Comments by "oneoflokis" (@oneoflokis) on "Diagnosing Public Figures | Donald Trump / Narcissistic Personality Disorder Controversy" video.
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My two cents: I don't think that it bodes very well for your profession, Dr Grande, or for all the "years of training and licensure", if you can admit that you and your colleagues "aren't very good at diagnosis, even when the subject is sitting in front of us." 😏
That may be an honest diagnosis to make - but honestly, which MD who had a physical health specialisation, would say the same thing?
Makes me wonder what the years of training and license are actually for? 😏
Again, it is probably honest of you to admit, that basically, diagnosis of mental conditions is for treatment purposes only.
As for that 25th Amendment, I reckon that a sitting president would have to do a Madness Of King George, before that got invoked! 😏
But, as people have said here, narcissistic people rarely present themselves to psychiatrists - and why should they? They LIKE being narcissistic! 😏
And personally, I believe that the amount of "top" people with some kind of personality disorder, must be LEGION! In Hollywood, and in the arts and entertainments industries, as well! I remember reading quite a bit of stuff in a book about (in several of its chapters) the wife of the conductor Andre Previn, who treated her assistants like a sort of lesbian mistress... Completely inappropriately and unwantedly! And then, reading up online about Woody Allen's ex wife, and how she "coached" her kids, in all sorts of bizarre "sexual molestation" fantasies! These people are all nuts, completely neurotic ! Even a lay person can literally see that, from a distance, as well..😏
Why we are supposed to have all this faith , in our "betters", is what beats me!
The amount of politicians and CEOs, even in Western democratic countries, who must surely have some sort of personality disorder and certainly act like it, must be massive, as well. After all, that's what that "professional" book, Snakes In Suits, was written about, no? And that was about psychopaths in the workplace! At least 4-5% of CEOs, it said. The number of narcissists in these top jobs must be multiples of that! Otherwise, why would the world be in such a state? 🙂
(Although I think that even books of that sort recognise that there is also a positive side to narcissistic and "grandiose" qualities - because who , without bags of self-confidence and a fair bit of ego, would ever try to lead or start a major company, or lead a political party, after all?)
As a closing statement: I think that some of the most grandiose (and frankly, grand) statements I have ever read, have been in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.
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