The president is a "narcissist." He is "paranoid." He is "bipolar."
No, not President Trump.
These labels were applied to Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon and Theodore Roosevelt, respectively. And the list goes on. John F. Kennedy had psychopathic traits, according to one academic study. And Abraham Lincoln apparently experienced suicidal depression.
"Many of our greatest politicians have had psychiatric vulnerabilities," says Ken Duckworth, a psychiatrist and medical director for the National Alliance on Mental Illness. But that didn't necessarily make them incompetent or unfit for office, he says.
No, not President Trump.
These labels were applied to Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon and Theodore Roosevelt, respectively. And the list goes on. John F. Kennedy had psychopathic traits, according to one academic study. And Abraham Lincoln apparently experienced suicidal depression.
"Many of our greatest politicians have had psychiatric vulnerabilities," says Ken Duckworth, a psychiatrist and medical director for the National Alliance on Mental Illness. But that didn't necessarily make them incompetent or unfit for office, he says.
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