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Executive functioning skills are the mental processes essential to plan, focus, remember, multitask and decision make.
They are deficient in our POTUS in relation to obvious psychopathology and potential cognitive impairment. He needs immediate assessment. 1/8
They are deficient in our POTUS in relation to obvious psychopathology and potential cognitive impairment. He needs immediate assessment. 1/8
Executive Functions:
• Impulse control/inhibition
• Emotional control/self-regulation
• Self-awareness/self-monitoring
• Working memory (verbal and nonverbal)
• Self-motivation
• Organization: Planning, prioritizing and problem solving
• Flexible thinking
2/8
• Impulse control/inhibition
• Emotional control/self-regulation
• Self-awareness/self-monitoring
• Working memory (verbal and nonverbal)
• Self-motivation
• Organization: Planning, prioritizing and problem solving
• Flexible thinking
2/8
Dysfunctional executive functioning is generally evidenced clinically by impulsive, hyperactive, disorganized, & aggressive behavior. This is consistent with narcissistic & sociopathic personality disorders under stress & risk of exposure, & in organic brain syndromes/dementia.
General & specific overlapping red flags:
- inattention, inability to focus for more than a few minutes.
- inability to conceptualize and understand complex issues from multiple perspectives.
- reduces complex issues to rudimentary basics
- needs information provided graphically
- inattention, inability to focus for more than a few minutes.
- inability to conceptualize and understand complex issues from multiple perspectives.
- reduces complex issues to rudimentary basics
- needs information provided graphically
- impoverished, incoherent language
- limited set of familiar responses using habitual phrases and slogans: “Many people say” “We’re going to see”
- false conclusions due to inability to assimilate information: wind turbines cause cancer, vaccines cause autism.
5/8
- limited set of familiar responses using habitual phrases and slogans: “Many people say” “We’re going to see”
- false conclusions due to inability to assimilate information: wind turbines cause cancer, vaccines cause autism.
5/8
- misspeaking makes, titles, locations
- impulsive, random tweeting
- Difficultly with ADLs (activities of daily living):
• reported to be scared of stairs
• holding bottle/glass
• drinking water
• inability to find limo right in front of him
6/8
- impulsive, random tweeting
- Difficultly with ADLs (activities of daily living):
• reported to be scared of stairs
• holding bottle/glass
• drinking water
• inability to find limo right in front of him
6/8
• needed redirection to pay attention to screen at G20
• needed redirection to stay on stage at event and follow protocols.
• can’t collapse his own umbrella
This list is off the top of my head and based on observations only and in no means clinically comprehensive. 7/8
• needed redirection to stay on stage at event and follow protocols.
• can’t collapse his own umbrella
This list is off the top of my head and based on observations only and in no means clinically comprehensive. 7/8
This does not cover all the clinical signs of his dangerousness. This is not even an exhaustive summary of his deficiencies in executive function cognition. He needs immediate evaluation. He’s mentally unfit & dangerous to be carrying out the duties of the Presidency. 8/8
- misspeaking names*
