here’s the thing: trump is not mentally ill and his behavior isn’t indicative of mental illness–it’s indicative of white supremacy
so no there’s no point in pop psychologists diagnosing him for clickbait articles and for people to make snappy tweets and posts about his sanity
it’s not funny and it does nothing but reinforce the stigma around mental illness and perpetuate the belief that mentally ill people are inherently dangerous and abusive
ive said it once and i’ll say it again on many posts, the person who wrote the section on narcissistic personality disorder literally said to stop using the term “narcissist” or “mentally ill” for trump because he clearly doesnt have any sort of cluster-b personality disorder or mental illness:
“Allen Frances says he’s tired of “amateur diagnosticians” insisting that U.S. President Donald Trump has narcissistic personality disorder. And he should know. As the chair of the task force that wrote the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV, Frances literally helped write the definition of NPD.
“When people are bad, they should be labelled appropriately and denounced for their behaviours. We should not use mental illness to slur someone,” he said. “It’s a very strange society that thinks that it’s somehow worse to call Donald Trump mentally ill than to call him evil.” - Allen Frances, the writer of the DSM for NPD.
Asked why he felt the need to respond, Frances told As It Happens guest host Helen Mann: “I don’t think Donald Trump qualifies for a mental disorder.” ”
[Image description: a tweet by Allen Frances (@ AllenFrancesMD) reading “I wrote DSM criteria for Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Trump doesn’t meet them. He’s a terrible person & classic schmuck - not mentally ill.” The tweet is in response to a tweet by David Frum (@ davidfrum) reading “1) Trump, a textbook case of Narcissistic Personality Disorder, will believe the lies he tells, after he tells them samvak.tripod.com/journal75.html.” End description.]