![]() ![]() Unable to admit to himself that his talent or training might be insufficient, he blamed the Jewish members of the academy faculty for keeping him out of the art school. It caused him to fall into a deep, paranoid, delusional depression in which he spewed anti-Semitic hatred. He had delusions of omnipotence, invincibility and infallibility, violent mood swings, rages, racing thoughts and pressured speech.Īt 17, Hitler was twice rejected by the Vienna Academy of Arts. The other side of Hitler was egotistical, arrogant, grandiose, loquacious, aggressive and irritable. He survived six suicide attempts before succeeding with the seventh. He washed his hands constantly because of his phobic dread of infection. ![]() This Hitler was afraid of water, horses and the moon. His speech was hesitant, he was confused, despondent and apathetic and suffered paranoid delusions, especially about Jews. One side of Hitler was despairing, indecisive, isolated, unable to care for himself and had impaired concentration and memory. Those who knew or studied Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin offer vivid descriptions of the paranoid, delusional form of manic depressive order both men experienced. ![]() ![]() While mental health professionals and patients yearn to see mental illness destigmatized, it is contrary to society's interests to ignore or minimize the role of emotional disorders in bigotry, hate crimes, and genocide.Ĭonsider the perpetrators of the most terrible hate crimes in history. ![]()
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