wm wrote: ↑09 Jul 2021, 21:52
Nothing wrong with a superficial understanding of subjects - you can't be a master of all trades.
True, but if people want to better understand what mental illness is and how it is so prevalent, they will need to take the time to study the subject in-depth. Society's lack of understanding in general is what allows mentally ill people like this to rise into positions of authority and power that they do not belong in.
wm wrote: ↑09 Jul 2021, 21:52
Von Below says that at some point in time he became aware that Hitler wasn't up to the task to be a leader of Germany.
That Hitler was an unworldly amateur. It happened when Hitler declared war on the US.
He served as Hitler's Luftwaffe adjutant since 1937, which would appear to be a long time spent in his company. However, von Below only knew him in a professional capacity, and met him long after he had made his transformation from a nobody to der Fürher, it would make sense that he would not catch on to his lack of reality and worldly comprehension until after the situation got out of hand. Remember up until 1941 German leadership was relying on the military excellence of other people. As Hitler kept upping the stakes with further invasions and declarations of war it was too much for even the best of Germany's auxiliary leaders to handle.
wm wrote: ↑09 Jul 2021, 21:52
Mental illness doesn't create monsters, even more, doesn't create super-intelligent monsters as Hollywood wants us to believe.
Mental illness, even psychopathy is usually an obstacle to live a normal life - like the usual illnesses doesn't help in anything.
That is correct and I wrote it at the beginning of my original post.
Volyn wrote: ↑28 Jun 2021, 05:46
I do not intend for any of this to be interpreted that mental illness makes people evil or bad, only that so many disturbed tyrants and dictators were in fact Autistic, and they all suffered from significant personality disorders as a result.
It is accurate to say that the mentally ill will face numerous obstacles throughout their lives, and Hitler definitely fit that profile having experienced so many of them until he was 25 and joined the Deutsches Heer.
In 1908, Hitler ended his friendship with August Kubizek (one of his only friends), and was homeless for years while living in Vienna. He wasted his inheritance money on frivolous activities, and he was so unemployable that he never had a real job or any vocational training. His interactions with people during that time of his life are consistently characterized as strange, odd, weird, hyperactive, sullen, withdrawn and combative with the other residents in the dormitories he lived in. Millions of other Europeans suffered the same fate due to their own mental illness, so he was not alone or remarkable for his time.
Mental illness will not make someone super-intelligent (Hitler supposedly had an above average IQ) but it will allow that person to devolve into self-destructive acts without them realizing it. In Hitler's case it is self-evident that due to his genetic pre-disposition, violent childhood upbringing, and exposure to 4 years of extreme wartime violence (twice wounded), it produced an unlikely series of events that ultimately created the world's worst dictator.
Without therapy and medicine it is highly improbable that a mentally ill person (then or today) will suddenly come to the realization what the source of their problems are. A few people can cope with their mental problems enough to lead a semi-normal life, but they constitute a select minority of those who are afflicted. Since Hitler never received any kind of therapy or help regarding his mental illness he was allowed to degenerate over time into such a depraved state of mind that his actions ultimately brought apocalyptic ruin to Germany and the rest of Europe.
There can be no doubt that Hitler was a mentally ill man, he was born with Autism and due to his horrible life he developed a series of Personality Disorders which led him to becoming a Sadist.