Today In Mental "Health" & The First Amendment

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'It's All Very Scientific': Is The Government Going To Declare 'Trump Derangement Syndrome' A 'Diagnosable Mental Illness'?

Sounds like Soviet "psychiatry" to this reporter.Every accusation, &c. Read this & then decide who needs psychiatric help.

"Each level has approximately 8 to 10 symptoms and you have to have certain number in each category to be able to qualify," she explained. "For example, a mild case would include people who throw shoes at the television set when Trump comes on, or have a meltdown when they hear a song that is associated with Trump, like YMCA. The moderates—and there are many more symptoms, I can't really get into all of them—but for moderates, TDS has taken over more of their lives. And for severe, it's even at a higher level."

Lieberman claimed that people like Rosie O'Donnell, Mary Trump, Jimmy Kimmel, "would-be assassins," and "people who attack Teslas because of Elon Musk" would be classified as having "severe TDS" and therefore require psychotherapy so they can "work on the problems in them that make them hate Trump."

"For men, it has to do with men who have low self-esteem and they are envious of Trump because Trump has the stereotypically all the things that a man—an alpha male—would and should have," Lieberman said. "He has a great education, Ivy League education. He was successful before he became president. He's become president two times. He has a gorgeous wife. He has a wonderful family. All of these things that these men who have low self-esteem either don't have or don't have enough of or don't feel like they'll ever have. So somehow Trump is to blame for their not having these things."

"The women who have TDS are women who have problems with men, starting with the pussy hats," she continued. "So you would work with them to help them; Trump would be the man, like the worst man, the man that they would imagine it would be worse to be married to, because he's an alpha male and because that's what they can't deal with. So you would work with them to try to get them to not have so much hatred towards men, perhaps have good relationships with men. And so you're really not working on the [hatred toward Trump] because if you get into a conversation about like, 'Why do you hate Trump?' They tell you, 'Well, he does this, and this, and this.' It's not about that. Whatever they would say, whatever executive orders they might say, or whatever political thing or sociological thing, whatever they would say that he did that is bad; it's not really about that. It's about their feelings towards him as a man."

Just a guess, but no one "throw[s] shoes at the television set when Trump comes on"; simply changing the channel seems much more likely. Those in the know find it highly amusing that Lumpy is associated w/ "YMCA".

And are you still on about the pussy hats? Naturally, because it's all explained by S-E-X. Specifically, sexual confusion, after all, every sane & manly man wants to be just like "alpha-male" Trump, & apparently every woman should want to have sex w/ Trump, & not worry about all the stupid, vicious &/or evil things he does & says.

Dr. Lieberman seems awfully well-educated to be spewing inanities like this, but we see she enjoys attention, & writing books.

• Bad Girls: Why Men Love Them & How Good Girls Can Learn Their Secrets, Cogito Media 2010
• Bad Boys: Why We Love Them, How to Live with Them & When to Leave Them

What does ol' Doc Freud have to say about attention-seeking? And seeking toxic relationships. Might have an issue or two herself.