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18. I'm not sure it's a mental illness, Malaise. I am aware of people who appear

Thu Oct 26, 2023, 11:46 AM

Oct 2023

quite normal in their everyday lives but seem to have lost all judgment and ability to think logically and critically when it comes to Trump. What I do notice about these people is that they have very little interest in reading anything but crap fiction and have very little interest in current events outside of their own small world. Many of these people could smell a fake a mile away in their own lives but don't see anything wrong with Trump. I wouldn't call this a "mental illness". I'd call it "mental incompetence" and the loss of critical judgment.

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Serious question [View all] malaise Oct 2023 OP

They certainly are delusional Walleye Oct 2023 #1

There is no clinical definition of insanity. It is a legal concept, not a medical one. WhiskeyGrinder Oct 2023 #3

OK, what do they call the inability to distinguish fantasy from reality? Walleye Oct 2023 #4

Who's they? WhiskeyGrinder Oct 2023 #5

Psychiatrists, or the legal definition of insanity Walleye Oct 2023 #6

Psychiatrists would use terms found in the DSM to describe and diagnose what someone was experiencing. WhiskeyGrinder Oct 2023 #7

I stand corrected. Walleye Oct 2023 #8

No, and making these kinds of conflations is dangerous to people with mental illness, who are some of the most WhiskeyGrinder Oct 2023 #2

This. Not only sarisataka Oct 2023 #14

Anyone who supports the NAZI is nuts. Kid Berwyn Oct 2023 #9

i think we need a way better definition of mentally ill. mopinko Oct 2023 #10

Hate can be mental illness czarjak Oct 2023 #11

No Yonnie3 Oct 2023 #12

It's a cult. usonian Oct 2023 #13

No, not mentally ill. It is a denial of reality to think only insane people are hard right Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2023 #15

I hear you n/t malaise Oct 2023 #19

What are cult members considered? MyMission Oct 2023 #16

I call them "Surface" people. chouchou Oct 2023 #17

I'm not sure it's a mental illness, Malaise. I am aware of people who appear Raven Oct 2023 #18

no, but I think all MAGAts are white supremacist racists Stardust Mirror Oct 2023 #20