Most Paranoid Leaders of All Time!

We don't know, because nobody ever psychoanalyzed him, and offhandedly saying that somebody is a psycho is Not How It Works. I think that they had Jung look at his handwriting but that was about it.
 
bestrfcplayer said:
Wait, wasn't Hitler mentally ill to begin with???
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Actually I watched a show on the history channel called High Hitler(pun very intended) that said that he wasn't insane per se, at least in the beginning. But he did have some medical issues, similar situation as JFK in fact, which led him to many a self avowed doctor giving him many drugs to "cure" him. This led to, in combination to other problems like the losing of the war and the attempted assassination, led him to go insane by the end.
 
B-29 Bomber said:
Actually I watched a show on the history channel called High Hitler(pun very intended) that said that he wasn't insane per se, at least in the beginning. But he did have some medical issues, similar situation as JFK in fact, which led him to many a self avowed doctor giving him many drugs to "cure" him. This led to, in combination to other problems like the losing of the war and the attempted assassination, led him to go insane by the end.
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Hitler certainly had Parkinson's by the time he died, and that can affect the brain, especially when your doctor is an idiot who is slowly poisoning you with fake remedies, which was the case with Hitler. But I don't think anyone's ever proven an actual mental illness in his case.

Stalin is similar, as a few psychiatrists have looked at his behaviour as he got older and diagnosed everything from clinical paranoia - as distinct from simply being paranoid, clinical paranoia is an actual brain chemistry disorder - to a brain tumour, but since no one ever psychoanalysed him or took a look at his brain, we'll never know.
 
Idi Amin would make a good addition to the list.
 
RedRalph said:
I'm not sure any of you know what paranoid means...
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Last I heard, paranoid means an irrational fear of conspiracies against you. Could be wrong though... :rolleyes:
 
Lord Baal said:
Surely you can't argue that Kim Jong-il, Hugo Chavez and Raoul Castro are the most paranoid of all modern leaders? :mischief:
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Yeah. I think they're pipped to the post by Ahmedinejad.
 
Oh, come on, al-Assad doesn't have the level of irrational fear of Westerners taking over his country and killing him as Gaddafi does. I mean, think about it. If he did, then why are we in Libya and not Syria?
 
Virote_Considon said:
Oh, come on, al-Assad doesn't have the level of irrational fear of Westerners taking over his country and killing him as Gaddafi does. I mean, think about it. If he did, then why are we in Libya and not Syria?
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Wouldn't that make Gaddafi (who Westerners are really plotting to get rid of) less paranoid than Assad?

The Assads are paranoid about everyone: Israelis, Palestinians, Americans, Europeans, Turks, Iraqis, Iranians, Lebanese, Jordanians, Egyptians, Saudis, Sunnis, Shias, Christians, Druzes, Kurds, Alawites, each other. Hafez al-Assad sent troops against enemies as diverse as ordinary civilians, liberal dissidents, conservative dissidents, his own party members, Islamists, anti-Islamists, Israelis, Phalangists, and Saddam Hussein. Flamboyant Gaddafi pales in comparison to cold methodical Assad. Seriously.
 
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