless of the assessment Drumpf his condition disqualifies him to be President. LiberalFighter Feb 2017 #36