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Ilsa

(61,695 posts) Fri Jun 22, 2018, 03:38 PM Jun 2018

My son's pediatric psychiatrist is a wonderful

Woman from Puerto Rico. She labelled trump a narcissist after listening to him for about fifteen minutes. So, naturally, she and I talk about him from time to time, even though she says she is neither a D or R.

Today, she greeted me with, "Mr. Trump has been very busy lately." She and I talked, and she told me she wrote him a letter explaining the psychological harm being done to these children, especially the young ones. She said she knows it won't help, but she had to do something.

I thanked her.

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My son's pediatric psychiatrist is a wonderful (Original Post) Ilsa Jun 2018 OP

I've spoken to several mental health professionals marylandblue Jun 2018 #1

I am a mental health professional. I held off for a long time but I'm retired now. nolabear Jun 2018 #2

You said: Ilsa Jun 2018 #3

Yeah. It would be tragic except it's dangerous. nolabear Jun 2018 #4

Very, for someone in a position of power & authority. nt Ilsa Jun 2018 #5

marylandblue

(12,344 posts)

1. I've spoken to several mental health professionals

Reply to Ilsa (Original post)

Fri Jun 22, 2018, 03:52 PM

Jun 2018

They all agree he is a narcissist.

nolabear

(41,986 posts)

2. I am a mental health professional. I held off for a long time but I'm retired now.

Reply to marylandblue (Reply #1)

Fri Jun 22, 2018, 04:07 PM

Jun 2018

I've been thinking of writing about what it means to be a narcissist, and what it means to go through what those children are going through. But I don't know if people here are that interested in the minutae. They're horrifying.

But you can boil 45 down to a simple thing. He's the worst kind of narcissist. Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, is not a human being but is a means to an end, and that end is getting what he wants and needs. He needs power to reassure himself endlessly that he is the best. That he is superior and deserving of whatever he can get. I am a means. You are a means. His followers are a means. His family are a means. His "friends" (he actually has none in the normal sense) are means. America is a means.

The narcissist is a bucket with a hole in it. No amount of filling will fill it. So those objects-not people but objects- are pursued with a manic level of need and the possibility of harm is irrelevant. You cannot harm an object. That is clearly demonstrated to be his psychological construction. I feel for anyone who believes themselves to be the exception. You see the being thrown under the bus every day.