… Disorders, with its at-least-one-guaranteed-billable-disorder-for-every-American (put DSM in my search engine), but she has never denied that in cases of grossly obvious and damaging psychological imbalance it can provide clarity about characteristics and treatment.
Representative Karen Bass, a politician with a background in health care, has launched a petition calling on “mental health professionals to publicly urge the Republican party to conduct an evaluation of Mr. Trump and officially determine if he is mentally fit to lead the free world.” Citing in detail the DSM’s criteria for Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Bass suggests that Trump seems indeed to have been so debilitated by NPD that he should be replaced at the top of the ticket — pending professional confirmation of his condition.
August 3rd, 2016 at 10:48PM
In addition to all the comments on his egregious narcissism, his scattered, hyperkinetic thought process makes one wonder about adult ADHD.
August 4th, 2016 at 8:40AM
could just be an asshole, sadly for your purposes here the “test” for these disorders/criteria is more about how it effects the life of the person being evaluated than how it effects the people around them at least for adults, and as far as I know you can’t be found incompetent for a personality disorder yet, if yer a successful manipulator of people in a society that rewards such than you are normal…
August 4th, 2016 at 9:06AM
dmf: Yes. Recall the “article in CFA Magazine by Sherree DeCovney claiming that 10 percent (at least) of the people in the financial services industry are psychopaths.”
August 4th, 2016 at 9:45AM
yeah tho those kinds of stats strike me as of a genre with those that report all the people worn out by our dying economy/nation-state as being mentally-ill/depressed/etc, the sad truth is that many able bodied folks are easily bent/socialized into these kinds of behaviors, for some context see Robert Sapolsky’s work on top-primate stress in our near cousins. All too easy to conflate social “ills” with actual disorders.
nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/07/masha-gessen-problem-with-media.html
August 4th, 2016 at 10:45AM
apples, trees…
https://bobbiblogger.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/trump.jpg
August 4th, 2016 at 11:22AM
Ugh.
August 4th, 2016 at 4:36PM
Back in the 1980s, a local sheriff refused to execute foreclosure orders. The government’s attorney publicly mentioned referring the sheriff for a psychiatric eval. Not long after, the sheriff successfully defended himself against public racketeering charges. Then sheriff and later Congressman James Traficant enjoyed a, er, ah, colorful career.
My point? Trump is an extremely shrewd sumbitch who learns. I’d expect to see him play the victim card, portraying himself as the people’s voice being whomped on by K street and Wall Street wire-pullers.
August 4th, 2016 at 4:44PM
JackOH: Traficant! There’s a name that takes me back.
August 4th, 2016 at 6:01PM
Jimbo had good points. He was convicted of taking a bribe (among other charges) from the very same Mr. Big who now disports himself as chair of our Podunk Tech-affiliated foundation. I wish I were making this stuff up:):)
August 5th, 2016 at 1:37AM
You know UD, questioning the effectiveness of the DNSM is a symptom of mental disease, as is the use of ellipses at the end of sentences…
August 5th, 2016 at 7:10AM
Uh oh…
August 5th, 2016 at 11:07AM
http://www.theonion.com/article/dsm-5-updated-accommodate-man-who-legitimately-bei-53401
August 5th, 2016 at 11:16AM
Big Pharma can help. Voice-over: “Shkrelium is not for everybody. Talk to your doctor before taking Shkrelium. Side effects include a big gaping hole where your brain used to be.” (Cue Beavis and Butthead snicker.)
August 5th, 2016 at 12:24PM
Jack, the best are the cialis commercials, the ones where everyone ends up nude in an outdoor bathtub. One of them had a black couple. I’m from San Francisco. I KNOW that no Bay Area brother is gonna end up naked, sitting in a bathtub on a hill overlooking the Embarcadero Freeway. He’d give up sex prior to that. Hell, I’d give up sex if that crap made that insane….
August 5th, 2016 at 2:16PM
Profane: efforts to appease the moon… Why had I never seen this before? Thank you for the link!
August 5th, 2016 at 7:46PM
Charlie-LOL. I see those ads. Dude’s in good physical trim, lives upmarket in a decent ‘hood, and his wife’s out of a Bond movie. This guy’s gotta problem? Okay, blood flow, right. Maybe we can medicalize adolescent energies, too, into the right channels. Wait, we already do that. Ivan Illich has a good take on the medicalization of everything in “Medical Nemesis”, if you can find a copy.
August 5th, 2016 at 9:50PM
Do they have a drug to cure typos? I need me some of that….