I really do not understand his infatuation with Greenland.
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I wasn't trying to be. Articles suggest he is being treated for Alzheimer's. And having been in the medical caregivers’ and adjacent fields in some form or fashion off and on for several decades, that's how we reference these matters. If you want to to suggest a better way of asking the question, I'm open to the suggestion.
There are no articles suggesting he has schizophrenia though, so randomly making that accusation is out of place. Also, anyone who reads your message, who either deals with schizophrenia themselves, or is close to someone who does, would likely be offended at being compared to actions like this, which we have no reason to assume has any relation to schizophrenia at all.
Noted and thank you. I could have just said Alzheimer's or other hallucinations?
Why exactly do you think has any relation to 'hallucinations' at all?
I do not understand what you're seeing here that calls to mind the idea of him hallucinating.
I've worked with/been around people who say wild things that are a result of hallucinations.
I assume you must be talking about hallucinations that are supported by delusions, although again I have no real idea why Trump's weird but ultimately easy to explain obsession with Greenland would bring that to mind.
Your experience as a medical carer doesn't give you a sufficient understanding of how these disorders and symptoms work to be throwing around diagnoses of public figures because they did or said something that you personally thought was weird.
Schizophrenia is a deeply stigmatized disorder and the intense stigma and fear of schizophrenic people is a MASSIVE part of what makes the disorder so severe. Connecting behavior like this from Trump to the idea of schizophrenia is both completely baseless from a diagnostic perspective AND is a statement that reinforces the stigma of schizophrenic people as being violent and dangerous in an unhinged sense.
Contributing to hostile stigmas like this does nothing but make the lives of the severely mental ill harder, and is a extremely pervasive form of ableism.
You're right, it was a question for someone qualified.
I'm schizophrenic, there's no reason to compare someone like me to someone making these sorts of actions
I am sorry. It very much matches professional and personal experiences I have had. Would better words have been "these are the symptoms of someone extremely unwell and untreated," be better? I want to learn, and also share with friends and colleagues, however there is a need for candor to avoid confusion.
Thank you.
You can't diagnose someone by a tweet. Just don't. It's really poor form.
Psychiatric disability is not a bludgeon to attack people with. You can say Trump is completely out of touch with reality, that he's surrounded himself with yes-men and he's high on his own supply, that he's full of shit, that he is a hateful person - all of these things are true. But there's no need to play armchair psychologist and do this faux-diagnosis routine.
In my professional experience, it's deeply unprofessional for someone qualified in psychology or psychiatry to do this sort of thing but, in my professional experience, people with these qualifications are trained not to do exactly this because it casts their professions in a bad light and, at worst, they can face repercussions with regulatory agencies. I find that it's usually someone who works in a paraprofessional role who makes vague references to their "profession" to imply that they have special insight into these matters, despite lacking qualifications, because this area of work has a serious problem with a culture of deeply ingrained ableism.
If your intent is candor then why speak beyond what you know for a fact and if your intent is clarity then why confuse a professional diagnosis from someone qualified to do so based on clinical observations with gut feeling based on a tweet?
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