Unhinged

Donald J. Trump(@realDonaldTrump)

“Many lawyers and top law firms want to represent me in the Russia case…don’t believe the Fake News narrative that it is hard to find a lawyer who wants to take this on. Fame & fortune will NEVER be turned down by a lawyer, though some are conflicted. Problem is that a new……

….lawyer or law firm will take months to get up to speed (if for no other reason than they can bill more), which is unfair to our great country – and I am very happy with my existing team. Besides, there was NO COLLUSION with Russia, except by Crooked Hillary and the Dems!”


 Donald Trump  is coming unhinged. 

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

Purge

Cohn is gone.  McMaster is gone.  Dowd is gone.  Night of the long knives.  Purging the “disloyal” and consolidating power.

Trump is psychologically decompensating.  He’s hired TV personalities.  Larry Kudlow, John Bolton, Joseph deGenova.

Trump is creating his world of unreality.  A world of chaos in which Trump is the sole power.  None of his staff knows what is going to happen, so no one can show initiative.  Everyone waits to see what Trump decides.  Trump achieves power.

Things are not going to go well.  Trump is psychologically decompensating.

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

 

I’m Concerned

From Theodore Millon:

From Millon:  “Were narcissists able to respect others, allow themselves to value others’ opinions, or see the world through others’ eyes, their tendency toward illusion and unreality might be checked or curtailed.  Unfortunately, narcissists have learned to devalue others, not to trust their judgments, and to think of them as naïve and simpleminded.  Thus, rather than question the correctness of their own beliefs they assume that the views of others are at fault.  Hence, the more disagreement they have with others, the more convinced they are of their own superiority and the more isolated and alienated they are likely to become.” (Millon, 2011, p. 415)

From Millon:Deficient in social controls and self-discipline, the tendency of CEN narcissists to fantasize and distort may speed up.  The air of grandiosity may become more flagrant.  They may find hidden and deprecatory meanings in the incidental behavior of others, becoming convinced of others malicious motives, claims upon them, and attempts to undo them.  As their behaviors and thoughts transgress the line of reality, their alienation will mount, and they may seek to protect their phantom image of superiority more vigorously and vigilantly than ever… No longer in touch with reality, they begin to accuse others and hold them responsible for their own shame and failures.  They may build a “logic” based on irrelevant and entirely circumstantial evidence and ultimately construct a delusion system to protect themselves from unbearable reality.” (Millon, 2011, p. 415)

Millon. T. (2011). Disorders of personality: introducing a DSM/ICD spectrum from normal to abnormal. Hoboken: Wiley. 

I don’t think this is going to end well.

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

Decompensation

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

Disgusting Human

JabbaDonald Trump is a disgusting human. 

He’s repulsive.  His values are repulsive.  His behavior is repulsive.  He’s just a vile and repulsive human being.

He brings shame upon us all.  To the Trump voters, you have brought shame upon us, upon the United States.

Donald Trump is a national disgrace, and a threat to national security.  He is a vile and disgusting human being.  Racist, misogynistic, hateful, disgusting little man.

A grotesque.

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