• mosiacmango
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    8 days ago

    No, it helps. Harris needled the shit out of him and he went off in a narcissistic rage. He was saying some absolutely crazy shit. 9 month and live baby abortions, immigrants in Springfield Ohio are eating cats and dogs, only having “the concept of a plan” to replace obamacare after 9 fucking years, that dems were giving immigrants trans surgery in prison, on and on. The moderators corrected his stupidest shit, but he still tried to shout them down anyway.

    It was absolutely bat shit. Here’s a good recap if you can’t stand watching it.

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      I’m a bit concerned that the specific wording of your comment could potentially associate Trump with innocent people who have NPD, and worsen existing problems with hate and harassment suffered by people with NPD. Maybe you could avoid using words that have a loaded psychiatric meaning.

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        His niece Mary trump is a psychologist, and well aware of her uncle at a personal level. She agrees that he suffered a “narcissistic injury.

        “That was a narcissistic injury that he will never get over, actually,” Mary Trump said. “He will continue to defend himself against that even if he never says a word about it again. That is how thin-skinned he is, that is how incredibly fragile his ego is.”

        I expect my description of Trumps reaction is roughly accurate, and not in anyway belittling or containing “a loaded psychological meaning” referring to any other person.

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          Legally speaking, Mary Trump is lucky she’s a psychologist and not a psychiatrist. Psychiatrists in America are held to the Goldwater Rule, which states they cannot speculate on the mental disorders of public figures. Mary’s personal relationship is irrelevant, Trump hasn’t given consent for her to treat him, and indeed if he had, there would be a conflict of interest. You can’t do psychiatry at random people on the street, and you can’t violate medical confidentiality without direct and imminent harm to the patient. While the American Psychological Association has no such rule, I would still consider diagnosis of Trump without permission or a patient doctor rapport to be a violation of professional ethics.

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            Neat.

            I think an experienced psychologist, with deep personal experience with a specific person, gave a reasonable diagnosis of said persons specific behaviour at an event, behavior that said person has commonly engaged in on the world stage for a decade, if not longer, for all the world to see. The behavior shes giving her opinion on matches closely, in theme and intent, to the term I used as a layman on the internet.

            I stand by my description.

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              If you mean to say that she had a sufficient intimacy to diagnose him with a mental disorder, then making that diagnosis public is a violation of confidentiality and consent. Professionals have standards. I would never want to be Mary Trump’s patient, knowing she does not have any standards of patient privacy.