Renewed Alarm

Renewed Alarm

In 2017, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President articulated the perils inherent in our 45th, and now 47th, President’s delusions and actions.  In 2019, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President—Updated and Expanded with New Essays carried the theme.  Today, The Much More Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, 50 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Professionals Warn Anew raises further alarm!

As Donald Trump‘s insanity grows increasingly flagrant my, minimally edited, earlier commentary grows increasingly poignant:

The 2019 edition concludes:
President Donald Trump is dangerously mentally ill and that he presents a clear and present danger to the nation.  .  .  .  From the trauma people have experience under the Trump administration to the cult-like characteristic of his followers, he has created unprecedented mental health consequences across our nation and beyond.  It’s not in our heads.  It’s in his.

These experts agree that Donald Trump exhibits classic symptoms of Malignant Narcissistic Personality Disorder.  The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM5) defines Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) as, “a persistent manner of grandiosity, a continuous desire for admiration, along with a lack of empathy. It starts in early adulthood and occurs in a range of situations, as signified by the existence of any 5 of the next 9 standards,

  • A grandiose logic of self-importance
  • A fixation with fantasies of infinite success, control, brilliance, beauty or idyllic love
  • A credence that he or she is extraordinary and exceptional and can only be understood by, or should connect with, other extraordinary or important people or institutions
  • A desire for unwarranted admiration
  • A sense of entitlement
  • Interpersonal oppressive behavior
  • No form of empathy
  • Resentment of others or a conviction that others are resentful of him or her
  • A display of egotistical and conceited behavior or attitudes”

That’s 9 for 9 folks: Narcissistic Personality Disorder on steroids!  We don’t need the President of the America Psychiatric Association for this call!  

DSM5 does not defien “Malignant.” Campbell’s Psychiatric Dictionary describes Malignant Narcissism as combining characteristics of Narcissistic and Antisocial Personality Disorders, making the patient not only delusional but potentially dangerous!

Even Darkness Must Pass

“It’s all wrong.  By right we shouldn’t even be here.  But we are.  It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo.  The ones that really mattered.  Full of darkness and danger they were…But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow.  Even darkness must pass.”


Samwise “Sam” Gamgee
The Two Towers
J.R.R. Tolkien

Happiness in 2025

The World Population Review’s 2025 data finds that citizens of nations with more socialistic governance—Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Sweden, Netherlands—are happiest.

The Review ranks The Unted States of America as the 24th happiest.  Folks in 23 nations, e.g., Mexico, Slovenia, Chechnya, Lithuania, Canada, United Kingdom, are happier than Americans.

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Standing tiptoe, a man loses balance,

Walking a stride, he has no pace,

Kindling himself he fails to light,

Acquiring himself forfeits his hearers,

Admiring himself, he does so alone.

Pride has never bought a man greatness

But, according to the way of life,

Brings the ills that make him unfit,

Make him unclean in the eyes of his neighbor,

And a same man will have none of them.

   The Way of Life According to Lao Tzu

   Translated by Witter Bynner

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A leader is best

When people barely know that he exists,

Not so good when people obey and acclaim him,

Worse when they despise him.

‘Fail to honor people,

They failed to honor you;’

But a good leader, who talks little,

When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,

They will all say, ‘We did this ourselves.‘

   The Way of Life According to Lao Tzu

   Translated by Witter Bynner