I hate every single “Is Donald Trump Mentally Ill?” article. I can’t believe how many “intelligent” people love to call the president mentally ill. It’s stupid and cruel. Stop doing that.
We have a group of psychiatrists who think it’s their “duty” to give an armchair diagnosis to the president. Really?
First, mental illness does not make you a cruel asshole who makes bad decisions. He’s stupid, willfully so. He’s egotistical, he’s selfish, he’s vain. It doesn’t matter if those things are at a level that’s diagnosable as a personality disorder or not. It certainly doesn’t tell us anything about his brain chemistry. He’s a bad person who does bad things.
Shut up psychiatrists; if you want to pitch in maybe try helping a real person who can’t afford your services.
Second, mental illness is not taken seriously. Who do they think this is going to convince? Trump supporters? It will just make them even MORE likely to follow him and believe everyone is out to get him. Call him crazy, call them crazy.
No, these articles are for the resistance. I thought the entire point of the resistance was to cling to our shared values of equality, fraternity, and freedom. You don’t need to throw some of us under the bus to do that. You’re using my very real struggle to mock and taunt your enemy. That makes you my enemy.
Just one example that's gotten under my skin: Anderson Cooper said a Trump interview sounded like, “a crazy person on a park bench”. HAHAHA wow that’s so clever.
Rule of thumb: if you wouldn't tell your joke about schizophrenia to a schizophrenic person, your joke is offensive and you should shut up! Standard "being a good person" rules apply.
Third, there’s a much better chance of impeaching him for what he does than for what some psychiatrists who have never talked to him say. Doctors that get anywhere near him aren’t going to diagnose him. He’s never going to be removed from office for being mentally incompetent. Everyone knows that, so what is the end game here? Again, just to embarrass him.
Fourth, let’s not allow psychiatrists to diagnose people they don’t know. That’s a pretty fucked up precedent, and if applied to more private citizens, a dangerous one. It’s a weird gambit for a profession that is so reviled that we make them the bad guys in nearly every non-supernatural horror movie. You are hated, psychiatrists. Work on yourselves.
Finally, and most importantly, we don’t need the stigma of having Shitler himself lumped into our group.
You already blame us for mass shootings (we aren’t more violent than you).
You already say we shouldn’t have guns, a constitutional right.
You already lock us up in shitty psychiatric hospitals (prisons without habeus corpus).
You already charge us more to access necessary health care.
You shoot us and no one is punished (half of police shooting victims are mentally ill).
You let us die in the streets (most chronically homeless people have SMI).
You have absolutely no right to say anything about us except “I’m so sorry.”
What do you think it’s like to fight an invisible, painful, destructive disease every day, struggling to be a good person and contribute to society, then turn on the news and they’re saying THAT is why our president sucks? NO. HE SUCKS BECAUSE HE CHOOSES TO SUCK. Leave mental illness out of it.
Think it’s just me? Think again.
"I think it's mostly conjecture. And when somebody tells that about Donald Trump I feel insulted to tell you the truth. People calling him that without any evidence, that makes it rough on the rest of us. It's the tendency for people to mock him. Well what does that say to me as a mentally ill person?"
Mr. David Hurst, Bipolar 1.
"I have mental illness. I hate it how people bash Trump for being racist and then instantly turn around and say he's mentally ill like that makes him less than human. Both are forms of prejudice. People just don't care about the mentally ill that much unless it directly affects them." Mike Wells
“When you read stuff like this, having said issue yourself, it makes you feel small. It makes you feel inferior, it makes you feel weak. Not only do I feel like my rights are being attacked by Trump, I feel who I am is being attacked by the American people” Ms. Leslie Templeton of the Women’s March Disability Caucus, from an interview on Talk Poverty
"There is another problem with the current debate over Mr. Trump’s mental condition: It assumes his behavior isn’t voluntary, and that his shocking or “unpresidential” conduct is a symptom of mental illness. This kind of thinking contributes to the stigmatization of mental illness. It’s entirely possible that he simply has certain personal qualities we don’t find ideal in a leader, like being a narcissistic bully who lacks basic civility and common courtesies. That he is, in a word, a jerk." Dr. Jeffrey A. Lieberman, former president of the American Psychiatric Association
Psychiatrist Dr. Prudence Gourguechon explains why it doesn’t matter if he has a mental illness or not.
Here's an examination of the Goldwater Rule and (the very good reason) the APA does not allow armchair diagnoses.
Patrick J. Kennedy, son of Ted Kennedy, wrote about this in the Washington Post.
By the way, we’ve been saying this since the campaign. Seriously, cut it out.
Please bookmark this article and share it anytime you see someone share or say something ignorant about mental illness and our worst president. Be an actual ally. Doing the right thing is possible, whether you’re mentally ill or not.
We have a group of psychiatrists who think it’s their “duty” to give an armchair diagnosis to the president. Really?
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| If it meets the Enquirer's high ethical standard, why shouldn't trained medical professionals do it? Good news about Cher, though. |
First, mental illness does not make you a cruel asshole who makes bad decisions. He’s stupid, willfully so. He’s egotistical, he’s selfish, he’s vain. It doesn’t matter if those things are at a level that’s diagnosable as a personality disorder or not. It certainly doesn’t tell us anything about his brain chemistry. He’s a bad person who does bad things.
Shut up psychiatrists; if you want to pitch in maybe try helping a real person who can’t afford your services.
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| You better hope I don't run into you in a dark parking lot, page 106. I'm "psychologically off the chain"! |
Second, mental illness is not taken seriously. Who do they think this is going to convince? Trump supporters? It will just make them even MORE likely to follow him and believe everyone is out to get him. Call him crazy, call them crazy.
No, these articles are for the resistance. I thought the entire point of the resistance was to cling to our shared values of equality, fraternity, and freedom. You don’t need to throw some of us under the bus to do that. You’re using my very real struggle to mock and taunt your enemy. That makes you my enemy.
Just one example that's gotten under my skin: Anderson Cooper said a Trump interview sounded like, “a crazy person on a park bench”. HAHAHA wow that’s so clever.
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| What a funny punchline. |
Rule of thumb: if you wouldn't tell your joke about schizophrenia to a schizophrenic person, your joke is offensive and you should shut up! Standard "being a good person" rules apply.
Third, there’s a much better chance of impeaching him for what he does than for what some psychiatrists who have never talked to him say. Doctors that get anywhere near him aren’t going to diagnose him. He’s never going to be removed from office for being mentally incompetent. Everyone knows that, so what is the end game here? Again, just to embarrass him.
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| Wow, what a hateful, fascist thing to say, Occupy Democrats |
Fourth, let’s not allow psychiatrists to diagnose people they don’t know. That’s a pretty fucked up precedent, and if applied to more private citizens, a dangerous one. It’s a weird gambit for a profession that is so reviled that we make them the bad guys in nearly every non-supernatural horror movie. You are hated, psychiatrists. Work on yourselves.
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| Now THAT'S a punchline. Take that, Dr. Leo Marvin! |
Finally, and most importantly, we don’t need the stigma of having Shitler himself lumped into our group.
You already blame us for mass shootings (we aren’t more violent than you).
You already say we shouldn’t have guns, a constitutional right.
You already lock us up in shitty psychiatric hospitals (prisons without habeus corpus).
You already charge us more to access necessary health care.
You shoot us and no one is punished (half of police shooting victims are mentally ill).
You let us die in the streets (most chronically homeless people have SMI).
You have absolutely no right to say anything about us except “I’m so sorry.”
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| It's a koan, as long as you're looking for a rage-fueled meditation session. |
What do you think it’s like to fight an invisible, painful, destructive disease every day, struggling to be a good person and contribute to society, then turn on the news and they’re saying THAT is why our president sucks? NO. HE SUCKS BECAUSE HE CHOOSES TO SUCK. Leave mental illness out of it.
Think it’s just me? Think again.
"I think it's mostly conjecture. And when somebody tells that about Donald Trump I feel insulted to tell you the truth. People calling him that without any evidence, that makes it rough on the rest of us. It's the tendency for people to mock him. Well what does that say to me as a mentally ill person?"
Mr. David Hurst, Bipolar 1.
"I have mental illness. I hate it how people bash Trump for being racist and then instantly turn around and say he's mentally ill like that makes him less than human. Both are forms of prejudice. People just don't care about the mentally ill that much unless it directly affects them." Mike Wells
“When you read stuff like this, having said issue yourself, it makes you feel small. It makes you feel inferior, it makes you feel weak. Not only do I feel like my rights are being attacked by Trump, I feel who I am is being attacked by the American people” Ms. Leslie Templeton of the Women’s March Disability Caucus, from an interview on Talk Poverty
"There is another problem with the current debate over Mr. Trump’s mental condition: It assumes his behavior isn’t voluntary, and that his shocking or “unpresidential” conduct is a symptom of mental illness. This kind of thinking contributes to the stigmatization of mental illness. It’s entirely possible that he simply has certain personal qualities we don’t find ideal in a leader, like being a narcissistic bully who lacks basic civility and common courtesies. That he is, in a word, a jerk." Dr. Jeffrey A. Lieberman, former president of the American Psychiatric Association
Psychiatrist Dr. Prudence Gourguechon explains why it doesn’t matter if he has a mental illness or not.
Here's an examination of the Goldwater Rule and (the very good reason) the APA does not allow armchair diagnoses.
Patrick J. Kennedy, son of Ted Kennedy, wrote about this in the Washington Post.
By the way, we’ve been saying this since the campaign. Seriously, cut it out.
Please bookmark this article and share it anytime you see someone share or say something ignorant about mental illness and our worst president. Be an actual ally. Doing the right thing is possible, whether you’re mentally ill or not.
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