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I think Donald is a pathological liar, among other things. However, I do think dementia may be playing a role. He has gotten away with unethical and morally wrongs his whole life, and I imagine he thinks he is way above any law.
But, I also think he is crazy as a fox, a con man and we have been conned, beyond belief. JMO.
Uh, psychiatrists ARE medical doctors by definition.
Medical doctors who don't know anything. And don't have to know anything. They just listen to people talk for 30 minutes and then give them SSRIs. Or risperidal. Or both. It's a scam.
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When someone constantly shows their personality so visibly and publicly in all forms of media, I would expect it's not difficult to gain some perspective on their mental status and offer an opinion as such, especially if you're a professional in such a field.
Any psychiatrist worth his/her salt would know that people tend to show a public persona that is completely different from their private persona. In fact, a person doesn't have to be a shrink to know this, if they actually pay attention to those around them. No doubt you also have a public vs private persona, whether you realize it or not.
When Trump first announced he was running I had done a lot of research on him. In my research, through different media stories, I had found people making comments that when he is behind the cameras he has a completely different persona, where he is calm, collected, asks for advice and often takes it, etc. People in business, politics, etc., have to sell themselves .. Trump just takes it up a notch, big deal.
Here is an article with many people discussing how he is behind the scenes ... and yes, the article is actually from WaPo, surprisingly. Though to be fair I do think WaPo meant this as a hit piece, their attempted hit falls flat since others, who have known Trump, had said similar things as these donors had said. https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...75e_story.html
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But then again, I'm not a psychiatrist. You're more than entitled to take anyone's opinion, professional or not with a grain of salt, but make sure you hold all sides of the argument to the same standard.
Shrinks who make a public statement about someone who they had never met, spoken with, treated, etc., and basing it on just a public persona should have their medical licenses taken from them.
Psychiatrists ARE medical doctors. They DO have to make it through medical school.
What kinds of grades did you have in school? Did you make it through college?
In fact it is the toughest of all the disciplines. As a cardiologist or an gastroenterologist, you have measurable information upon which to make your diagnosis or decide on a course of treatment. For mental illness it is far harder; we only have a rudimentary understanding of how the brain works and how brain chemistry affects mental illness.
He has not directly examined Donald Trump, taken a medical history, nor has he been consulted as a physician by Trump to evaluate him.
It is certainly not surprising that a liberal would ignore his medical duties and obligations and engage in slanderous activities- it is what liberals do.
It's what they do. First and foremost, though, they project their own pathologies onto others. But their religion is godless and psychopathic, and they are fanatic.
The countless psychiatrists and psychologists who have laid this "diagnosis" on Trump--none of whom has ever gotten close to him, much less examined him, as you state--and every one of them would have their license challenged by their professional organization...IF their organizations were not also completely in the tank for any NeverTrumper they happen to bump into on the street. Completely corrupt, burned up by politics and professional code of ethics is out the window.
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Psychiatrists ARE medical doctors. They DO have to make it through medical school.
This is true. But, how many doctors will make a diagnosis about a patient without seeing the patient first? Psychiatrists are no different, they need to actually see a person, in real life and not just what is floating around on the web, before making a diagnosis.
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