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The Debate About Donald Trump's Mental Health Isn't Going To Go Away - Shared from /imzyians_against_trum
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The Debate About Donald Trump's Mental Health Isn't Going To Go Away - Shared from /imzyians_against_trum
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http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/2/10/14551890/trump-mental-health-narcissistic-personality
“Everyone has a personality,” Frances says. “It’s not wrong to have a personality; it’s not mentally ill to have a personality. It’s only a disorder when it causes extreme distress, suffering, and impairment.”
Trump’s willingness to lie and endless self-promotion are traits that have, so far, worked out largely to his advantage. He’s president of the United States, after all.
"There is a major flaw in Frances' reasoning, as pointed out by Science Of Us: he only differentiates Trump from mentally ill people because of his seeming lack of outward distress. Most mentally ill people are nice, surely, but some are not—do Trump's actions still fit the basic understanding of mental illness? “We don’t know if he suffers from distress,” Wendy Behary, a therapist who works with clients with Narcissistic Personality Disorder, told them responding to Frances’s letter. “We don’t know what happens behind the curtain. We don’t know if there is a vulnerability and fear that comes out in his darkest moments.”
I'm less concerned about if he's "troubled" or not. I'm more worried about what falls between the cracks while he's tweeting at 6am. We should all be.