Trials and triggers: Psychiatrists warn Trump's psychosis will grow "as he becomes more desperate"

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12. I didn't see the word "psychosis" used once in that story

Other than in the headline.

The use of the word “Psychosis” appears to be just clickbait headline by Salon.

Psychosis:

People with psychosis typically experience delusions (false beliefs, for example, that people on television are sending them special messages or that others are trying to hurt them) and hallucinations (seeing or hearing things that others do not, such as hearing voices telling them to do something or criticizing them).

https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/understanding-psychosis#:~:text=People%20with%20psychosis%20typically%20experience,do%20something%20or%20criticizing%20them).

If Trump were truly psychotic, he could be declared incompetent to stand trial. His kids could take the family business away from him.

As a retired psychotherapist, I share the opinion of many other mental health professionals that Trump’s 50 years of observable public behaviour seems to pretty clearly point to Narcissistic Personality Disorder, or perhaps Anti-Social Personality Disorder (can’t be both). He may have other mental illness undiagnosable from public behaviour, but psychosis isn’t likely one of them. Psychosis is difficult to mask, especially in public. Nixon was well known for his extreme paranoia, and yet he wasn’t psychotic either.

The media doesn’t need to resort to inaccurate diagnostic hyperbole to make the point that Trump is unstable, unwell, and dangerous to the country should he ever be president again.