Psychiatrist warns Trump may be ‘at significant risk for deteriorating into full-blown psychosis’

Donald Trump’s verbal outbursts and Messianic claims of being “the second coming” and “the chosen one” have once again reignited a controversy over just what exactly is wrong with the pr*sident of the United States. Not only did he compare himself to Jesus several times in a single day, Trump also had a lot of trouble with the basic enunciation of words like “obstacle” and “applicable,” called the prime minister of Denmark “nasty” for declining to sell Greenland to the U.S., and declared all Democratic American Jews “disloyal to Israel.”

Whatever Trump’s diagnosis, it’s particularly bleak and dangerous that this man is running the country and in possession of the nuclear codes, among other forms of recourse. Still, people are debating whether Trump is actually psychotic or narcissistic with delusions of grandeur or perhaps suffering from rabid dementia eating away at his brain and making him particularly irritable.

One mental health professional and contributor to the updated version of The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump argued Wednesday that Trump isn’t technically psychotic.

View the complete August 23 article by Kerry Eleveld from Daily Kos on the AlterNet website here.