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Amaryllis

(10,922 posts)
Fri Dec 19, 2025, 12:37 PM Friday

DAMMIT It's Not Alzheimer's! Here's Why It's A Far Worse Nightmare Scenario. This explains a lot. [View all]

The Gaslight Report by Frank George, Ph.D.
DAMMIT It's Not Alzheimer's! Here's Why It's A Far Worse Nightmare Scenario
You deserve the facts, not conjecture. Alzheimer's diminishes a person. Trump's not diminishing, he's escalating, and you need to know the frightening reason why.
Frank George, Ph.D.
Dec 07, 2025

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...someone with a big audience pushed a post claiming Trump is on an Alzheimer’s-specific infusion drug, linking it to everything from bruises to sleepiness to “confusion.” Sadly, the post is spreading.

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Trump’s symptoms are consistent with another, less common but more disruptive and, in his case horrific, disorder — Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD). There are a couple of subtypes with important distinctions, but his changes in personality and behavior, along with specific language and physical problems, are consistent with FTD variants.

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Brain regions impaired in FTD are the ones responsible for self-monitoring, impulse control, and reality-checking. The nerve cell damage caused by FTD leads to loss of function in these brain regions, and in bvFTD, the nerve cell loss is most prominent in areas that control conduct, judgment, empathy and foresight.

A key symptom found in FTD is confabulation. This is seen when a person creates confident, detailed fabrications that fill gaps without any awareness they’re false. As the brain’s frontal lobes and their networks degenerate, one effect is that a person’s ability to evaluate whether a memory is accurate weakens.

A result of confabulation, disturbing but true, is that Trump could likely “ace” a lie detector test (as opposed to a cognitive test) because he truly believes what he says.

Much more at link https://frankgeorge8675309.substack.com/p/dammit-its-not-alzheimers-heres-why-c9f?


A little bio: Dr Frank George is a PhD psychologist and neurologist who was a Senior Fellow and laboratory director at the NIH and has taught university undergraduate, graduate and medical school courses on narcissism, mental health disorders, genetics, neuroscience and addictions.
https://frankgeorge8675309.substack.com/p/the-gaslight-report-by-dr-frank-george

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Pick's Disease. Hugin Friday #1
In Trump's case - Prick's Disease relayerbob Friday #13
Absolutely. Hugin Friday #14
Ha! Reminds me of the tiny moth with the weird hairdo and microscopic peen named after T💩p OMGWTF Friday #43
Twirler moths Cirsium Friday #60
Maybe RFK should try popsdenver Friday #27
An enema cocktail, 1/3 bleach 2/3 ammonia will kill any of the germs inhabiting his rodundity. 3Hotdogs Friday #44
KABOOM! erronis Friday #64
His doctors at Walter Reed are unlikely to be charlatans. yardwork Friday #55
The same people who said Trump was the utmost best picture of health ever seen in a President? n/t Hugin Friday #59
Turns out even respected physicians Farmer-Rick Yesterday #84
Come on, cholesterol! Work your magic! SheltieLover Friday #2
Recommended. H2O Man Friday #3
Bruce Willis has FTD boston bean Friday #4
LOCK HIM UP in a padded cell. NameAlreadyTaken Friday #5
Did it ever occur to anyone that he's just an asshole? BlueTsunami2018 Friday #6
THIS!!! ☝🏼 MustBeTheBooz Friday #9
both things can be true at once stopdiggin Friday #15
The cringe is probably from the smell. 3Hotdogs Friday #46
And popsdenver Friday #29
yes, he's an asshole. An asshole with dementia that's getting worse every day LymphocyteLover Friday #32
I don't think his momma loved him either. n/t Uncle Joe Friday #37
Totally agree radical noodle Friday #41
Yep and always has been. mountain grammy Friday #47
The dementia is real. ShazzieB Friday #50
Yep. Hugin Friday #62
So true. cksmithy Friday #51
The two are not mutually exclusive. n/t returnee Friday #69
I gotta agree jfz9580m 23 hrs ago #91
I see a malignant, toxic narcissist. NewHendoLib Friday #7
He's a malignant, toxic narcissist all right. ShazzieB Friday #53
I have long maintained it was (probably or even more likely) FTD especially given his gait abnormalities hlthe2b Friday #8
Yeah, he's a veritable constellation of... Hugin Friday #12
At his age most people have a least one health condition. llmart Friday #34
I've seen FTD, my MiL had it. I can agree with this. ms liberty Friday #10
One problem can lead to another and then another and then _____________________ twodogsbarking Friday #11
Exactly. I've done enough diagnosing myself to know that it's never one thing... littlemissmartypants Friday #76
New illness attacks weak points and exacerbates the problems. twodogsbarking Friday #78
Meh MorbidButterflyTat Friday #16
Can I get an AMEN! Maru Kitteh Friday #20
Now would be good! niyad Friday #77
Is it fatal? How soon? Grim Chieftain Friday #17
When will it or something else kill him... ECL213 Friday #18
This ☝️ mountain grammy Friday #49
I'm hoping "someone" will act as a Goodfella BigmanPigman Friday #81
An old friend's bro in law had that and I was told that the BIL became a bigger and bigger A-hole everyday.. nt Exp Friday #19
Most of you know I have FTD Omaha Steve Friday #21
And, since I just checked your journal - you've been diagnosed since 2014. Ms. Toad Friday #31
The battle of the "experts" Fiendish Thingy Friday #22
Yup, shades of the Teri Schiavo fiasco. GoCubsGo Friday #35
But the author assured us their opinion wasn't conjecture EdmondDantes_ Friday #45
informed guesswork, I would argue. cab67 Yesterday #85
I know we all rage against keyboard diagnoses canetoad Friday #23
more than a couple barbtries Friday #28
The first 5 for sure. 3catwoman3 Friday #66
I never bought the dementia, people diagnosed him in his first term. I have always said Bev54 Friday #74
i think he is all of the above, barbtries Friday #75
Narcissists have no empathy. llmart Friday #36
A lot of those behaviors stem from Trump's narcissistic personality disorder. yardwork Friday #57
it's dementia. barbtries Friday #24
Don't forget canetoad Friday #40
i never forget it. barbtries Friday #42
At the core of his decline... purr-rat beauty Friday #25
He may have these diseases, it wouldn't surprise me. But, personally, I think he has a narcistic disorder (top grade) SWBTATTReg Friday #26
Confabulation is common in most dementia. Trueblue Texan Friday #30
That seems to describe his whole Friday night speech in North Carolina Farmer-Rick Yesterday #87
Trump has been a pathological liar for at least a decade Martin Eden Friday #33
FTD gfarber Friday #38
Is this disease, one that occurs over a fifty year time period? Buddyzbuddy Friday #39
It's all speculation anyway BaronChocula Friday #48
...or, he could just be an old, lying asshole. LudwigPastorius Friday #52
I love the smell of vindication in the morning. Smells like -- the 25th Amendment? Rocknation Friday #54
Something a lot of people don't realize airplaneman Friday #56
The description sounds just like what he's been doing for 15 years. Callie1979 Friday #58
One thing is for sure, he is demented. Joinfortmill Friday #61
Lobotomy. multigraincracker Friday #63
Tertiary Syphilis Deep State Witch Friday #65
I tell everyone he is syphilitic displacedvermoter Friday #80
That would explain his weird hair. ChazInAz Yesterday #89
See, I am right! displacedvermoter Yesterday #90
Would not surprise me. MorbidButterflyTat Friday #83
K&R UTUSN Friday #67
My mother Rebl2 Friday #68
He was never qualified for the office. returnee Friday #70
I've seen no changes in personality; he was, is, and ever will be an ass. nt Xipe Totec Friday #71
I tend to agree. Once a psychopath, always a psychopath. littlemissmartypants Friday #73
Forget the medical/psychological analysis. Aussie105 Friday #72
I've been saying he's got frontotemporal dementia for AGES! buzzycrumbhunger Friday #79
I just don't understand wendyb-NC Friday #82
Alzheimer's, FTD, whatever, does an exact diagnosis really matter? indusurb Yesterday #86
It's interesting that hope, anticipation, wishful thinking and progressive speculation, defacto7 Yesterday #88
I though FTD could be caused by Alzheimer's. mackdaddy 23 hrs ago #92
Having read Mary Trump's book about the family.. Trust_Reality 21 hrs ago #93
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