CONTAGIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS

Rip Parker
2 min readJan 16, 2024

TRUMP HAS IT, THE NATION IS CATCHING IT

Over one million Americans died of Covid 19 largely because of Trump’s mental illness. Now, millions of our citizens have caught his illness.

The despicable conduct we see in him is not his illness, it is a symptom of that illness. This illness is self destructive and ends in death.

I have no name for this mental illness except the “Trump Syndrome”.

Our nation is catching this critical mental illness. There is a cure, but it depends first on the patient’s admission he is sick. No admission of illness prevents healing.

Since this illness appears to serve Trump’s fundamental personality flaw of narcissism, he has fallen in love with his illness. It is almost certain he will never see or admit he is critically ill.

The question for us all is will those among us who have caught his illness see and admit it, or will it appear to serve their personality flaws and eventually destroy them.

This illness is becoming a national illness, that is, an illness of our nation. Will enough of us who are carrying the illness recognize it and seek healing in order for our nation to survive?

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Groups of people catch psychological disorders. We have a recent explicit example in the Dallas Cowboys falling apart in their playoff game with the Packers.

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Rip Parker

Geophysicist, lawyer, mediator, student of Jung, phenomenology, semiotics