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.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 1 week ago

You're right, it was a question for someone qualified.