All in all, the “Duty to Warn” professionals had Trump pegged from the very beginning. This is because they were diagnosing a personality disorder, which is very different than a psychiatric diagnosis. A psychiatric issue is a disease process involving the brain and chemicals, a personality disorder is … well, something is wrong with your personality.

One actually can diagnose a personality disorder by simply listening to him day after day. And we sure did listen to him day after day. Whether on TV or by tweet, we heard from Trump every day, there was a lot of evidence to consider when it came to what sort of personality traits impact his mind and ability to lead.

Now we enter what the Duty to Warn people call the single most dangerous phase. When the narcissistic injury is shame, shame from a loss, shame from being less than perfect, shame derived by being rejected. To a narcissist, they say shame is a fate worse than death. Trump’s shame is on display for the world to see. In response to shame, the narcissist lashes out in revenge to hurt people. From Rawstory:

Narcissistic rage attacks can be deadly.  We have seen it in the tragic instances of lethal domestic violence, where a narcissistically-injured spouse kills his wife over her efforts to leave him.  We can also see it brazenly displayed in the lives of murderous tyrants, under whom those who dare give their “Dear Leader” honest feedback may pay for it with their lives.  We cannot continue to ignore the fact that we may merely be in the calm before the storm.

The calm before the storm might be right. He might still be convinced he can pull this off through the electoral college. A few days ago we noted Trump’s response to Richard Branson once, about relishing spending the rest of his life getting back at some people that hurt him and Branson saying that wasn’t a health way to live. The Duty to Warn People Agree:

How do we know this is happening in him?  We know from the way he humiliates others.  He derives satisfaction from calling others “losers” and “suckers”, precisely to deny and to distance himself from the qualities he cannot stand.  Humiliating other people is therefore one of the few pleasures in a pathological narcissist’s life—almost as good as “winning”.

In case you weren’t scared enough. Though, we are nearly certain that everyone was aware that this would be, by far, the most dangerous period of his presidency. We likely still have 10-14 days remaining where Trump might still believe that he can pull it off and still win the electoral college. If that gets cut off look out.

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Peace, y’all
Jason
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