Odd to have to say that, but also necessary to remember in our effort to combat incoherence, in this boiling Age of Incoherence we are living in.
Speaking of words with clear meaning, here are some, from psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee, from The Independent (no mass media news source in the US is seriously, directly covering the issue of Trump’s clear, dangerously escalating insanity), that should be heeded, goddamn it…
Many psychiatrists adhere to the “Goldwater Rule,” which discourages diagnosing public figures without personally examining them…. While this wasn’t a diagnosis per se, they [Dr. Lee and 35 other experts in dangerous mental health issues] based their conclusions, they say, on “voluminous evidence from the historical record of the president’s bizarre and impulsive behaviour, rambling digressions, factual confusions, unexplained sudden changes of course in strategic matters, both national and international, and his deeply impaired judgement.”
An accompanying statement concluded that the most worrisome examples were his outbursts of what was termed “extreme, seemingly uncontrollable rage,” such as his multiple threats to destroy Iran. Lee told The Independent that Trump’s grandiose, wishful fantasies and images “are signs of a psychotic spiral…. A desperate attempt to counteract the total helplessness one feels when one is losing one’s mind”….
Since the statement was released, she noted in her Substack that Trump has “exhibited even more signs of grandiosity, e.g., posting images of himself on social media shaking hands with God, acting like Jesus and dressing as a pope. And he has continued nocturnal bingeing on social media posts that are filled with accusations of multiple conspiracies against him, as often as 150 times a night.”
While she maintains she is not diagnosing Trump as she would a patient, Lee says she has a positive obligation to improve society and better public health, which includes acting “if anyone is a danger to society—in fact, danger for psychiatric reasons is a mandated duty for which we could be held legally liable for not responding.”
From a psychiatric standpoint, what does a pattern of sleeping four hours or fewer do to executive function, impulse control and the ability to make life-or-death decisions? Lee says that whether caused by anxiety, depression, mania, stress or substances, lack of sleep will worsen any diminished capacity in a person, including executive function, impulse control and critical decision-making.
“We know that he appears to fall asleep during important functions…. So, the fateful, life-or-death decisions that are handed to him, or that he takes upon himself despite not being equipped to handle them, imperil our nation and all the globe”….
Perfectly normal, and much, much better than “Sleepy Joe” and his pathetic AUTOPEN! Best president ever, bigger than Elvis, bigger than the Beatles, bigger than the Pope, bigger than Jesus Christ. And don’t even think of calling him Dozy Don, you Trump Derangement Syndrome suffering mother cuckers.
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