Jeb Bush might have pledged to conduct his campaign "joyfully," but it’s hard to see the modern-day presidential campaign -- months on the road, relentless attacks, kowtowing to donors -- as anything but joyless. And if you make it through all that, your prize is one of the most stressful jobs in the world. Why do they do it? To understand, Politico Magazine asked leading psychologists and psychiatrists to get inside the candidates’ heads and diagnose the urge to run. Is it narcissism? Masochism? Psychosis? Are presidential candidates just like the rest of us -- or are they just out of their minds?
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