The President of the United States is starting to decompensate.  That is a psychological term describing the loss of psychological organization.

I’m a clinical psychologist.  I see the President of the United States psychologically decompensating in twitter bursts of increasingly paranoid-persecutory ideation. 

He’s picked a fight with the FBI. Probably not a good idea, to pick a fight with the FBI.

I wouldn’t pick a fight with the FBI.  But Donald Trump’s conspiritorial delusions are beginning to captivate his collapsing psychological structure.  But can I say any of this?  I’m a psychologist and I’m not supposed to comment on the psychological characteristics of another person unless I’ve personally conducted an interview.

But this is the President of the United States with his finger on the nuclear button.  He is aggressively attacking to undermine the institutions of our democracy.  He is threat to our national security, a fact that is openly recognized.  Am I still not allowed to speak about the apparent increasing psychological decompensation of the President of the United States?

There comes a time when speaking out becomes essential to a free democracy.  It is my guaranteed constitutional right to bring my full knowledge to open political discourse.

Donald Trump is beginning to psychological decompensate into increasing persecutory delusions and erratic behavior.

Craig Childress, Psy.D.
Clinical Psychologist, PSY 18857