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Congratulations and many thanks to Dr. Sandberg for getting his letter to the editor published in the New York Times. :-) The Times was wise to publish this letter and they should be publishing many other letters from mental health experts, including and especially Dr. Bandy Lee.

For almost a decade, Americans have been subjected to an emotionally abusive man who chronically invalidates our perceptions through projection, misdirection, and denial. This chronic invalidation of our sense of reality causes the psychological effect we call "gaslighting." He even directly told us to disbelieve our eyes and ears, that what we see and hear is not reality.

Our own mental health depends on leaders who are honest, transparent, and not wrapped up in an unconscious attempt to get us to see them as infallible.

We shouldn't tolerate this kind of emotional abuse and I hope we continue to describe it so more people can understand why they resonate when Tim Walz calls Trump "weird." Everything he says invalidates our reality. These are not just lies...they are automatic, unconscious yet purposeful attempts to alter our perceptions, especially our perception of him. This ends up being a form of mind-control that is the root cause of what Dr. Lee calls, Trump Contagion. Your beliefs, perceptions, and attitudes get slowly replaced by his. Cult followers become pre-occupied with regulating the emotional state of the cult leader; providing the mirroring and echoing responses they intuitively know he needs. We could also liken this to Stockholm syndrome.

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On the subject of mind-control, a new film on Hitler and Goebbles is coming out tomorrow:

Here is a link to the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIqeLlET_LQ

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This would be great if Times readers included MAGATs.

It would be better if Trumpetoons could read anything besides "Penthouse Forum."

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Glad to see this. I pop over occasionally to Fox News to see what that silo says about the former president. I came across a clip from Jesse Waters in which he interviewed Dr. Gad Saad, a Canadian marketing professor who was tagged as being an evolutionary psychology scientist (if I remember right). What was weird was that Dr. Saad said that "Trump Derangement Syndrome" was about a group of people who just couldn't see straight (basically) about the guy. THAT is something that also needs to come out in letters and interviews -- clarity about who's really unhinged.

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