Could Donald Trump actually have a mental illness, or Is he just a narcissistic jerk?

[UnderstatedCornHole]

S.T.A.G.E. said:

UnderstatedCornHole said:

And?

You're just covering ground that has been covered a thousand times before. There's nothing new here, it's all just more of Trump being Trump but he hasn't gone any further with this than previously. He hasn't gone so far as to change anyone's opinion who like him with this.

They are more interested in going forward.

Nobody gives a damn that didn't give a damn before, because your talking points and that of the OP's are just a re-hash of previous talking points, which were a re-hash of previous ones.

Until it can be shown that this narcassism which hasn't even been proven has any credible bearing on his ability to perform in office, then quite frankly and quite rightly on a practical level; nobody cares that didn't care before.

The liberals have spent their "cry wolf" credits and it would take something cataclysmic to be taken seriously on anything negative on Trump from those that see through the red lens. You and everyone else will have to do a lot better than regurgitating poorly researched pseudo psychology that just wanders aimlessly in hypotheticals to be taken seriously or even with grace.

People have had it up to here!

edit: That last few words says it all really, these aren't Trump's issues. They are your issues with Trump. You don't like the guy, van jones doesn't like the guy, ok, great, fantastic, very happy for you, him, everyone.

Now what?

No ones saying change their opinon on trump. Psychologists have already calledout trump as being a narcissist. Textbook even. One professor from Harvard even admitted that he used trump as an example of textbook narcissism for his class. This was confessed to the atlantic. It has  nothing to do with whether I like him, I dont like narcissists. Ive been around some.  Its not healthy. When you grow up around people with money, you tend to find a couple.

I'm with you on the disliking narcassits. People don't realize just how evil they are, it goes much deepr than just loving yourself a bit more than is the norm. Maybe the angling would be better to go with what being a narcassit truly entails. Inability to feel genuine empathy doesn't really cover it.

Having spent the past 12 months in an on off relationship with a non diagnosed bpd, suicide threats, projection to farcical levels, even at 32 learning more about people psychologically than I thought possible. That's after having spent 12 months in a residential rehabilitation unit for my behaviour age 21 for a road traffic accident/front lobe brain injury.

These people are EVIL and do not deserve ANY compassion or respect for their plight. That was a hard lesson as because of my psychological past, empathy goes hand in hand with everything, except the internet :p so to condemn a person that has "good bits" is difficult but a requirment.

Anyway, if you liberal leaning people want to highlight narcassism then you can all do a much better job than you are. It simply doesn't resonate when put in those sound bite sentences. I'm not too fussed personally though because an evil person can still run a country well, however thin skinned, and all the rest of it.

No doubt about it, I hate Trump's personality on a social level but I'm a strong supporter none the less. It doesn't have to be zero sum because the choices in politics are between bad and worse.

(edit: my experience with bpd hell woman was not a narcassist but the symptoms are all more or less shared across the DSM criteria)