Dementia

Clinical psychologist John Gartnerpulls out his Ph.D. to tell the world what ought to be obvious. Donald J. Trump has fairly advanced and rapidly progressing dementia. Believe me, I know what dementia looks like and I don ' t need a degree in psychology to tell you, but for some inexplicable reason the world wants to turn a blind eye. The New York Times ran at least one story every day for a couple of months (maybe a slight exaggeration, but also maybe not) telling us that Joe Biden is old, and the next day that he ' s still old, and the next day that he ' s still old . . .  Every time he forgot a name or got a date wrong it was a front page story. Meanwhile, the Republican candidate is continually spewing gibberish, mixing up Nikki Haley and Nancy Pelosi, thinking that Barack Obama is president, and -- oh heck, here are a few excerpts: When Duty to Warn began in 2017, our mission as mental health professionals was to warn the world that Trump was dangerously unfit and a malignant narcissist. Practically conventional wisdom today among anyone who ’s not in the cult.  . . .After Biden won, I took off my uniform and went home. . . .But I couldn ’t believe my eyes. Day after day the press was gaslighting the American people: Pathologizing Biden’s normal signs of aging, such as forgetting names, and normalizing Trump’s flagrant signs of dementia. That false narrative was having a real impact on the polls, and no one with the right letters after ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - Category: American Health Source Type: blogs