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Trump's Serious Mental Disorders & Illnesses: Sadistic Sociopath, Psychopath, Paranoid Pathological Liar, Megalomaniac, Egomaniac, Histrionic + Cognitive Decline & Possible Dementia & Neurosyphilis

Updated: Oct 6




Leading Experts believe Donald Trump has several different and overlapping serious mental disorders & illnesses. First I will go over the basic definition of each disorder that fits Donald Trump's conditions and behavior. Then experts in the field will provide the evidence, connecting the conditions to Trump.



Yes, a person can be both a sociopath and a psychopath.


Sociopath


An unofficial term for someone with antisocial personality disorder (ASPD).


If you have ASPD, you may act in ways that go against socially acceptable standards. You may break laws and feel little or no guilt when you do something wrong. Sociopaths often use charm and deceit to get what they want.


If you have this personality disorder, you might do things like:


  • Lie to or trick others for personal gain

  • Commit crimes

  • Disregard rules or the safety of others

  • Act impulsively or aggressively

  • Act coldly toward others

  • Lie about both big and little things

  • Have few, if any, close relationships

  • Have trouble keeping a job

  • Take unneeded risks



Psychopath


A set of personality traits that can overlap with ASPD, but is not an official diagnosis. Around 25%-30% of people with ASPD also have psychopathy. Psychopaths tend to have more severe traits than people with ASPD. Psychopaths are often very charming, which helps them deceive others. To see if someone has psychopathy, a trained health care provider will commonly use something called the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised. That’s a list of 20 characteristics.

People with psychopathy make up about 1% of the general population, but 15%-25% of people in U.S. prisons. Research shows that those with psychopathy are 15-25 times more likely to break the law and end up in prison than others.




Malignant Narcissist


The malignant narcissist is a delusional megalomaniac with psychopathic and sadistic traits. It is a dangerous mix.


A malignant narcissist is an abusive person who finds pleasure in lying, manipulating, and using other people in order to get the things that they want.


Narcissism is a personality trait recognized throughout history, but awareness of narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) and narcissistic personality in popular culture has grown. As a result, people may wonder whether they are dealing with someone who is selfish, thoughtless, or overly power-seeking—or if they are dealing with someone with a true disorder.





Sadistic Personality Disorder: gaining pleasure from seeing others undergo pain or discomfort. It’s the way in which individuals not only display, but also take enjoyment in committing sadistic acts. Individuals possessing sadistic personality display recurrent cruel behavior and aggression.



Megalomania


Megalomania is a mental illness that causes people to have delusions of grandeur and feel like they are more powerful and important than they actually are. People with megalomania may also have an obsession with wealth and power, and a desire to do extravagant things. Some symptoms include: Exaggerating their virtues, Never seeing their faults, Inflated self-esteem, and Overestimating their powers and beliefs.

Egomania


Egomania is a psychiatric term used to describe excessive preoccupation with one's ego, identity or self and applies the same preoccupation to anyone who follows one’s own ungoverned impulses, is possessed by delusions of personal greatness & grandeur and feels a lack of appreciation. Someone suffering from this extreme egocentric focus is an egomaniac. Egomania as a condition, while not a classified personality disorder, is considered psychologically abnormal. People with egomania may have fantasies about their own brilliance or beauty, envy others, and have a need to be adored or feared. Synonyms of egomaniac include egotist, boaster, swaggerer, and self-seeker.



What Is Pathological Lying?


Pathological lying (also known as pseudologia fantastica or phantastica) has been associated with Munchausen syndrome since 1951.



Lying is a common behavior in humans. When someone tells a lie, there's often a clear reason they do so. Lying may be used as a tool to achieve a goal.


But pathological lying is often done without any reason and regardless of consequences. These lies are extensive and elaborate, and the urge to tell them is compulsive. Pathological liars often make up stories, even if that causes them harm. They may lose jobs and ruin relationships because of their lying.‌


It isn’t clear whether pathological liars understand that what they say isn’t true. Some people believe the things they say, even when those things are clearly false. Other pathological liars will admit that they've been lying only when their lies are proved false.



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Histrionic Personality Disorder (HPD)


Histrionic personality disorder (HPD) is a chronic, enduring psychiatric condition characterized by a consistent pattern of pervasive attention-seeking behaviors and exaggerated emotional displays. This condition typically emerges in late adolescence or early adulthood. Individuals with HPD are often described as narcissistic, self-indulgent, flirtatious, dramatic, and extroverted. They may feel undervalued when not in the spotlight, leading to a persistent need for validation. This condition is life-long and treatment-resistant, with psychotherapy being the primary but often ineffective treatment. Diagnosis requires longitudinal observation due to the overlap with other psychiatric conditions.




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What is Neurosyphilis?


If syphilis goes untreated, the affected person is at risk of developing neurosyphilis. This is an infection of the nervous system, specifically of the brain and the spinal cord. Neurosyphilis tends to develop about 10 to 20 years after the initial infection with the bacterium.


General Paresis Neurosyphilis


This form can appear decades after you’re infected with syphilis, and it can cause lasting issues.


If it develops, general paresis may lead to several health problems, including:


  • paranoia

  • mood swings

  • emotional troubles

  • personality changes

  • weakened muscles

  • a loss of the ability to utilize language


It can also progress to dementia.





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We have to stop this psychopath.

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Mary Trump


A niece of former US president Donald Trump. Mary Trump is a renowned psychologist and one of the most accomplished American authors of the 21st century. Mary L. Trump holds a PhD from the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies and taught graduate courses in trauma, psychopathology, and developmental psychology.








This dynastic history by a trained psychologist authoritatively diagnoses Trump’s sickness: Donald, as his niece Mary calls him with casual contempt, is a damaged individual, emotionally stunted and morally warped by his upbringing, who has infected the US with his own “toxic positivity”. Aware of her wicked uncle’s vindictiveness, Mary says that if he’s re-elected she intends to apply for a British passport. Let’s hope she will not be driven to such an act of reckless desperation.


The premise: The president's niece, a clinical psychologist, airs her family's dirty laundry — and her professional opinions on her uncle.


The scoop: The younger Trump diagnoses the POTUS with narcissistic personality disorder and also says he once complimented her breasts when she was younger.



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"The thing is, when you actually think about it, it's not funny. Given what's at stake, it's more like the opposite, like the first sign of the collapse of the United States as a global superpower. Twenty years from now, when we're all living like prehistory hominids and hunting rats with sticks, we'll probably look back at this moment as the beginning of the end."


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Since the start of Donald Trump’s presidential run, one question has quietly but urgently permeated the observations of concerned citizens: What is wrong with him? Constrained by the American Psychiatric Association’s “Goldwater rule,” which inhibits mental health professionals from diagnosing public figures they have not personally examined, many of those qualified to answer this question have shied away from discussing the issue at all. The public has thus been left to wonder whether he is mad, bad, or both.


In THE DANGEROUS CASE OF DONALD TRUMP, twenty-seven psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental health experts argue that, in Mr. Trump’s case, their moral and civic “duty to warn” America supersedes professional neutrality. They then explore Trump’s symptoms and potentially relevant diagnoses to find a complex, if also dangerously mad, man.


Philip Zimbardo and Rosemary Sword, for instance, explain Trump’s impulsivity in terms of “unbridled and extreme present hedonism.” Craig Malkin writes on pathological narcissism and politics as a lethal mix. Gail Sheehy, on a lack of trust that exceeds paranoia. Lance Dodes, on sociopathy. Robert Jay Lifton, on the “malignant normality” that can set in everyday life if psychiatrists do not speak up.


His madness is catching, too. From the trauma people have experienced under the Trump administration to the cult-like characteristics of his followers, he has created unprecedented mental health consequences across our nation and beyond.


No president in the history of the United States has inspired more alarm and confusion than Donald Trump. As questions and concerns about his decisions, behavior, and qualifications for office have multiplied, they point to one primary question: Does he pose a genuine threat to our country? The American Psychiatric Association's Goldwater Rule constrains psychiatrists from offering diagnoses on public figures who are not patients and who have not endorsed such statements. But in Trump on the Couch Clinical Professor of Psychiatry Justin A Frank invokes the moral responsibility that compels him to speak out and present a full portrait of a man who presents us with a clear and present danger.


Using observations gained from a close study of Trump's patterns of thought, action, and communication, Dr. Frank uncovers a personality riddled with mental health issues. His analysis is filled with important revelations about our nation's leader, including disturbing insights into his childhood, his family, his business dealings, and his unusual relationship with alternative facts, including how


  • The absence of a strong maternal force during childhood has led to Trump's remarkable lack of empathy and disregard for women's boundaries;

  • His compulsion to polarize America has grown out of the way he perceives the world as full of deceitful and destructive persecutors;

  • His inability to tolerate the pain of frustration has triggered his belief that omnipotence will finally remove it;

  • His idiosyncratic use of language points to larger issues than even his tweets might suggest.


With our country itself at stake, Dr. Frank calls attention to the underlying narcissism, misogyny, deception, and racism that drive the President who endangers it. A penetrating examination of how we as a nation got here and, more important, where we are going, Trump on the Couch sounds a call to action that we cannot ignore.



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Donald Trump is the leader of a new, hate-filled authoritarian movement. Nothing would be more harmful to the idea of the West and world peace than if he were to be elected president. George W. Bush's America would seem like a place of logic and reason in comparison.



During his campaign, Donald Trump has repeatedly flirted with violence. Crude political notions aside, he lacks the character to become president of the United States and represents a true danger to the entire world.





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