Patti Brimberry
Jul 27, 2017 · 2 min read

Horsehockey. As a survivor of narcissistic abuse, who has taken it upon herself to read everything I could find on the disorder, including textbooks, I can tell you that if a mental health professional had refrained from warning me about this — had I had that opportunity before I was emotionally abused — I would’ve sued them on this basis. They have a “duty to warn.” This is a legal concept that extends beyond the field of psychology. For a reason. Every single thing this sociopath does can be explained on these terms — that is, if your ideology doesn’t cloud your judgment. This is so far removed from politics it’s ridiculous. Politics is just the tool this particular sociopath is using to attain the adulation he craves more than anything else in the world, except to maintain the giant false persona he’s carefully crafted over a lifetime. While underneath that persona is a miserable, insecure, disorganized, simpleton, and emotional 5 year old, who coudn’t craft a coherent “policy” if his life depended on it. Almost every tyrant in history, every dictator, authoritarian, and monster from Idi Amin, to Pol Pot, to Saddam Hussein, to Salin and all the rest were so afflicted and later diagnosed. Each proceeded to inflict their sick projections onto entire societies and populations, destroying life and the earth in their wakes to fill their need to establish superiority in compensation for their deep inadequacies — just as DT is already doing to our country. But I guess you didn’t read this paragraph: “ The real reason for breaking with the code, however, is principle. Someone in power with Malignant Narcissism is likely to get people killed, and psychologists who know this feel morally obligated to speak up. This has legal precedent in a court case called Tarasoff vs Regents, in which the murder of a woman could have been prevented if the killer’s psychotherapist had warned her or police that the man might kill her. This resulted in The Tarasoff Rule: “When a therapist determines, or pursuant to the standards of his profession, should determine, that his patient presents a serious danger of violence to another, he incurs an obligation to use reasonable care to protect the intended victim against such danger.” Your ignorance or blindness or simple naivte’ that prevents you and too many others from seeing how extreme and dangerous this man is, will be your and the country’s downfall if he is not stopped or doesn’t destroy himself with his pathological destructiveness first.

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