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14. Mental illness are treatable. Personality disorders generally are not

Sun Sep 18, 2016, 10:03 PM

Sep 2016

Not in a 70-year-old, at least. If Trump had a mental illness, he could take medication for it and could end up functioning within the normal range, or at worst, act what was formerly known as "eccentric."

But personality disorders are an entirely different animal. These people don't think there's anything wrong with them, despite their disturbed, ingrained personality traits. Someone who has Narcissistic Personality Disorder and/or Antisocial Personality Disorder can, and often do, leave destruction and ruin in their wake without any compunction at all.

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