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[-] exocrinous@startrek.website 0 points 6 months ago

Who told you Trump has NPD? If it was some rando joe schmoe, they're not qualified to make that judgement because they're not an expert. And if it was a qualified psychiatrist, they were breaking the APA's rules. The APA forbids psychiatrists from diagnosing celebrities with mental disorders. It's called the Goldwater rule. You can't just do psychiatry at random people on the street, celebrity or no celebrity. You have to talk to a patient before you can diagnose them. And if a psychiatrist has spoken to Trump, then doctor patient confidentiality applies and revealing a diagnosis would be a massive breach of professional ethics.

This is even from the Wikipedia article on the Goldwater rule:

In 2016 and 2017, a number of psychiatrists and clinical psychologists faced criticism for violating the Goldwater rule, as they claimed that Donald Trump displayed "an assortment of personality problems, including grandiosity, a lack of empathy, and 'malignant narcissism'", and that he has a "dangerous mental illness", despite having never examined him.

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