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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump is going through a dangerous mental crisis
Goddess help us all.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/11/trump-is-going-through-a-mental-health-crisis-that-makes-his-judgment-even-more-impulsive-and-catastrophic-psychologist/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
cilla4progress
(24,726 posts)You can only get away with this shit for so long.
What did he/they expect?
Pathological.
onecaliberal
(32,829 posts)Mike 03
(16,616 posts)Yes, but in ways that I think are even more ominous than when we spoke almost a year ago. Trump is a malignant narcissist. Erich Fromm, the noted psychoanalyst who studied Nazi Germany and the person who introduced the diagnosis of narcissism explained that in such personalities their grandiosity, their narcissism, their paranoia, conspiracy theories, sociopathy, criminal behavior and sadism all go into overdrive when they get power. Those traits are also inflamed when a narcissist is challenged or attacked.
And there is a feedback loop as well, where because theyre gaining power which inflames their narcissism and their paranoia and their freedom to act on their criminal impulses of course that means there will be opposition and resistance to them. Narcissists like Donald Trump then demonize and try to brutalize and invalidate anyone who does not kiss his ring. Trump has systematically eliminated every single guardrail on his power and behavior in the White House.
There is literally nobody, not one person, who can tell him no right now, intervene against him. But there is another element to Trumps dangerous behavior that we should be paying very close attention to. I believe that Donald Trump is having a hypomanic episode.
Many reporters and journalists have described Trumps recent behavior as manic. Concerned observers highlight Trumps tweets, which have greatly increased in number.
A hypomanic episode is not the same as a manic episode. Manic is only partially accurate in describing Donald Trump because when somebody is manic, they think theyre Jesus Christ, which means they are psychotic and usually end up in the psychiatric hospital. But when someones hypomanic, they become more agitated, more energized, more impulsive. They act out more aggressively with poorer judgment. A hypomanic person does not listen to anybody. They do not delay their activity. They do not accept feedback from anybody else.
cilla4progress
(24,726 posts)is fitting...
I mean this seriously: I think drumpf's mania, pathology is such that he would enjoy watching suffering, torture, murder. Not participating, of course.
Just a hunch.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)we might find that some of his cruelest policies were undertaken right after he suffered some kind of (perceived) humiliation, betrayal or leak. That's why I'm holding my breath right now--all the news is bad for him, and that usually means "punishment" for the United States, especially Democratic policies or anything Obama accomplished.
FM123
(10,053 posts)about some disgruntled employee/customer/family member etc that totally loses it- out in broad daylight for everybody to see - that is going to be trump any day now.
onecaliberal
(32,829 posts)FM123
(10,053 posts)Mike 03
(16,616 posts)When Trump looks in the mirror, what do you think he sees?
I think that Donald Trump sees a god. I believe that Donald Trump sees someone whos the greatest president in history.
All that boasting seems to suggest he is very weak inside.
Absolutely. Donald Trump is an empty shell of a human being. That is what he is manically trying to overcome with all this grandiosity. Deep down inside, Donald Trump is a very empty and sad person. His attempt to compensate is that Donald Trump is going to beat the world to death to prove that he really is triumphant. I believe that Donald Trumps whole life is about a battle to be dominant and to crush his enemies. That is what gets him off. It excites him. The problem with people like Donald Trump is that there is no limit to the amount of destruction they are willing to create.
onecaliberal
(32,829 posts)yonder
(9,663 posts)"Well, in this case Donald Trump is the crisis. He is the 3 a.m. phone call."
onecaliberal
(32,829 posts)Quixote1818
(28,929 posts)onecaliberal
(32,829 posts)Its scary.