Author: Bandy X. Lee

Coronavirus Fallout: Millions of Americans Could Soon Be Experiencing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

We Can Prevent a ‘Darkest Winter’, Or We Can Remain Hostages to Trump’s Worsening Mental Condition

Let’s Call What He’s Doing With His Purposeful Bungling of COVID-19 Response What It Is—Genocide

It’s Not Just COVID-19; We’re Also Facing a Mental Health Crisis 

As His Mental State Disintegrates, He Will Take Millions of People Down with Him; ‘America First’ Will Come to Mean America Last

And He’s Bungling It Badly. The Time to Intervene is Still Now. This was our generation’s Cuban Missile Crisis.  But unlike in 1962, we do not have a president who can rise above his disagreeing brilliant advisers and make a superior, clear-headed decision.  We have the opposite: we have a president who is incapable of gathering competent advisers to begin with, but even if he were forced to, he would override all better advice to make decisions so muddied with emotional disturbances as to render them almost always the worst decisions.  The problem of mental pathology is that little is accidental—he is wired…

The Time for Preventing Even Greater Dangers from Donald Trump is Now

It’s Not Just the Coronavirus, Trump’s Mental Impairment Is the Real Public Health Problem

We Need to Protect Ourselves from Mental Health Pandemics, Not Just Physical Ones

‘Shared Psychosis’ with a Dangerous President May Be a Danger in Itself Alan Dershowitz agreed last week to be on Donald Trump’s defense team—in whatever form. So the need to highlight him as a potential personification of a wider, shared psychosis with the president has become more urgent. We may worry about blackmail, criminal co-conspiracy or other conflicts. But being incapable of representing someone because of shared symptoms, such as delusions, is a far more serious matter. Permit me first to comment on methodology. I have not considered it possible to assess any public figure other than Trump. The…