Some Democrat party members are so concerned about the US President’s state of mind, they are reaching out to mental health experts.
“It’s one thing from my non-professional, non-clinical standpoint [to]believe that someone does not have the capacity to do the job, it’s another thing to talk to experts and [those]who can deal with mental psychosis on a daily basis, so I wanted to hear from them,” Californian Democrat Jackie Speier told BuzzFeed News.
Half a dozen politicians have also contacted Yale psychiatry professor Bandy Lee. She authored a book called ‘The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump’ which included 27 mental health experts’ assessments of the President.
Lee says that the book’s authors are “not trying to break the Goldwater Rule” put forward by the American Psychiatric Association which prevents mental health professionals from diagnosing public figures without examining them in person.
However “it doesn’t take a psychiatrist to notice that our president is mentally compromised,” she writes in the book.
But other experts have come forward to say that speculating on the President’s state of mind only stigmatises mental illness.
“The solution to Trump is not psychological name-calling, it’s political action,” former Duke University psychiatry chair Allen Frances said.
We agree – less talk and more action.
