Friday, August 26, 2016

A Two Dollar Analysis

The American Psychiatric Association issues a warning: No psychoanalyzing Donald Trump

Oh that's rich. They promulgate their bullshit on society for a century and then warn everyone against believing it?

They're right, though. You should totally ignore them and never bother using their paradigm. Trump's impulse control problems are legendary, and their psychobabble does nothing to explain it.

But since Mr. Trump has decided to attack Hillary Clinton's health based on tripping and falling-
I will now catalog some of the visually obvious evidence of Trump's serious head infections and dental problems to explain his erratic behavior.

Despite the fact that his "doctor" claims he's in the most perfect health ever-
Donald Trump's adenoids are so infected they are the most prominent thing on his face.  I do not understand why nobody seems to notice the large swellings on either side of his nose.

Adenoid hypertrophy  (or enlarged adenoids) is the inflammation of the adenoid tonsil at the back of the nose.  Long term adenoid hypertrophy causes an obstruction of the nasal airways, and obligate mouth breathing.   This further leads to a facial growth anomaly that is called "adenoid facies".  Adenoid inflammation results in mouth breathing, which changes the shape of the face.  It causes nostril constriction, smaller upper jaws, protruding upper teeth, and long slack cheeks.

Trump has exhibited this symptom since he was a small child.
It was also more noticeable when he was a young man.
These days his whole face is saggy and he tends to sniff a lot.
He also has to push up his mentalis (chin) muscle to close his mouth.  This is the origin of the Donald Duck Face.

Now I don't think any of those things are especially alarming in themselves.  But-  Sleep Deprivation is a predictable outcome of impaired breathing. And Mr. Trump is well known for his insomnia. He proudly proclaims NO NAPS, although it's clear he googles himself until the wee hours.

There are a few relevant consequences of long term sleep deprivation:
Emotional volatility. Check.
Impaired memory. Check.
Weight gain. Check. Underneath the fancy suits, he's obese. There's no denying that.   (Unless you're his "doctor", I guess.)

On a slightly different tangent-
He has all the best words. That's a too perfect example of his verbal impairment.  He speaks in short repetitious phrases when spontaneous, and has trouble pronouncing complicated words when reading. Most people want to chalk this up to dementia, but I disagree. I think he has something much more mundane.
Dysarthria is a speech disorder resulting from injury of the motor component of the motor-speech system and is characterized by poor articulation of sounds and words. Problems occur with the muscles that help produce speech, often making it very difficult to pronounce words. It is unrelated to any problem with understanding written or spoken language, however.
I had this problem myself recently. I had some sharp spots on my teeth after dentistry, but I couldn't feel them. And after a while there were just some things I couldn't say anymore.
The weird thing was, I could hear myself saying words I didn't expect, and I would flinch and lose my train of thought.

A couple sources report that all of Mr. Trump's teeth are caps. They sure look fake.  Anyhow,  I think his new teeth don't fit his mouth, or he has some residual infection from the procedures or something. So every time he goes to say something complicated, his mouth can't complete the task, and lots of small easy words and phrases come out instead.
Yeah, he's got that face twitching and "topic switching" at the pauses too.

A couple more suspicious head symptoms-
- His nose is so inflamed that his forehead sinuses cannot drain.   The deep wrinkles between his eyebrows are caused by swollen frontal sinuses.    This usually causes nasty headaches and can trigger visual auras.    Not only does it make you look angry, it makes you feel like screaming.
- I can't tell if his hearing is impaired.  (He pays people to hear things for him.) Complications in the eustachian tubes are common with nasal infection.   If so, that would explain the paranoia.   But I suspect that's just an act.   He's so toxic, he fears nothing.

Now in themselves, most of these symptoms can be pretty benign. (I filed my teeth smooth, my mouth healed, and now I can speak properly again).   The problem comes in when a person like this doesn't understand the condition and doesn't address the underlying chronic infections.  Especially if they are sleep deprived.  This results in a cycle of ever increasing respiratory distress, stress hormones and mania.
And my extensive experience in that realm convinces me the most likely way to get out of a really manic spiral is to crash and burn.   Nobody ever slows down when they're feeling righteous.

His mania is self-evident and easily explained by just looking at his face.
In addition, his apnea, obesity and dental surgeries are high risk factors for cardiac arrest and stroke.   And they're cumulative.   If anyone is likely to have a catastrophic health event, it's him.

No psychoanalysis is required:  Donald Trump is quite obviously sick in the head.