Maybe read the entire message?

And he has much more insanity than just NPD.

titled The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump.

I do agree that Trump IS dangerous and I also agree with Allen that we are in this mess because so many people
voted for a dangerous con man. What does it say about the voters--and the future of our country--that so many
people would buy into a self destructive option? I think it is just as important to focus on the self-destructiveness
of the voters--and the other elected Republicans who are supporting a dangerous con man--as it is to understand
why and what makes Trump so dangerous.

I really do fear for the future of the country. We're in a horrible mess. Even if Mueller's investigation results in
Trump being removed from office, then we have to deal with Pence or Ryan. Neither one of them is going
to change the direction in which things are headed. We're in a big mess.

an art-form. The man is the biggest asshole I have ever seen in my life. How he has gotten this far in life without being covered in scar tissue from regular beatings is a mystery to me.

that is Donald Trump. His only concern is what benefits him in the moment.

becomes so messed up and bad that they can legitimately be classified as crazy. I'm sure psychiatrists would disagree with me, but for all practical purposes, Trump is so bad, he's crazy.

If you look back on Trump's life, you see an immoral, selfish man, but I think he is now becoming unhinged and possibly crazy.

Though the man is a pathological liar, he has never disguised who he really is, as such it is not so much Trump that upsets me, but the millions of people who support such a person.

Excellent observation in the article, "We're medicalizing immorality". "Most bad people are no mentally ill; most mentally ill people aren't bad."

Morality isn't held soley by individuals. It is encoded in society, in its film, literature and legislation. THE ASSHOLE is condoned by our collective embrace of the individual as more important than the collective. It's a belief system that the Womens' Marches, thank goodness, are challenging – and fantastically so.

It's not that there is no place at all for individualism, it's that it ferments into full-on narcissism if the media and the culture feeds it.

We need a better balance between the individual and society.

Welcome to DU!

Welcome indeed!

The other details are funny too. And the flag says 1775!

And the vultures outside sitting in the tree!

It serves quite well to course correct my thinking. Trump's mental faculties might or might not be deteriorating but falling for the idea of mental illness lets him off the hook. I've dealt with enough narcissists and people with a mean streak to know better. Reading this interview has corrected my mental drift.

This quote really hit home:

"Trump is, without a doubt, a world-class narcissist. Not just among the great narcissists of our day, but among the great narcissists of all time. You have to go back to Nero in Rome maybe to find someone as self-involved and destructive as he is."

He can probably be compared to every despot in history and the similarities would be legion.

...I think that's sufficient in terms of description. There must have been some true and massive mental illness going on there, though. The "self-involved and destructive" sure apply.

Is NPD a mental illness? Medical professionals seem pretty unanimous in describing it as a mental "disorder." No one seems to define a difference, though.

I know someone quite well that has either NPD or BPD (Bordrerline), or a melange of both. Hard to distinguish between the two, at least for me.

I do know that the only treatment for BPD is behavior modification, which is difficult in the extreme to achieve.

I find it hard to take a psych seriously that uses ableist terms like, "idiot" (which actually means developmentally disabled) and throws around "narcissistic" as if narcissism wasn't an mental illness actual listing in the DSM.

Makes the "expert" come off as exceedingly unprofessional & thus not exactly trustworthy.

I'd have much preferred an actual analysis that included where he seems to tread into mental illness and where it's clear that Trump is simply a white, wealthy, male spoiled brat with an overdeveloped sense of entitlement.

My late friend had an incredible grasp of the entire manual...to the point that she rose into a position in our mental health care system that technically require a Master's. She did not have one, clearly, but she was so knowledgeable that she interviewed and tested better than those who did.

The two of us could have chewed this bone into dust, but that's far from the only reason a miss her.

Thank you for your unit of wisdom.

makes him deranged and dangerous.

how could so many people be fooled by such a disgusting man

Deplorables is an accurate description

His actions aren’t driven just by his dementia, Trump is truly a dick at heart.