[FRIAM] Is the new president mentally ill?

[Jochen Fromm]

What's the point of diagnosing him? Protest. Resistance. Revelation. Isn't it alarming enough that the country is sliding into an authoritarian state? It is even worse if the president is mentally ill. I have never participated in a demonstration, but if this would happen here, I would demonstrate every day I could afford. In a country with thousands of nuclear weapons an evil president can do much more harm than a good president can do good. He can ruin the whole world and tumble into the abyss, dragging the whole world with him.
-J.

-------- Original message --------From: Carter Charbonneau <zcarterc at gmail.com> Date: 1/11/17  17:10  (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Is the new president mentally ill? 
http://lesswrong.com/lw/2as/diseased_thinking_dissolving_questions_about/
Seriously, what's the point of diagnosing him?
On Jan 10, 2017 11:55 PM, "Jochen Fromm" <jofr at cas-group.net> wrote:
I posted this on Google+, since we have a lot of psychologists here you might be interested too?
Psychologists, therapists and mental health professionals seem to be fascinated and terrified alike by the new president who has not only become a brand, but is nothing but a brand: 

1. he seems to be a textbook case of a narcissistic personality disorder
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-greene/is-donald-trump-mentally_b_13693174.html

2. he was elected although he imitates the behavior of an massive Internet troll
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-embodied-mind/201701/unified-theory-trump

3. he displays a total lack of honesty and truth-telling
http://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/

All DSM-5 criteria of a narcissistic personality disorder seem to be fulfilled. Should we be worried? What do you think? He shows a clear need for instant retaliation if someone criticizes him, which is obviously some form a narcissistic rage. It is clearly more than a self-serving bias, and such a deep personality disorder is not harmless at all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-serving_bias

The problem is he is in a position where he can pull the strings now, as the commander in chief of the most powerful army. The US has about 2000 nuclear weapons on high alert, and there is a soldier with the nuclear football following the president at all times. What could go wrong?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_football
-Jochen



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