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I think we need to start looking more deeply at some of the possible underlying causes of such high levels of dysfunctional behaviour in Trump, Trumpism and his corporate, governmental and public supporters .

Recent neuroscience is showing that childhood trauma can activate the Amdygla to produce an oversupply of Cortisol and Adrenaline , the fight, flight or freeze hormone, sufficient to alter the neurophysiology of the growing brain so it becomes dissociated from reality and creates an alternative reality characterised by fear and anger. Trump had a severely intergenerationally transmitted child hood ,as do up to 30% of the US population in some US states, this figure from the ongoing Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) research project .

Neuroscience is also showing that these dysfunctional people do not have the necessary prefrontal cortex production of Serotonin and Dopamine to enable them to significantly engage in rational debate nor the empathy or relational capacity to hear and take in the other point of view!

This very significant percentage of brain disordered people resonate with Trumps fear and anger and thus create a self sealing bubble of an alternative reality with possibly disastrous consequences for us all. Hitler used the same dynamic according to prominent psychiatrists at the time but they did not have the benefits of modern neuroscience research

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Dr. Miklashek, a board certified psychiatrist on this page, has diagnosed Trump many times and relates his conduct to fear that he would lose his mommy at age 2, when his brother Robert was born and he is therefore emotionally immature. Terrible 2's. Consistent with your diagnosis.

I don't think he is fit to stand trial, let alone run for public office, has diarrhea of the mouth which undermines national security, and is probably a threat to himself and to others, and should be evaluated for civil commitment. https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/involuntary_civil_commitment

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