Trump is a narcissistic psychopath, period. The media cannot say this....

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12. Diagnosis paralysis

My parents experienced "diagnosis paralysis" with respect to my younger brother, who is bipolar paranoid schizophrenic with delusions.

Prior to having a diagnosis, they tried everything, reasoning with him, making rules only to have him break after he'd complied just long enough, etc. They knew he was crazy but were caught in a trap of their own making -- they felt they had to keep the door open to the possibility that he was sane after all, so they couldn't take any action, even mentally, to move forward. They were trapped trying to find an explanation for his actions. And he would never voluntarily submit to a psychiatric evaluation for them to tell us what the actual diagnosis was.

Well eventually we did figure out a way, and when they gave us the official diagnosis, it was a huge relief. Finally, we had permission to treat him as mentally ill. That allowed huge progress for all of us in so many ways.


Similarly for Donnie. The nation has been caught in the trap of trying to deal with him, negotiate, make allowances for, etc., as if he were sane, as if we had to listen to every tweet, as if we had to allow ourselves to get sucked into his wacky world.

If ever we had a proper diagnosis, the nation would be relieved. We could finally mostly ignore his tweets and just say, hey, that's just the rankings of a crazy old man.

We all know this to be true, but we collectively feel we can't really act that way without an official diagnosis.

Or maybe we just need a kid to say the emperor has no clothes. It's obvious, but until we somehow get permission to treat it as obvious, we're trapped....