The More Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, Part 2

The American Psychiatric Association Must Face Up to Its Mistakes over the Trump Contagion

The true extents of the dangers of Donald Trump are difficult to quantify, for the influence of a mentally-impaired president on the mental health of society will be enormous.

Let me recount just a few of the ways:

-       All mental health effects from the Covid lockdowns and never-ending pandemic (because a pandemic is merely an epidemic gotten out of control);

-       All mental health effects from the collective “shared psychosis” he spread (symptoms, such as false beliefs, transmitting from public exposure);

-       All mental health effects from living in an unstable democracy (reflected in his unstable mind and reproduced in “mini-Trumps”);

-       All mental health effects from dwelling in a destabilized world (reflected in his paranoid mind and reproduced in the brutal dictators he empowered);

-       All mental health effects from (non-Covid-related) damages to the economy;

-       All mental health effects from the (non-Covid-related) culture of violence he fostered; and

-       All mental health effects from the silence about mental health issues inculcated throughout his presidency (in order to avoid saying, “the emperor has no clothes”).

Societal influences were bound to spread for years after the presidency, but the American Psychiatric Association (APA) abused its clout to silence the mental health experts who tried to warn.  Increasingly acting more as a face of the pharmaceutical industry, the APA has tried repeatedly to erase the psychosocial aspects of psychiatric phenomena.

The more myopic—and less prevention-based—the “treatment”, the more drugs they may sell, but this needlessly makes society sicker.

As a result of this “fertile” soil, Donald Trump (if not his “avatar”) will return with even greater vigor than when we published our 2017 public-service book, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President.  Hence, we must warn again.

Despite everything, because of a lack of appropriate interventions, Donald Trump may still actually make a comeback.  A second presidency will be worse than the first. The APA must face up to its mistakes over the Trump Contagion, which is manifesting like a psychiatric pandemic.