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   From: un-americans@trump.org   
      
   tRUMP's mind is rotting away fron Neural Syphilis from an untreated STD.   
      
   Trump is a notorious curb crawler.   
      
   This from 2017 when doctors first diagnosed him.   
      
   "Meanwhile, a debate is raging among mental health professionals about   
   Trump’s mental state, and whether it’s unethical of them to speculate   
   publicly about someone whom they haven’t examined (doing so violates   
   psychiatrists’ code of ethics, the relevant section of which is called “the   
   Goldwater rule” because of its association with a magazine survey of   
   psychiatrists about Barry Goldwater, the Republican presidential nominee,   
   in 1964). One online petition with nearly 24,000 signatures calls for   
   Trump’s removal because he “manifests a serious mental illness that renders   
   him psychologically incapable of competently discharging the duties of   
   President.” Another with 36,000 signatures declares that “Trump appears   
   unable to control his compulsion and displays characteristics of all nine   
   criteria to officially diagnose an individual with Narcissistic Personality   
   Disorder.”   
      
   Physicians like me have also taken notice of Trump’s bizarre, volatile   
   behavior. Given our experience, we can’t help but wonder if there’s a   
   medical diagnosis to be made. After all, many medical conditions exhibit   
   their first symptoms in the form of psychiatric issues and personality   
   changes. One condition in particular is notable for doing so:   
   Neurosyphilis.   
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
   Syphilis, a sexually transmitted infection, is sometimes referred to as   
   “The Great Imposter” because of its ability to mimic many other conditions.   
   It is commonly broken down into three stages. Primary syphilis is the most   
   widely recognized form of the disease. It is characterized by the   
   development of an ulcer, usually genital, a few weeks to a few months after   
   sexual contact with an infected person. If the ulcer is not noticed, or not   
   treated, it heals on its own, and the disease enters a dormant phase. But   
   during this time, the bacteria—a spirochete called Treponema   
   pallidum—spreads throughout the body without causing any symptoms.   
      
   A secondary stage of the disease is seen in some patients weeks or months   
   later. These patients may develop a variety of systemic symptoms, such as   
   rash, fever, and swollen glands. If not treated, the infection enters a   
   prolonged latent phase, which can last decades. During this time, it is   
   asymptomatic and it is not contagious. In some cases, this is followed by a   
   tertiary stage, which is the most serious and may involve any organ in the   
   body. It is seen 10 to 30 years after the initial infection, and is best   
   known for causing neurologic and neuropsychiatric disease: Neurosyphilis.   
      
   The symptoms of neurosyphilis are protean, varying widely from one   
   individual to another. Commonly recognized symptoms include irritability,   
   loss of ability to concentrate, delusional thinking, and grandiosity.   
   Memory, insight, and judgment can become impaired. Insomnia may occur.   
   Visual problems may develop, including the inability of pupils to react to   
   the light. This, along other ocular pathology, can result in photophobia,   
   dimming of vision, and squinting. All of these things have been observed in   
   Trump. Dementia, headaches, gait disturbances. and patchy hair loss can   
   also be seen in later stages of syphilis.   
      
   Does Trump suffer from this condition? I cannot, of course, establish this   
   diagnosis from a distance. There’s a great deal of information I don’t have   
   access to, which could be critical in reaching the correct conclusion. In   
   Trump’s case, there are many diagnostic possibilities, and we have very   
   little background information because the slim medical summary he released   
   was vague, unverifiable, and possibly outdated.   
      
   On the other hand, every time I see a new patient, he or she comes to me   
   with incomplete information, or sometimes no information at all. Part of my   
   training is to ask the right questions to get a sense of what the problem   
   might be and make a list of possible diagnoses that could explain the   
   problem. This is called the “differential diagnosis.” From there,   
   additional questions, examinations, and tests are performed that narrow   
   down the list, usually to one unifying diagnosis.   
   Trump poses with Miss America contestants on his yacht in Atlantic City,   
   New Jersey, in 1988.   
   JACK KANTHAL/ASSOCIATED PRESS   
      
   Given the limited information available, neurosyphilis belongs in the   
   differential diagnosis. We know Trump was potentially exposed to syphilis   
   based on his own statements that he was sexually promiscuous in the 1980s,   
   a period when syphilis cases were rapidly increasing in the U.S. “I’ve been   
   so lucky in terms of that whole world,” he told Howard Stern in 1997,   
   referring to his dating life the decade prior. “It is a dangerous world out   
   there—it’s scary, like Vietnam. Sort of like the Vietnam era. It is my   
   personal Vietnam. I feel like a great and very brave solider.”   
      
   If indeed Trump has neurosyphilis, he’d be in famous company. Al Capone had   
   it. So did composers Frederick Delius and Franz Schubert. Many others were   
   suspected of having it, including Hitler, Mussolini, and Ivan the Terrible.   
   What might enable us to eliminate Trump from this group? Two simple blood   
   tests, in combination, can determine whether a patient has syphilis now or   
   had it in the past. If both tests are negative, then he doesn’t have   
   neurosyphilis. If one or both tests are positive, further evaluation,   
   probably including a spinal tap, would be in order.   
      
   The importance—both to Trump and the nation—of establishing or ruling out   
   this diagnosis cannot be overstated, because this infection is treatable.   
   Without treatment, however, the disease is progressive: It can make for a   
   rather ugly end to one’s life. Whether Trump emerged unscathed from his   
   “personal Vietnam” is now a question that he should explore with his   
   personal physician."   
      
      
   https://newrepublic.com/article/140702/medical-theory-donald-trumps-   
   bizarre-behavior   
      
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