If you have pseudobulbar affect, you'll experience emotions normally, but you'll sometimes express them in an exaggerated or inappropriate way. As a result, the condition can be embarrassing and disruptive to your daily life.
Pseudobulbar affect often goes undiagnosed or is mistaken for mood disorders. Once diagnosed, however, pseudobulbar affect can be managed with medication.
The symptoms are, “The primary sign of pseudobulbar affect (PBA) is frequent, involuntary and uncontrollable outbursts of crying or laughing that are exaggerated or not connected to your emotional state. Laughter often turns to tears. Your mood will appear normal between episodes, which can occur at any time. Crying appears to be a more common sign of PBA than laughing.”
Do we need to have a psychology degree to say that this looks like what Kamala has been displaying to all of us in her campaign.
Armchair psychiatry may be no more than a stab at trying to figure out Kamala’s laugh but watching her laugh voraciously at the most inappropriate times does make it look, as she has said, that she just fell out of a coconut tree.
As the dangers of a new world war encroach upon us with each passing day, do we want to put a laughing hyena in charge of the nuclear buttons?
We may not know if she has pseudobulbar, but we are sure very few humans laugh so much. We are also sure that chickens only cackle a lot when they are about to lay an egg.
Her failing campaign may be the egg just laid--you decide.