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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A personality disorder is not the same as a mental illness. 
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They are - all classified in the DSM-V, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, aka Bible of psychiatrists.
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Whether they are in the DSM-V is beside the point. 
Generally, personality disorders indicate permanent aspects of an individual's personality and behavior and also, I would say, a greater level of responsibility for one's actions than mental illness entails (and the DSM-V distinguishes between personality disorders and related mental illnesses). I think it would be very hard to make a 25th Amendment case because[b] I don't think Trump today is any different than the Trump who was elected[/b], and I think there would be a very serious Constitutional crisis if anyone attempted to make a claim that a legitimate winner of the election who has not become any more impaired than when he was properly elected (on the face of things)[b] is now considered unfit.[/b] I do think it is a political problem which requires a political solution, NOT the 25th. [/quote]

I think the Trump today has demonstrated unfitness to an extent that he had not when he was elected. I do not know whether that was because something developed ex post facto or revealed itself ex post facto, but the situation is different, regardless of whether the man is different.[/quote]

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