What medical professionals are saying about Trump's symptoms of mental illness, including his cognitive decline

[southernhybrid]

https://mindsitenews.org/2025/04/21/trump-and-dementia/

The link contains a long and interesting interview with a psychiatrist who has a lot of experience with mentally ill people who have a tendency to be violent. She discusses Trump's symptoms of psychopathy, malignant narcissism and dementia in a very detailed way. You really need to read the entire piece, but I'll post a little bit to get you all started. I will add other articles during the week regarding how other medical professionals see Trump's mental state and how it has the potential to damage the the world. I encourage others to do some research and find other articles to add to this thread.

I don't think you have to be a medical professional to see the symptoms the doctor describes, unless you've been indoctrinated into the cult that he has created or you simply can't handle the truth. The doctor makes a lot of very interesting points regarding Trump's mental state and how she even thinks he wants help but is unable to control his harmful nature.

Eight years ago, psychiatrist and prominent violence expert Bandy X. Lee and a cadre of mental health professionals issued a dire warning: President Donald Trump was mentally unfit to remain in the presidency and his doing so amounted to a public health crisis. Today, she continues to sound the alarm despite ongoing harassment and death threats.

“Perhaps the oddest experience in my career as a psychiatrist has been to find that the only people not allowed to speak about an issue are those who know the most about it,” she wrote in her introduction to the 2017 book she organized and edited, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President, which has been continually updated and republished.

Lee was talking about a 2017 directive from the American Psychiatric Association telling its members it was “unacceptable and unethical” to talk about Donald Trump’s mental capacity for office. Mental health professionals like Lee and others were worrying long about that before he was elected: In the months before Trump was elected to his first term, an online warning about the dangers of Trumpism was published with more than 2,200 signatures. At around the same time, another book from academics and therapists came out: a collection of essays called A Clear and Present Danger: Narcissism in the Era of Donald Trump.

During his 2024 campaign, Trump showed bizarre behaviors, including garbled speech and a Pennsylvania rally at which he put a stop to questions, declared that he and the audience would now have “a music” and then swayed in silence to recorded songs on stage for 39 minutes. Some psychiatrists have said this reflected a problem in his cognitive abilities. Could you comment on this and other unusual behaviors you and the World Mental Health Coalition have observed in Trump and what they indicate?

There is indeed a statement on cognitive concerns [about Trump] that the World Mental Health Coalition put out before the election, signed by fifty of the most renowned forensic psychiatrists, neuropsychiatrists, and dementia specialists in the country, and published on our web site.

We listed problems that included a deterioration in language skills, such as simpler vocabulary, incomplete and incoherent sentences, grammatical errors, and paraphasias (substituting words); impaired memory/recall, such as confabulation, where memory gaps are filled with false or fabricated details; and tangential thinking, where speech often drifts to unrelated topics in an erratic manner.

The above is just a small sample of the interesting interview that helped me have an even deeper understanding of this dangerous man's symptoms.

 

[ideologyhunter]

So what are the oranges of Trump's problems?

 

[Bronzeage]

The word "decline" implies a progression. I don't think he is any less stupid or capable the first time he ran for President. He simply has the kind of stupidity that appeals to other stupid people and is easily manipulated by evil people. Nothing much has changed.

 

[southernhybrid]

The word "decline" implies a progression. I don't think he is any less stupid or capable the first time he ran for President. He simply has the kind of stupidity that appeals to other stupid people and is easily manipulated by evil people. Nothing much has changed.

I"m not sure what you mean. The psychiatrist is explaining his mental health symptoms and examples of his cognitive decline which she associated with dementia in her interview. Are you saying you don't see that he is far more confused and dangerous then he was during his first term? Maybe he didn't seem as dangerous because he had somewhat sensible people working to stop him from committing the worst actions, but to me, he is far more unhinged during his second term compared to his first term. Not sure if you read the entire interview, but she goes into a lot of detail as to why she has come to the conclusions she's made about Trump's mental status.

I do agree that he has the ability to appeal to a certain type of person. The doctor in the interview does mention that his behavior is contagious. Is that your point?

 

[TSwizzle]

I don't think you have to be a medical professional to see the symptoms the doctor describes, unless {snip}

you are talking about Brandon.

 

[Patooka]

I don't think you have to be a medical professional to see the symptoms the doctor describes, unless {snip}

you are talking about Brandon.

Proof that MAGAtards don't care about reality, right there.

 

[Toni]

The word "decline" implies a progression. I don't think he is any less stupid or capable the first time he ran for President. He simply has the kind of stupidity that appeals to other stupid people and is easily manipulated by evil people. Nothing much has changed.

You are correct in that he has always been stupid and almost entirely without anything resembling empathy and that he showed obvious mental confusion during his first term. But this term, the transcripts of his public speeches are no longer available to the general public as such transcripts have always been available previously, including during his first term. They do not want official archived evidence of the fact that he is not just a mentally ill narcissist but is also in serious cognitive decline.

My guess is that they 86 him 2 years and 2 days/weeks/months into his term in order to install little JD and give JD the opportunity fur two additional terms.

 

[scombrid]

I think rollcall.com is generating accurate transcripts. Attempt to read his address to the West Point graduates or his meeting with the SA president and it is very apparent why the GOP has stopped providing transcripts.

 

[barbos]

The word "decline" implies a progression. I don't think he is any less stupid or capable the first time he ran for President. He simply has the kind of stupidity that appeals to other stupid people and is easily manipulated by evil people. Nothing much has changed.

Exactly!
Dementia is always progressing. Trump does not have that. And he does not even have any symptoms of dementia. He is simply dumb and stupid. He has not changed at all in the last 20 years. It's actually quite remarkable if you think about it.

 

[Toni]

The word "decline" implies a progression. I don't think he is any less stupid or capable the first time he ran for President. He simply has the kind of stupidity that appeals to other stupid people and is easily manipulated by evil people. Nothing much has changed.

Exactly!
Dementia is always progressing. Trump does not have that. And he does not even have any symptoms of dementia. He is simply dumb and stupid. He has not changed at all in the last 20 years. It's actually quite remarkable if you think about it.

Actually, he has changed, and has declined cognitively quite significantly. Yes, he’s always been a narcissistic greedy idiot but listening to recordings of interviews or speaking engagements from 20+ years ago to now—it is impossible to miss that he has declined very significantly. I wrote this as someone who totally ignored Trump until he ran in 2016. At that point, some radio stations were re-playing recordings of Trump from 20 years prior. He was always shallow and self involved and self important. But not actually stupid within those parameters. Now—he is unable to maintain a line of thought. Most older people tend to ramble and public speaking is difficult, especially when the speaking engagement is high stakes as it always is for any POTUS. That is why prominent figures have speech writers. Trump apparently does not because rather famously he does not read and perhaps cannot read well, likely because of an undiagnosed learning disability, probably some form of dyslexia. Dyslexia does not mean one is not smart but Trump’s intelligence has always been limited to a narrow range of topics and he has never demonstrated any curiosity or desire to learn more or understand more deeply.

He has tremendous talent as a bullshitter and he’s an accomplished bully. I don’t understand why people have never stood up to him but some people find comfort in hearing their own prejudices and bigotries parroted by someone they view as powerful. Some people just don’t want to think and a dictator makes that so much easier.

Trump cannot control his own bowels but he has control over the nuclear codes

 

[ZiprHead]

So what are the oranges of Trump's problems?

I see what you did there.

 

[ZiprHead]

The word "decline" implies a progression. I don't think he is any less stupid or capable the first time he ran for President. He simply has the kind of stupidity that appeals to other stupid people and is easily manipulated by evil people. Nothing much has changed.

Exactly!
Dementia is always progressing. Trump does not have that. And he does not even have any symptoms of dementia. He is simply dumb and stupid. He has not changed at all in the last 20 years. It's actually quite remarkable if you think about it.

I tend to agree. Not 100 percent but...

I think his narcissism and sociopathy are his biggest problems. He has no empathy, no loyalty to anyone who cannot do anything for him. Very little intelligence or problem solving skills. Things that could be developed if his extreme narcissism didn't get in the way.

 

[southernhybrid]

I'm just curious. Did anyone bother to read the linked article based on an interview with a highly respected, very experienced psychiatrist who gave lots of information as to Trump's symptoms of mental illness, as well as his obvious cognitive decline? Just asking.

The word "decline" implies a progression. I don't think he is any less stupid or capable the first time he ran for President. He simply has the kind of stupidity that appeals to other stupid people and is easily manipulated by evil people. Nothing much has changed.

Exactly!
Dementia is always progressing. Trump does not have that. And he does not even have any symptoms of dementia. He is simply dumb and stupid. He has not changed at all in the last 20 years. It's actually quite remarkable if you think about it.

I tend to agree. Not 100 percent but...

I think his narcissism and sociopathy are his biggest problems. He has no empathy, no loyalty to anyone who cannot do anything for him. Very little intelligence or problem solving skills. Things that could be developed if his extreme narcissism didn't get in the way.

I agree with you Zip, and if his only problem was cognitive decline and he had intelligent cabinet members and advisors with him who he took advice from, he wouldn't be that much of a threat. Considering all of his cabinet members are as stupid as as he is, we're fucked. Even little Marco has become a part of the cult.

 

[barbos]

I'm just curious. Did anyone bother to read the linked article based on an interview with a highly respected, very experienced psychiatrist

I did not bother. "Highly respected" and "psychiatrist" generally don't go together, considering the situation with psychiatric drugs in US.
The only reason Biden "supporters" mentions dementia is because Biden clearly have it and they automatically project it on his opponent. Always projections.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

I'm just curious. Did anyone bother to read the linked article based on an interview with a highly respected, very experienced psychiatrist who gave lots of information as to Trump's symptoms of mental illness, as well as his obvious cognitive decline? Just asking.

I think the issue is we are divided into those for whom this is "yeah, water is wet" and denial. Those willing to listen have already listened in the past.

 

[Elixir]

The word "decline" implies a progression. I don't think he is any less stupid or capable the first time he ran for President. He simply has the kind of stupidity that appeals to other stupid people and is easily manipulated by evil people. Nothing much has changed.

Listen to him propounding back in the 1980s, then tell me nothing has changed.
He is a demented shell of what he once was, and that was “not much”.

 

[scombrid]

Just go back and watch him doing the talk shows back in 2012 when they had him start his run with the Birther bullshit. Compare that Trump to current Trump. The decline is serious and obvious.

 

[southernhybrid]

I'm just curious. Did anyone bother to read the linked article based on an interview with a highly respected, very experienced psychiatrist

I did not bother. "Highly respected" and "psychiatrist" generally don't go together, considering the situation with psychiatric drugs in US.
The only reason Biden "supporters" mentions dementia is because Biden clearly have it and they automatically project it on his opponent. Always projections.

Once again, you have no idea what you're talking about. And, I have no idea what you're referring to when. you mention drugs to treat mental illnesses. Mental illness can be very difficult to treat. They are disorders of the brain.

Sometimes Rx. drugs help, while many don't or they have side effects which can be harmful. My late father suffered from bipolar disorder, anxiety and intermittent depression. Some of the drugs he took helped his symptoms, but when he was young, his mania was often out of control. Luckily, he usually did constructive things like remodel the kitchen or build a room on the house in a few weeks, when he was extremely manic. He also suffered from severe PTSD related to combat and there are no effective treatments for that at this point, although he did need to depend on anti anxiety drugs for most of his adult life due to the PTSD.

I've cared for people with all kinds of mental illnesses. While the drugs never cure these diseases, they often control the worst symptoms, like violence and aggressive behavior. Sometimes all you can do is humor these people to keep them from becoming violent or going into a rage. That's fine if the person has no power and has caregivers to keep them from being violent. it's not the same as having a very powerful man with serious untreated brain disorders being permitted to do whatever he wants.

Last week he was praising Putin. This week he's criticizing him and threatening Russia with sanctions. Next week or tomorrow it might be somethings else. Trump goes into rages and threatens anyone who criticizes him. These are all symptoms of a man with a very serious brain disorder. When one has dementia or is a psychopath, violent threats and rage are often symptoms. It's very obvious that Trump has these symptoms, not that you seem the least bit interested in understanding or learning about these disorders, especially considering that the leader of your country is obviously a psychopath who has no empathy as evidenced by the treats his own citizens who have the courage to criticize him. Maybe you should ask yourself if you're also the victim of a cult, if you actually support your own leader.

Oh well. I'm wasting my time again. We all have our weaknesses.

 

[pood]

@southernhybrid, you’re not wasting your time when others appreciate you posts.

 

[KCFlyer]

you are talking about Brandon.

Do me a favor and watch Trumps commencement ramble at West Point. Then tell me how great it was.