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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Texacon on October 24, 2024, 06:31:53 AM
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https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219600691
Ramsey Barner (578 posts)
Thu Oct 24, 2024, 06:21 AM
A letter from 200+ mental health professionals on Trump's dangerous psychopathology
[This letter will run as a print ad in The New York Times.]
A letter from mental health professionals on Trump’s dangerous psychopathology - Anti-Psychopath Political Action Committee
As mental health professionals, we have an ethical duty to warn the public that Donald Trump is an existential threat to democracy. His symptoms of severe, untreatable personality disorder—malignant narcissism—makes him deceitful, destructive, deluded, and dangerous. He is grossly unfit for leadership.
Trump exhibits behavior that tracks with the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual’s (DSM V) diagnostic criteria for “narcissistic personality disorder,” “antisocial personality disorder,” and “paranoid personality disorder,” all made worse by his intense sadism, which is a symptom of malignant narcissism. This psychological type was first identified by German psychologist Erich Fromm to explain the psychology of history’s most “evil” dictators.
Detractors object that we mental health professionals cannot render such a diagnosis without first examining the patient, citing the “Goldwater Rule.” We believe that we have an overriding ethical duty to warn the public of the danger this individual poses. History has taught us that in such circumstances, saying nothing is never the more ethical choice.
Since the Goldwater Rule was adopted, the field has modernized the DSM diagnostic system, which relies exclusively on “observable behavioral criteria.” For many years, we’ve all observed thousands of hours of Trump’s behavior, reinforced by the observations of dozens of individuals who have interacted with him personally. Using the DSM V, it is easy to see that Trump meets the behavioral criteria for antisocial personality disorder. Even a non-clinician can see that Trump shows a lifetime pattern of “failure to conform to social norms and laws,” “repeated lying,” “reckless disregard for the safety of others,” “irritability,” “impulsivity,” “irresponsibility,” and “lack of remorse.”
Because of their sadism, malignant narcissists often derive joy from inflicting suffering on others because they disregard the emotions and wellbeing of other people—especially their perceived enemies. For example, according to first-hand accounts, Trump watched the violence he unleashed on January 6 for three hours on TV with “glee,” watching his favorite parts “over and over” on “rewind.”
To make matters worse, Trump appears to be showing signs of cognitive decline that urgently cry out for a full neurological work-up, including an MRI and neuropsychological testing. These symptoms include: a dramatic decrease in verbal fluency, tangential thinking, diminished vocabulary, overuse of superlatives and filler words, perseveration, confabulation, phonemic paraphasia, semantic paraphasia, confusing people (not just names), as well as exhibiting deteriorating judgment, impulse control, and motor functioning (including a wide-based gait). We suspect the results of such an evaluation would be disqualifying. If, as we suspect, Trump does have organically based cognitive decline, it will only get worse over time, grossly degrading his already impaired judgment, impulse control, memory, attention, reality testing, and capacity to process information, while dramatically exacerbating the symptoms of his toxic personality disorder.
People suffering with mental illness are no more likely to be dangerous than the general population. Malignant narcissism is the very rare exception. Without question, malignant narcissists have been history’s most grandiose, paranoid, and murderous leaders. Inevitably, they escalate until they are completely out of control, ultimately destroying themselves and the nations they lead.
As mental health professionals we feel a desperate duty to warn our fellow citizens of this imminent catastrophic public danger before it’s too late.
https://www.psychopac.org/open-letter/
If this runs, every single person who signed onto this should have their license pulled. How do you diagnose someone you've never met? As matter of fact some of the DUmmies who were trying to sound the alarm on Biden before he was pulled (kicking and screaming) from the democrat ticket, were warned that no one could make any diagnoses or even assumptions about Biden because they had not even met Biden.
The DUmmies who were sounding the alarm were mostly removed from DU.
This kind of stuff has to stop. This is what is causing people to shoot at a presidential candidate! The shooters think they are doing God's work.
KC
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"51 intelligence experts"...
No one believes their shit anymore.
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"51 intelligence experts"...
No one believes their shit anymore.
Yup.
KC
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"51 intelligence experts"...
No one believes their shit anymore.
That was exactly my thought. If fact, every time they mention something like that or "16 nobel laureate economists", they peg out my BS meter.
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The fact that they have stooped this low is disturbing. They are taking a scorched earth approach with dangerous rhetoric that will only incite violence.
It’s really scary how desperate they are. :thatsright:
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Reminds me of the 51 "experts" that said the hunter laptop story was fake. :fuelfire:
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IMHO, the left and now Kamala are making a grave mistake by pandering to the PMSNBC audience and NOT the American public.
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I know DU-folk will :jerkit: :jerkit: :jerkit: :jerkit: :jerkit: to this wall of text, but the group's name tells me all I need to know about its members' ethics-surrogate, Anti-Psychopath Political Action Committee.
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His first term proves that none of this is true.
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Reminds me of the 51 "experts" that said the hunter laptop story was fake. :fuelfire:
I'm still waiting to hear from the 57 OB-GYNs that can confirm that Mike Robinson is a biological female. :popcorn:
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The website of one of the (possible) signatories.
https://therapist.com/clinician/dawn-riggs-91434/
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A review of possibly another
https://www.healthgrades.com/physician/dr-sylvia-flescher-x79g6
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How many of these "mental health professionals" are janitors or receptionists for a psycho-chiatrist? :rotf: :tongue:
There's a reason psychiatrists and psychologists are not highly esteemed by the general public.
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The website of one of the (possible) signatories.
https://therapist.com/clinician/dawn-riggs-91434/
:mental:
A review of possibly another
https://www.healthgrades.com/physician/dr-sylvia-flescher-x79g6
Did they provide p@#$y hat crochet patterns to patients in January 2017?
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Signed by mental health professionals, but reads just like any other anti-Trump writing.
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I know DU-folk will :jerkit: :jerkit: :jerkit: :jerkit: :jerkit: to this wall of text, but the group's name tells me all I need to know about its members' ethics-surrogate, Anti-Psychopath Political Action Committee.
So is this group the sworn enemy of the "Pro-Psychopath Political Action Committee" ?
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IMHO, the left and now Kamala are making a grave mistake by pandering to the PMSNBC audience and NOT the American public.
Yep! They keep appealing to the same kooks that are going to vote for them anyway. Makes no sense.
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“from George Conway’s PAC”
That explains it.
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"51 intelligence experts"...
No one believes their shit anymore.
Didn't they have a bunch of so-called experts say that the laptop was all Russian disinformation made to damage SloeJo?
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Four out of five dentists say you can go **** yourself, DUmmy.
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How many of these "mental health professionals" are janitors or receptionists for a psycho-chiatrist? :rotf: :tongue:
There's a reason psychiatrists and psychologists are not highly esteemed by the general public.
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The duck is fine he’s quacking in Yiddish. :-) :-) :-)
:cheersmate: