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Anyone see the movie "The Madness of King George"? He alternated between bouts of confusion and near-violent outbursts of temper. STRANGE?

Our king don does the same thing. His violent outbursts are based on wanting to attack everyone who ever crossed him and he flies into RAGES when it doesn't happen. HORRIFIC RAGES. HE EXPLODES!

Now that is not normal. The don is definitely mad on both levels. ANGRY and CRAZY.

King George sometimes had to be subdued by putting him in a straitjacket, chaining him to a chair and forcing him to drink a cocktail of medicines. What they found when they analyzed his hair was a very great concentration of arsenic. Not that anyone was trying to kill him but apparently he took an emetic regularly that had something in it containing arsenic. Also the powdered wigs they wore at the time may also have had some arsenic in them.

Posted - February 15, 2020

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  • 16202
    Feeblemindedness was a common affliction among European royalty, due to inbreeding. They had a bad habit of intermarriage with their cousins, and the Hanoverian line was particularly susceptible due to being closely aligned with the Habsburgs, well known for mental health issues. Mad King Charles V of Spain, Joanna of Castile and indeed most of the Holy Roman Emperor's line, for example.
      February 15, 2020 2:17 AM MST
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  • 113301
    Thank you for giving dimension to my question R. I appreciate it. The difference is way back then they knew he was mad and tried their best to deal with it. The king don peeps pretend he is sane and do nothing to contain the crazy. SIGH. Happy Saturday! :)
      February 15, 2020 2:26 AM MST
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  • 3680
    King George III was NOT "mad".

    Despite popular myth reinforced by a film.

    He was not mentally-ill (what Slartibartfast dismisses as "feeble-minded" and "inbred") in any psychiatric sense.

    Although his own doctors could not have known what was actually wrong, still less treat him, they left detailed case-notes. Modern doctors have deduced from these that he suffered from a rare physical condition whose effects do include powerful mood swings, but he was not psychologically ill. All his own, 18C, physicians knew were emetics, purges, blood-letting and medicines-by-guess.

    However they also prescribed sea-bathing, which did nothing to treat the disease but also did nothing to harm him further!

    His prescribed excursion to the seaside away from the grime and smoke of London also put on the must-go-to map the town of Weymouth, or more accurately its neighbour Melcombe, which gained the Regis suffix as a reward and became as it continues, a busy seaside resort.



    Where that lesson in British history from a Briton living near the said Melcombe Regis, leaves the United States of America's present President's diagnosis and treatment, I will leave you to decide.... Feeble-mindedness so leeches, Exlax and the R. Potomac, perhaps? 
      February 17, 2020 11:08 AM MST
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  • 7280
    Unlike King George, with Trump there are no case notes that require interpretation---   

    Trump can be observed directly in real time and his psychopathy is noted by such modern doctors to whom you refer.
      February 17, 2020 12:21 PM MST
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  • 16202
    His Majesty George III most certainly did suffer from some form of mental illness - given statements from contemporary eyewitnesses, his symptoms are regarded by modern psychologists as typical of bipolar disorder and quite possibly schizophrenia as well. The condition porphyria, popular among some modern commentators, is now less well regarded - blue urine is a symptom of that condition but given that medicine at the time included treatment with gentiane, that particular symptom may have been the result of his medication rather than the affliction.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22122407
      February 20, 2020 12:19 AM MST
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