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.

[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

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?

Don't piss on my boots and tell me it's raining.