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Psychiatric diagnosis doesn’t begin to account for potential peril under Trump

February 18, 2017

RE (“Executive analysis, from afar”): The criteria for a mental disorder that psychiatrists use place strong weight on an individual’s internal reward system and on society’s external response to their behaviors: If these behaviors don’t cause the individual distress and impairment, and society allows the individual to be successful, then the behaviors are considered healthy. As Dr. Allen Frances says [‘Crazy like a fox’: Mental health experts try to get inside Trump’s mind].. https://www.statnews.com/2017/01/30/trump-mental-health/ of Donald Trump, “people trying to diagnose Trump as having a mental disorder are wrong.” Frances notes that Trump “apparently gets pleasure, not distress, from [activities such as late-night, angry tweets], and they made him president.”

But a mental disorder can severely distort an individual’s internal reward system, so that they may experience at least short-term pleasure in response to behaviors that ultimately may be destructive toward both themselves and their community. And when a society is itself sick — damaged, angry, and vulnerable — it may enable these behaviors, so that external checks also fail, and we may end up with disastrous legacies from individuals judged to be healthy.

Psychiatrists should explicitly acknowledge that both internal and external reward systems are unreliable and subject to their own disorders. Until this is done, psychiatric guidelines are of limited use in evaluating the ultimate effects of the behaviors of individuals on themselves and their communities.

Nicholas Newell

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/letters/2017/02/18/psychiatric-diagnosis-doesn-begin-account-for-potential-peril-under-trump/jMZxHpE7ZmlT8gvSNFPitJ/story.html

Posted specifically to the 23rd embed down in yours .. Why Wasn't Donald Trump's Bigotry a Deal-Breaker?: The Daily Show

.. it's glaringly obvious the basic support structure of 'IIIIIIIII' Trump's reward system is self adulation .. he craves it, worse he needs a continual fix ..

White House sends press release featuring White House praise for White House
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/replies.aspx?msg=130625962

lol, it's nuts! .. yeah, well, in reply to that one .. Lookie Here -- Brain specialist doctor believes Donald Trump’s frontal lobe is failing
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=130625962

suggests a problem up top, too .. one more, eh .. remember seeing Carlass Fiorina insisting PP was harvesting a fetus for it's brain? .. and Chaffetz talking of running for House speaker after falling on his face by presenting a grotesquely misleading graph (a perfect example of a misleading graph which might be used in Year 7 mathematics class on misleading graphs, Jason) to a congressional committee .. http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/congressman-chaffetz-misleading-graph-smear-planned-parenthood .. crass, stupid dishonesty by the lova life crowd .. but wait, as Trevor Noah with good humor points out who also love guns!! .. despite the fact that... well you know how the US rates on gun killings each year compare to other developed countries .. here's Trevor again .. Not So Pro-Life After All: The Daily Show

Unhinged does fit.