Bush's Mental State Raises Serious Questions

[norml]

Bush's Mental State Raises Serious Questions
Posted: 10/31
From: UniOrb



With his job-approval ratings drastically dropping for handling domestic woes and the increasingly unpopular Iraq war, President Bush nevertheless persists on “staying the course” — disconnected from reality. Mr. Bush’s display of inconsistencies, indifference, and denial to the deteriorating circumstances of America — domestically and internationally — raises serious questions about his mental state and his abilities to continue as a leader of a nation.

According to his book, Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President (New York: HarperCollins, 2004), and two subsequent interviews on July 26, 2004 and Jan. 20, 2005 with Executive Intelligence Review, Dr. Justin Frank presented an alarming revelation — Bush has multiple mental illnesses. Once headed the Washington Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility, Dr. Frank is a leading psychoanalyst who teaches at George Washington University Medical Center. In 2002, he became concerned about Bush’s abnormal behavior. Using applied psychoanalysis, a scientific method of studying historical figures and foreign leaders, Dr. Frank reached his conclusions based on massive amounts of public documentation — autobiographical and biographical accounts, public video footage of the President, and statements by Bush’s associates and relatives. This is the first case study of applied psychoanalysis on a sitting president.

Dr. Frank diagnosed the President suffering from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD); an Oedipal Complex; untreated and uncured alcoholism (“dry drunk"); paranoia; sadism; psychical reality; and a megalomania complex. He keenly observed that Bush throughout his entire life has been struggling to manage his anxiety. It is through various ways of managing anxiety that Bush has revealed his psychoses. Dr. Frank explained, “…<1> first to manage anxiety is through alcohol. But, by being a born-again Christian, <2> he can also manage anxiety by being connected to God, by feeling that he'll be saved in any kind of a rapture, by feeling that he's always on the side of the Good…<3> to make other people anxious, so he can project his anxiety into the rest of us…<4> to simplify things; to divide the world, his own inner world, into good and bad, into black and white…<5> to be cruel to other people, by making them anxious, and by gratifying your own sense of power to compensate for feeling helpless…<6> to become detached from the consequences of his behavior.”

Erratic Behavior

White House aides have been increasingly worried about Bush’s wide mood swings and tirades. They report obscene outbursts, cancelled meetings and a shrinking number of aides who have direct access to Bush. According to Capitol Hill Blue, Col. Richard J. Tubb, the White House physician, has prescribed anti-depressant drugs for Bush to control his erratic behavior, depression and paranoia.


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[Lancer]

1. I don't dispute any of this.

Personally, I'm a recovering alcoholic for 7 1/2 years, and am on several meds for bipolar. I wonder what they're giving *? If he's mixing them with alcohol, no wonder we're in the fix we're in.

[wakeme2008]

2. I for one think he is still drinking

ONLY gave up the "hard stuff" and now drinks Lone Star Beer.

[Vanje]

5. He's not a dry drunk

He's an active raging out-of-control alcoholic.

[Alcibiades]

3. Dr. Justin Frank is psychodynamic

That's the school of psychology founded by Freud, in case you're interested. Yes, most of them still believe the kooky things Freud believed.

And, of course, there's the idea that you can make a psychiatric diagnosis without, say, having actually met the patient. I refer you to Monty Python's Psychiatrist Milkman sketch:


(Cut to a psychiatrist called Dr Cream in his office.)

Dr Cream: I would like to take this opportunity of complaining about the way in which these shows are continually portraying psychiatrists who make pat diagnoses of patients' problems without first obtaining their full medical history.

(Cut back to milkman with doctor.)

Milkman: (handing over yogurt) Mind you, that's just a pat diagnosis made without first obtaining your full medical history.


On edit: Not that Dr. Frank isn't right, of course.

[0007]

8. Streak of Sadism need no personal introductions

"Although Bush often portrayed himself as a compassionate conservative, his actions have proven otherwise — indifference to human suffering. When he was a child, he used firecrackers to explode frogs. At the annual Radio and Television Correspondents Dinner in March 2003, Bush made jokes about the failure to find the weapons of mass destruction, while tens of thousands of Iraqis and a thousand American soldiers died by his lies about WMD. Although the Pentagon tried to pin the sadistic tortures at Abu Ghraib on a handful of undisciplined soldiers, it’s now obvious that Bush, as the Commander-in-Chief, had approved the systematic brutal tortures to be carried out in prisons throughout Afghanistan, Iraq and in Guantanamo Bay. More recently, the U.S. Senate approved 90-9 a bill banning military and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to use torture, nevertheless, a presidential waiver has been proposed in that bill to allow the CIA to continue to do so on foreign detainees in U.S. custody outside the United States.

[grasswire]

12. Reportedly...

...the CIA and other intelligence agencies routinely do psychological workups of high-profile targets without conducting interviews. It's a valid technique. No one doing such a workup is going to be conducting therapy, of course.

Heck, I knew from the first week of Bush's presidential campaign that the man suffers from Narcissistic Personality Disorder. And I'm just a casual observer.

[Alcibiades]

13. Sure, but

Dr. Frank diagnoses him with an Oedipal Complex. I mean, have you SEEN Barbara Bush? Kooky.

[grasswire]

14. oh good lord

He didn't get the Oedipal complex AFTER she lost her looks at age 50 or so.

His powerful and successful father was absent. His depressed mother needed him to cheer her and made him feel special. The dysfunction was at high tide during his formative years. Classic, textbook.

[savemefromdumbya]

4. If he read this site

he would jump off a cliff

[Erika]

6. He is totally out of touch with reality

and his obsession to get out of Washington shows it. He doesn't want our world. He wants his T Ball court and baseball. The man is lost.

[The HL]

7. Bush is back on Cocaine

Hey,
Check out the new Political Comic at The Hollywood Liberal

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Heres one of the 8 parts


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Its called. Cocaine Cowboy

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Thank You

[11cents]

9. "Executive Intelligence Review" = LaRouche

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

15. Yeah, that was the first thing I spied

[indepat]

10. None of these all-too-apparent disorders matters a whit to the idolatrous

and faithful ideologues and true-believers.

[paparush]

11. I heard him making the SCOTUS Announcement this morning-

The guy can hardly F#cking talk! My god! The Repugs must be so embarrased by Bush**. His brain is pickeled. I think he's got tardive dyskinesia from antipsychotic meds. He stutters...he stalls...he grinds to a wince-inducing halt. He loses his train of thought. Possibly Tartive Dementia. He shouldn't be issued a driver's license, much less the nukular 'football'.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

16. Sorry, but this is just silly

Aside from relying on incredibly dubious sources (Capitol Hill Blue) & the credibility of an author (Freudian or not) who's willing to give interviews to a cult, this trivializes the very real subject of mental illness.

[norml]

17. Nora Ephron: What's Eating George Bush?

Nora Ephron: What's Eating George Bush?
Mon Oct 31,11:09 PM ET


I'm sorry to have to return to what continues to be, for me, the Rosebud event of the second Bush term, but since I live in New York and am free from the kind of facts and "inside information" that burden most people who write about politics, I keep thinking about the day the plane flew into the airspace while the President rode his bicycle.

As you may recall, on May 11, 2005, a small plane made an unauthorized detour into the air space over the nation's Capitol, setting off a red alert. The Secret Service evacuated Dick Cheney and rushed Laura Bush to a bunker in the White House. The President was not there. He was off riding his bicycle in Beltsville, Maryland, and the Secret Service didn't notify him about the incident until it was over. At the time they claimed they didn't want to disturb his bicycle ride. It's my theory that this incident was one of the reasons for the rift between Bush and Cheney -- a rift, I'm proud to say, that I was one of the first to point out (on the Huffington Post), on the basis of no information whatsoever, and which now turns out (according to this week's Newsweek) to be absolutely true.

Emboldened by the success of this deduction, I would like to ask another question that I've been wondering about for some time: What's wrong with the president? Is he fighting depression? Is he being medicated in some way that isn't quite working? What's up? I even bought a copy of one of the supermarket tabloids that alleged he'd started drinking again, but the article (like all articles in supermarket tabloids) was extremely disappointing; even the over-exciting picture of the President on the front page, holding a glass of wine, turned out to be an old irrelevant photograph of him making a toast at some banquet; there was no real evidence in the article that he was back on the sauce.

But I've been wondering about what's going on with W ever since he emerged from his bizarre groundhog-like vacation and responded to Hurricane Katrina as if he were under water. He had no affect at all. He was almost robotic. His meager vocabulary seemed to have shrunk even further. He conveyed no feeling for the victims -- and this was early on, way before anyone realized how many poor people were involved. It was strange. What's so hard about cranking yourself up for hurricane victims, especially when you think they're mostly white people who have lost their second homes on the Gulf Coast?


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