We should be getting more and more disturbed here. Something is happening, and we should be concerned. If you’re a professor in this field, you have a wealth of knowledge and experience to draw on. We need to pay attention because someone speaking out like this is not an offhand statement. And who it concerns is the best, or worst, part of it. My gratitude to Raw Story:
A prominent psychiatry professor who signed a statement with 35 other medical experts raising concerns about Donald Trump’s mental fitness is now highlighting alarming changes in the president’s cognitive abilities — including what he characterizes as a dangerous linguistic regression and compulsive repetition patterns.
According to the Daily Beast, Dr. Henry David Abraham, professor of psychiatry emeritus at Tufts University School of Medicine, has spent extensive time analyzing Trump’s public appearances for signs of mental deterioration over 40 years.
His findings paint a troubling picture of declining cognitive function.
While Abraham has long characterized Trump as narcissistic and sociopathic, he believes the president is now exhibiting regression in his ability to manage language — a development he views as particularly alarming given Trump’s access to nuclear weapons, the Beast is reporting.
Okay, who has the underground bunker? Meet you there in, say, half a day? This is what it feels like after he got us started on what’s going on with Trump. If he’s regressing, oof. Seriously, with all going on these days, it seems it would be better if we were in an underground bunker. We all know Trump often goes off topic, and we‘ve watched that change just over the first part of his second term, not even going back to his first one. Or he keeps speaking, but it’s just a word salad. Or he goes into his own little world on a world stage. And so it continues.
Abraham has identified what he calls a “pathological technique of perseveration” — the compulsive repetition of verbal patterns and actions. Trump has increasingly returned to the same lines attacking political opponents and repeatedly touting his own cognitive test performance, among other self-congratulatory claims.
Abraham explained that such repetitive speech patterns indicate serious cognitive problems.
“People perseverate because they can’t think of anything else to say, because they’re cognitively impaired, or they perseverate because their emotional motor is stuck in high gear,” he said.
Abraham noted that Trump’s speeches have become shorter while exhibiting increased repetition — a troubling combination. “In the last five to 10 years, he has planted red flags of concern again and again and again, and they’ve clustered,” Abraham observed.
We know exactly what he means. We’ve had to suffer through such things. The “aced my cognitive tests” is ongoing and getting worse. He’s definitely more temperamental and less controlled. Example? How about how he treats all reporters, and he’s worse with the females. At least the latest one was fairly calm with “you are a bad person.” Heck, how about the “dancing” at his rallies? That was just embarrassing, and he didn’t seem to notice. We could make quite a list of strange things. Heh.
The psychiatrist also documented instances of verbal confusion and disorientation. Earlier this year, Trump repeatedly mixed up Greenland and Iceland during a single speech — a linguistic failing that Abraham views as symptomatic of deeper cognitive issues, according to the report.
Beyond linguistic problems, Abraham said Trump has exhibited escalating signs of rage, poor impulse control, and what appear to be manic episodes — particularly nocturnal social media binges where Trump posts 100-200 times in a single night.
Abraham emphasized that national security must take precedence over presidential privacy regarding medical records.
“I think what we’re missing in this whole story is medical transparency.
The safety of the country and the world has to be given a higher priority than whether or not the president has the right of confidentiality to his medical records,” Abraham warned.
So, what do you think? Should we run for a bunker? Or, do we have time to make one? Silliness aside, Trump is losing his mind and getting worse. We can see it. Things we used to brush aside are now relevant because he’s going downhill fast. This report was signed by 36 medical professionals. Thirty-six. That’s not a small number. They’ve come out and stated this in public. Trump’s doctors are apparently *not* going to do anything about him. His ‘cabinet’ won’t do anything. Congress won’t do anything. So, we’ll sit together and watch our country ‘burn’.
See you soon!
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