Psychiatrist: Calling Donald Trump Mentally Ill Is An Insult To The Mentally Ill

[pnwmom]

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

And he has failed mightily in the past.

I didn't say that narcissistic traits are mental illness in and of themselves. I said the opposite -- there is a healthy degree of narcissism -- but he is not healthy. He's deeply impaired.

The point isn't to put the "stink" of mental illness on him -- it's to assign him a correct diagnosis that leads to a particular prognosis: there is no cure or even good treatment for his problem. And he won't "grow into" the critically important job he's been given. It will either break him or he will break us.

If EVERYONE understood that he had a profoundly narcissistic personality disorder, then no one would believe it when they heard things like this -- because he cannot change:


http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/319714-mcconnell-trump-makes-own-goals-harder

“ 10 to 15 points higher if he allowed himself to stay on message,” McConnell told the Weekly Standard Wednesday, referencing Trump’s approval rating. "What he’s saying makes everything harder. harder to achieve what you want to achieve.”

McConnell said he had repeatedly urged Trump to tone down his rhetoric, especially on his Twitter account. “He doesn’t always take my advice,” he said, noting the president is the “most criticized person in the world.”