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In reply to the discussion: Katy Tur, writes in her book, how trump scarily threatened her in 2015 [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Having the power to act it out to the degree he has so far was something new.
This reminds me of something I've wondered about for some time now:
How is it that over 200,000,000 grown Americans have now watched a man with a very obvious and bad personality disorder act it out daily as president of the United States! but most still don't know personality disorders are very real and very common? The word narcissism is tossed in here and there, but never any real discussion of what studies have found.
What should now be an important advance in awareness has been rejected so that most are as ignorant as pre-Trump, and that was already strange given how common personality disorders are. WHY? HOW is this even possible?
Is it a manifestation of this era's anti-science and anti-expertise pathology? Does some of it stem from conflict between this reality and the righteousness of religion's punishments?
Psychiatrists diagnose and mostly fail to treat personality disorders every day, for god's sake. Mental health, social work professionals, and courts try to rescue their victims every day.
Before long a half million and more Americans will be dead; shouldn't the entire nation have already wondered if Trump's egging his mobs on to spread the disease could have anything to do with his rage at his crowd size being smaller than Obama's, and the constant failures since of Americans to give him the adulation he wants?