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As you’ve no doubt heard, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had been banned from using the words "vulnerable," "science-based," "fetus," "transgender," "diversity," "entitlement," and, my particular favorite, "evidence-based.”
Personal Bias Should Not Rule Health Policy
A lot of attention has been focused on whether President Trump and his supporters and family members connived with the Russians to win the presidency.
For that matter, censorship and denial of science would be following in the steps of other world leaders who also sought to ban science in the name of ideology when it came to matters where the science did not suit their politics.
Donald Trump bemoans fake news. But one might think that he seems to like fake science. If there's an issue with bathrooms or healthcare coverage or admission to the armed forces for the transgendered, then mandate them out of existence. Want to impose your views on those who disagree about abortion, emergency contraception, and research on embryos? Make sure no one uses anything but the word "baby" to describe a fetus or an embryo. Tired of those who keep reminding you and anyone who will listen that coal is a hugely dirty and polluting energy source? Then no more facts or evidence allowed.
I applaud Medscape for making this exception to your usual fare of medical articles to address this public health crisis. Many commenters try to excoriate you, these two for example:
"Wow. Medscape has hit the skids too..” and "I joined medscape for credible medical science which has the potential for plenty of debate on its own without the obvious one sided political commentary that has become too common. The editorial board should be purged and replaced with people that want to report news and not advance agendas!”
When politics turns anti-science it effects the health of the nation. What else is the definition of a public health emergency.
Conflict of interest: I was one of the first mental health professionals to write about Trump being a malignant narcissist, and to publish many articles on the subject on Daily Kos: http://ift.tt/2CHD8wP
For the record, this is also from Medscape. I disagree with all of the article, but agree with many of the comments.
Excerpt: Until those next signs emerge, Trump is boasting to friends and advisers that he expects Mueller to clear him of wrongdoing in the coming weeks, according to sources familiar with the conversations. The President seems so convinced of his impending exoneration that he is telling associates Mueller will soon write a letter clearing him that Trump can brandish to Washington and the world in a bid to finally emerge from the cloud of suspicion that has loomed over the first chapter of his presidency, the sources said.
This account of how Trump and his senior staffers are privately grappling with the Russia investigation is based on interviews over the past week with nearly three dozen White House officials, lawmakers, outside advisers, friends of the President and sources familiar with the Mueller probe. It depicts a president genuinely convinced of his innocence and advisers preparing for him to explode early next year if the probe doesn't end as neatly as Trump expects.
In private conversations, Trump still speaks dismissively of the Russia investigation, referring to it as "bulls---" and proclaiming "I don't know any Russians!" multiple sources told CNN.
We’ve read much this before, but
here’s what an article in The Christian Post has to say about Trump’s fitness to serve:
This article begins noting the recent polling which showed that "Fifty-one percent of believe that Trump is "mentally unbalanced," while 44 percent said that they think the president is "mentally stable" and 5 percent said they were "not sure.” It then goes on to explain what Tony Schwartz (Art of the Deal author) and pundit Andrew Sullivan has said.
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| Click to enlarge - Note: It took him 10 minutes before his thoughts and prayers (yeah, right, like he has such human reactions) the “presidential” Tweet went out. HuffPost has a story on this. |
Duty to Warn’s Bandy Lee, editor best seller “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump” is quoted, including: "Just some of the signs that have raised red flags include: verbal aggressiveness, boasting about sexual assaults, inciting violence in others, an attraction to violence and powerful weapons and the taunting of hostile nations with nuclear power. Specific traits that are highly associated with violence include: impulsivity, recklessness, paranoia, a loose grip on reality and poor understanding of consequences, a lack of empathy and belligerence toward others, rage reactions and a constant need to demonstrate power. Such traits interfere with the ability to think rationally, to take in needed information or advice, to weigh consequences and to make sound, logical decisions based on reality,”
Where the article is different from many others posted on this website is that it presents the opinions of several prominent people who have different opinions:
Danielle Pletka, senior vice president of of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, responded by saying that she thinks Republicans are "going to keep talking privately about the president."CIA Director Mike Pompeo called such claims “absurd” interesting only because he may actually have his own suspicions about Trump’s collusion with Russia.
"But I think it serves nobody to stand up and say, 'I think the president's crazy.' He's the president of the United States. And that kind of thing is just, there's no political upside for Republicans, because then the next question is, 'Okay, you think he's crazy, you think he's on drugs, you think there's something wrong with him?'" she said. "These are all the whispers we hear in Washington. Then the next question is, 'So what are you going to do about it?' And the answer is, from them is, 'We don't want to do anything about it.'"
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| Click to enlarge - Note: It took him 10 minutes before his thoughts and prayers (yeah, right, like he has such human reactions) the “presidential” Tweet went out. HuffPost has a story on this. |
Duty to Warn’s Bandy Lee, editor best seller “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump” is quoted, including: "Just some of the signs that have raised red flags include: verbal aggressiveness, boasting about sexual assaults, inciting violence in others, an attraction to violence and powerful weapons and the taunting of hostile nations with nuclear power. Specific traits that are highly associated with violence include: impulsivity, recklessness, paranoia, a loose grip on reality and poor understanding of consequences, a lack of empathy and belligerence toward others, rage reactions and a constant need to demonstrate power. Such traits interfere with the ability to think rationally, to take in needed information or advice, to weigh consequences and to make sound, logical decisions based on reality,”
Where the article is different from many others posted on this website is that it presents the opinions of several prominent people who have different opinions:
Danielle Pletka, senior vice president of of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, responded by saying that she thinks Republicans are "going to keep talking privately about the president."CIA Director Mike Pompeo called such claims “absurd” interesting only because he may actually have his own suspicions about Trump’s collusion with Russia.
"But I think it serves nobody to stand up and say, 'I think the president's crazy.' He's the president of the United States. And that kind of thing is just, there's no political upside for Republicans, because then the next question is, 'Okay, you think he's crazy, you think he's on drugs, you think there's something wrong with him?'" she said. "These are all the whispers we hear in Washington. Then the next question is, 'So what are you going to do about it?' And the answer is, from them is, 'We don't want to do anything about it.'"
Susan Collins gave a lawyerly response when asked: "First of all, let me say my conversations with the president have given me no reason to be concerned in that regard.” In other words, she only said she hasn’t observed signs of mental illness while talking with the president.
As would be expected hard-core Trump supporters Mollie Hemingway and Peter Roff think the entire question is part of an anti-Trump conspiracy.
"It is a campaign based on anonymous leaks, so it is very hard to determine how much to take seriously," Hemingway, a senior editor at The Federalist, said. "In general, it is people who haven't accepted the reality of Donald Trump winning the election who are making this claim. ... Nobody should be evaluating each other's mental health, particularly not people who are still struggling to accept reality a year after it happened. "
Peter Roff, a contributing editor to US News & World Report, wrote in an op-ed that the claims of mental instability are seemingly part of a "consistent effort to undermine presidential legitimacy" that "has hardened the partisan divisions in the country."
Reminding us that historians are thinking of the 25th Amendment solution, here's an article from The George Washington University History News Network trying to answer this question:
When (and if) Donald J. Trump leaves office – via impeachment, criminal indictment and conviction, resignation, or the 25th amendment – Mike Pence, his Vice President will become President. Mike Pence does not have a secret agenda – he is all out there: “My Christian faith is at the very heart of who I am,” he said during one of the vice presidential debates. And he means that. Welcome to Christian Theocracy.
Editorial Comment:
The Daily Beast begins this article,
Frustrated Donald Trump Plots Counterpunches and Talks Lawsuits
"President Donald Trump increasingly believes that he is surrounded by enemies intent on his political destruction."This could be written about many or most presidents in the modern era, in fact, probably most since the Founding Fathers. Certainly Obama, Bush 1 and 2, and Clinton were surrounded by enemies bent on their political destruction. This comes with the job.
Most Duty to Warn therapists think that Trump, at the very, least resides in the shadow area between having a persecution complex, not a particular unusual array of disturbing beliefs with insecure people, and his being close to having a delusional paranoid disorder.
The key to defining the psychiatric significance of paranoid-leaning (in the 1950’s and ’60’s we’d use the term neurotic) and a person having outright paranoid beliefs is how real the beliefs are, and how rationally a person responds to them.
If Trump is becoming paranoid to the extent that he is highly suspicious of the motives of people in his inner circle who are, in reality, totally supportive of him and just trying to giving him helpful advice he doesn’t want to hear, this moves the needle closer to the delusional disorder side.
With what shrinks call a “full-blown” paranoid delusional disorder, Trump would not only feel strong anxiety over people plotting against him, but he’d hear auditory hallucinations expressing these opinions.
In most instances a face-to-face psychological assessment would be required to determine this unless he decompensated on live-TV. All competent clinicians with experience doing diagnostic evaluations with those who might be psychotic or suffering from Parkinson’s hallucinations, dissociative disorder, or dementia are adept at picking up the signs that their patient is hearing an inner voice.
Trump is certainly prone to believing the conspiracy theories he read, or perhaps hears on the phone, from the likes of Alex Jones.
At this juncture we Duty to Warn therapists, and now experts on organic disorders such as dementia, have grave concerns about whether Trump is mentally fit to be president.
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