Trump And The Misuse Of The Mentally Ill Label

      Plenty of people are mentally ill. Even mentally healthy people may experience periods of mental illness in the course of their lives. Accusations of mental illness have been used as a way to stigmatize and diminish people. The Soviet communists were notorious in their misuse of psychiatry and psychology in order to crush dissidents.
      It is fair game to criticize Trump for his politics, his policies, his behavior and for his personality. People that enter politics open themselves up for such criticism. But going down the mentally ill road in order to go after Trump is the misuse and further stigmatization of what mental illness really means. Furthermore, plenty of mentally ill people are moral and ethical. Plenty of people considered mentally healthy are not. Mental illness in and of itself is not a determiner of a person's propensity towards violence, cruelty, and so forth. People brainwashed into believing, or that choose to believe in violent ideologies or religious ideas are a threat. Mental illness is a far different matter. Disease, whether physical or mental, is something many people have to treat if possible, or learn to live with. The stigmatization of disease or using it as an insult to diminish another human being, president or not, is misguided and harmful.