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10-27-24 07:51 AM |
[FOCUS] A German expert has weighed in on the debate surrounding US presidential candidate Donald Trump's possible dementia shortly before the election on November 5. Trump is showing clear signs of frontotemporal dementia, Hamburg-based behavioral neurologist Wido Nager told RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (RND). Nager is a private lecturer and court expert and was previously the neurological head of the dementia outpatient clinic at Hanover Medical School for many years. “Dementia is all too often associated, both in the USA and here in Germany, with memory disorders that are already dominant at the beginning,” said Nager. Frontotemporal dementia, on the other hand, manifests itself differently at an earlier stage, particularly through increasingly disinhibited behavior away from social norms. Due to a lack of own examinations, no one can officially pronounce a diagnosis. However, the signs that Trump is showing in this respect are now textbook.
Last week, more than 200 doctors in the USA expressed doubts about Trump's mental health in an open letter. The debate came to a head when Trump recently commented on the size of a deceased celebrity golfer's genitals, made increasingly incoherent statements at events, insulted his rival Kamala Harris in fecal language and interrupted a question-and-answer session to give an unexpected dance interlude to his favorite music for 37 minutes. Nager said that Trump was in an extremely difficult situation that you couldn't wish on anyone. The 78-year-old actually urgently needs the best possible diagnosis and treatment, but at the same time his resistance to advice is growing, especially in this phase of his illness.
Harry Segal, a lecturer at Cornell University's psychology department, expressed a similar view to Nager last week. In the USA, there has recently been a growing willingness to highlight psychiatric aspects in election campaigns. For decades, the so-called Goldwater Rule from the 1960s put the brakes on debates of this kind.
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I know this described syndrome. Its well-known and well-documented in literature. Its no propagandsitsic mumbo-jumbo.
And already during Trumps first term I pointed at the imo all too obvious indices revealing his underlying psychopathic, anti-social personality disorder, meaning a psychiatrically relevant condition by that.
And I recall from these years that I think a nice of his, a studied clinical psychologist as well if I recall correctly, also gave descriptions of her uncle in this direction, quoting the destructive relation of his to his father as the reason for his derailed personality today.
None of these new assessments surprises me, therefore.
And heck, that old sack is OLD. Old, dont you see...? Old.
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