manipulating or exploiting people

repeatedly violating others’ rights

chronic lying

aggression or cruelty

lack of guilt after harming people Not entire lack.

impulsive/risky behavior

"...psychiatrists and authors Dr. Robert Jay Lifton and Dr. Bandy Lee, among others, felt a duty to warn the country about dangerous possibilities stemming from a man who lacked the mental fitness to be president. With Dr. Lee as editor, they joined with other experts to publish The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Professionals Assess a President. The book went on to become an instant number one bestseller in 2017 and a second edition added ten additional chapters."

Prologue, by Judith Lewis Herman, M.D., and Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M.Div.

“A man can be both evil and mentally compromised – which is a more frightening proposition. Power not only corrupts but also magnifies existing psychopathologies, even as it creates new ones. Fostered by the flattery of underlings and the chants of crowds, a political leader’s grandiosity may morph into grotesque delusions of grandeur. Sociopathic traits may be amplified as the leader discovers that he can violate the norms of civil society and even commit crimes with impunity. And the leader who rules through fear, lies, and betrayal may become increasingly isolated and paranoid, as the loyalty of even his closest confidants must forever be suspect.” (p. 7)

I'm trying attempting to be here for someone who's hurting

N crying but it's harder than I thought.

For someone with no sympathy & empathy doing this is exhausting and extremely hard.

I can't take all the crying seriously.