"DAMMIT It's Not Alzheimer's! Here's Why It's A Far Worse Nightmare Scenario"

[summer_in_TX]

Frank George, a former Senior Fellow at the NIH who taught university-level courses on topics like on narcissism, mental health disorders, neuroscience and addictions, now writes a newsletter on Substack called The Gaslight Report. He ended up there after Trump's budget bs got him and his course on Pathological Narcissism dumped, according to the article.

George planned a different post, until someone with a far bigger platform posted an article that's gone viral that he strongly objects to caused his writing plans to change.

Because someone with a big audience pushed a post claiming Trump is on an Alzheimer’s-specific infusion drug, linking it to everything from bruises to sleepiness to “confusion.” Sadly, the post is spreading.

Well, circumstantial click bait evidence doesn’t hold up in court.

and

A serious symptom analysis quickly debunks Alzheimer’s.

Trump’s symptoms are consistent with another, less common but more disruptive and, in his case horrific, disorder — Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD), especially the behavioral variant (bvFTD). This is the variant characterized most strongly by severe changes in personality and behavior.

✅ A HUGE and Critical Distinction

This isn’t guesswork pulled from thin air. This is the conclusion drawn from analysies by hundreds of clinical and research experts in mental health.

Interesting article and makes sense. That leaning forward posture of Trump's is highly indicative of Frontotemporal Dementia.
Read more here: https://frankgeorge8675309.substack.com/p/dammit-its-not-alzheimers-heres-why-c9f

[elleng]

1. Frontotemporal Dementia

a group of brain disorders causing nerve cell loss in the frontal and temporal lobes, leading to significant changes in personality, behavior, and language, often starting younger (45-65) than other dementias. Symptoms include apathy, disinhibition, impulsivity, loss of empathy, or difficulty speaking/understanding words, with common types being behavioral variant (bvFTD) and primary progressive aphasia (PPA). FTD is progressive, affecting areas controlling emotion, judgment, and communication.

[summer_in_TX]

2. Combined with his malignant personality disorder, it's bad.

Explains a lot.

[bdamomma]

13. I'm not

a medical professional but this sounds very on target. It makes him more Unfit to hold office. Putin knew it all along.

[LudwigPastorius]

3. But, has his personality REALLY changed all that much over the past 10 years?

He's always been a word-salad-spewing, narcissistic, hate monger. Now, he's just more so.

All of these folks positing that Trump has a chronic cognitive disease seem to be going on the assumption that his current behavior came out of nowhere.

[Skittles]

8. yup

and last time, he had HANDLERS, now he has surrounded himself with TRUMP WHORES........is is a logical "'progression"

[dalton99a]

15. +1. No more guardrails. Zero accountability. Absolute immunity. Unlimited power.

[tanyev]

10. Hell, he's been an egomaniacal POS his entire adult life, and even before.

The only thing that’s changed is he seems increasingly unable to filter his language and behavior to the sleazy approximation of what he thinks is charm.

[ZZenith]

4. I harbor this fantasy scenario wherein he DOES have a complete change of personality

and becomes FDR on steroids.

A boy can dream, can’t he?

[LudwigPastorius]

6. I can't vouch for the accuracy of Google AI, but...

it says there has never been an instance in medical literature of a narcissist or sociopath suddenly gaining empathy.

Sorry.

[niyad]

5. Changes in behaviour??? You mean, even more repellant and ugly,

hateful, vituperative, vulgar, and vicious?

Does difference in degree, not kind, count as "changes" ?

[TexLaProgressive]

7. My wife (rip) said

”People don’t change. They just become more of who they are really are.”

[TBA]

9. This makes sense.

He was always dismissive of reporters he doesn't like but now he had devolved to outright name calling.

[indusurb]

11. Does it really matter at this point what the diagnosis is?

First of all we're not going to find out until after he is dead and gone, perhaps long after. Second, no matter the case, be it Alheimer's, FTD, mini strokes, or whatever, the takeaway is the same, the man's cheese has pretty much slid off his cracker and he is no longer fit for office(not that I ever thought he was, but speaking medically he's not fit). And given that he's getting regular IV treatments, MRI's, etc. I'd say he's not much longer for this world. His handlers are trying to flog him through to the midterms, and after that I bet he will be gone. Vance will be Veep, and if Thiel and his fellow oligarchs have anything to say about it, he'll have at least two terms(he's the perfect patsy/puppet for them).

[BannonsLiver]

12. Is it fatal more quickly than ALZ?

That’s really the only thing that matters.

[Mz Pip]

14. So what's the timeline here?

Weeks? Months? Years? It’s pretty obvious there are people who know about this and are covering it up, but at some point, that won’t be possible short of his completely disappearing from the world stage.

He won’t get better, it’s just a question of how fast he gets worse.