It’s easy to diagnose from a distance. Many on the Right called Obama a narcissist and now many on the Left are doing the same. But ya know what, sometimes as POTUS ya gotta be a jerk because no one is gonna agree 100% with your actions. But as POTUS ya gotta have some thick skin
Hell, I regularly call myself an a**hole, depending on the situation i most certainly am. Just ask my mom -PB/TK
Psychiatrist who coined ‘narcissistic personality disorder’ says Trump’s not mentally ill — just a jerk – DAVID FERGUSON 15 FEB 2017 AT 19:02 ET
Psychiatric professionals are at odds about a decades-old regulation in their profession that forbids them from speaking out about the mental health of public officials.
Scientific American reported Wednesday on a letter to the New York Times signed by 35 U.S. psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers who are flouting that regulation to speak out about Pres. Donald Trump, who they — along with some of the president’s colleagues in the Senate — believe is dangerously unwell.
Meanwhile, the psychiatrist who wrote the diagnostic criteria for narcissistic personality disorder wrote a letter of his own to the Times urging his colleagues not to mistake Trump’s “grandiosity, self-absorption and lack of empathy” for mental illness.
“Bad behavior is rarely a sign of mental illness,” Frances cautioned, “and the mentally ill behave badly only rarely.”
In their letter, the 35 psychiatric professionals said, “Mr. Trump’s speech and actions demonstrate an inability to tolerate views different from his own, leading to rage reactions. His words and behavior suggest a profound inability to empathize. Individuals with these traits distort reality to suit their psychological state, attacking facts and those who convey them (journalists, scientists).”
Continue to rawstory.com article: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/psychiatrist-who-coined-narcissistic-personality-disorder-says-trumps-not-mentally-ill-just-a-jerk/
