THE INSIDER: Donald diagnosed as a douche
Donald Trump may be a world-class narcissist but he does not suffer the distress required to diagnose a mental disorder
Finally, a medical health professional has made official what many of us thought unofficially: calling Donald Trump mentally ill is an insult to the mentally ill. Allen Frances, professor emeritus of psychiatry and behavioural science at Duke University Medical College (and author of the excellent book, Saving Normal), told the New York Times that he wrote the criteria for narcissistic personality disorder — and Trump doesn’t meet them. "He may be a world-class narcissist, but this doesn’t make him mentally ill," Frances said, "because he does not suffer from the distress required to diagnose mental disorder…. Trump causes severe distress rather than experiencing it and has been richly rewarded, rather than punished, for his grandiosity, self-absorption and lack of empathy. It is a stigmatising insult to the mentally ill (who are mostly well-behaved and well-meaning) to be lumped with Trump (who is neither)." So, there you have it: Trump is not ill, he’s just obnoxious and self-serv...
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