Bandy, I'm relieved to know that the NYTimes is coming around to recognizing the danger of someone like TFG...much too little and much too late, but maybe better late than never. I wonder if the silencing of you and your colleagues had to do with issues of misogyny, racism, and a knee-jerk reaction to what got interpreted as a threat to White Male Supremacy. It's no credit to most of the decision-makers in the media that they succumbed to the suppressive influence of the APA.
These last 8 years have been a master-class in the intersection of psychopathology, dangerousness, and politics, plus an exercise for the knowledgable among us, in persistence. It's only by our persistence that a percentage of the untrained public, including those in the media, have come to understand TFG's behavior as evidence of a disordered mind that is organized around a dangerous drive toward absolute power and revenge. I believe that educating the public in all the ways that we can, and continuing to call for psychological examinations, not just "cognitive" exams, for everyone running for high office, is essential in a world that is drifting toward unparalleled catastrophe.
You've been a guiding light in this effort...we are so lucky to have you leading the way.
Hopefully, this NYT article will help prompt the American Psychiatric Association to apologize for its politicization of psychiatric expertise and inapropos, projective gaslighting of its application, as well as its grotesque mistreatment of you, Bandy. But then again, as with TrumpWorld, the professional gestalt of the psychiatric and some other guilds is riven by a shared psychotic delusion of their own.
My husband always uses the phrase "persistence overcomes resistance". (I think a therapist gave him that advice years ago 🙃). Seriously, your persistence has been resisted by people who have a "failure of imagination" when it comes to the impact of mental health with our leaders. This is sort of peripheral to this article, but the recent reports of Ronny Jackson have horrifically gone under the reporting radar. It seems he was in the White House and unfettered his prescribing or simply handing out controlled substances to widely to young and old. I read another article about Stephen Miller and his wife that sited family and friends who described them as cruel and heartless going back to early childhood. The White House was essentially an unchecked nightmare from a mental health standpoint. I have no failure of imagination for a future WH that brings those same people back.
ETERNALLY GRATEFUL for your sacrifices, personally, professionally... GRATEFUL for your INTEGRITY to speak up and out to the LIES, CORRUPTION & DANGER those in power have created... You are a beacon of hope & light in a very dark, dangerous world... You are true Humanitarian and Leader... PLEASE... keep moving forward in helping Humanity.... Grateful to you beyond words... With Sincere Respect & Gratitude... The Humanitarian Party :)
As a Christian, a minister, and a student of public health, nutrition and wellness, I am optimistic about the capacity of the human mind to rise above mental impairments, with certain commonsense provisos. Homo Sapiens needs to improve from learning about brain rumors by getting them to avoiding brain tumors more than is being done to the present day. Of course, one thing that contributes to brain tumors is violence, through severe blows to the head. Boxing gloves do not succeed in removing the risk of brain buffering and tumor development, but are kinder than bare knuckles. Curiously, persons who indulge in aggressive behaviors and high cholesterol diets find the resulting damage reflecting in the tissues of the brain, which has been revealed in medical autopsies. If I recall correctly, if you'll pardon the pun, even the uniquely convoluted human cerebral cortex may become smoother through neurological degeneration... A well-balanced, plant-based, plant-rich diet, together with regular moderate exercise and early bedtimes can enable the average human to avoid brain tumors, rather than to first get them and then learn how to avoid them. Present day scientists acknowledge brain cell replacement regeneration, but surgical removal of brain tumors inevitably removes some healthy and healthier brain cells, so projection of superior intelligence as a result of brain tumor treatment and surgery is not realistic, but it can enable one's brain to remain functional and empower one to lead a normal, fulfilled life. Inasmuch as a person may age without a brain tumor, and another person may succumb to a brain tumor in twenties, thirties or forties, it would appear more accurate to focus on the neurological condition of the brain than on its subjective usage. Furthermore, by the law of averages, a significant number of persons setting and administering mental impairment tests are likely to have brain tumor treatment in their medical histories. It is probable that, for various reasons, while the average female skull is relatively delicate compared to the average male skull, tumors may generally be less prevalent in human females than in males. Social and legal rejection of violence, however, protects both female brains and the brains of males, who tend to get hit harder by male on male violence, particularly in the cycle of male on female abuse through violence. Therefore, since there is a basic human right to be mentally impaired or mentally fit, to be stupid or brilliant, it would appear more effective to gather neurological evidence in cases of persons whose mental impairments are projecting aggressively and dangerously toward society, and who engage in serial denialiasm, resulting in medical masking and inadequate treatments. Medical records can be subpoenaed by the state, not for public disclosure, but for court purposes, to corroborate evidence of mental unsuitability for power and also of various dominance complexes. The neurological approach in cases of aggressive mental unsuitability for leadership or position may be more useful for assisting individuals and society than autopsies after demise, and may inevitably result in legal tipping points pertaining to lack of credibility of treatment of denialists confronted with overwhelming psychiatric and psychological evidence of their mental incapacity to function objectively and effectively in office. Such a complementary neurological, positive rather than negative "coup de grace" approach is urgently needed, in a social context where proliferating brain tumors are routinely and increasingly handled in the manner of the helmeted mutant villain, the Unstoppable Juggernaut, of the X-men franchises. G-d bless!
We already knew from the Iraq War that newspapers exist to sell newspapers. Nothing sells newspapers like war, and so while the cases for and against war were both covered, the case for was just much more prominently highlighted, with much less skepticism. And they got their war.
I went looking for where the Times had highlighted Dr. Lee's case, her book, her collaborators, found just one article on her losing her job, no NYT book review, just a few mentions. I don't think I can even count the number of mentions that amateur neurologist Robert Kur received with his comments in a legal document; certainly above 20. Politico opined that the NYT was "not overcooking its Biden coverage", because that's a serious issue.
If so, however, they have vastly, vastly, undercooked their Trump-mental-challenges coverage. If 20+ articles on Kur's comments are appropriate, then surely about 100 on the opinions of dozens of practicing psychiatrists would be proportional.
Bandy, I'm relieved to know that the NYTimes is coming around to recognizing the danger of someone like TFG...much too little and much too late, but maybe better late than never. I wonder if the silencing of you and your colleagues had to do with issues of misogyny, racism, and a knee-jerk reaction to what got interpreted as a threat to White Male Supremacy. It's no credit to most of the decision-makers in the media that they succumbed to the suppressive influence of the APA.
These last 8 years have been a master-class in the intersection of psychopathology, dangerousness, and politics, plus an exercise for the knowledgable among us, in persistence. It's only by our persistence that a percentage of the untrained public, including those in the media, have come to understand TFG's behavior as evidence of a disordered mind that is organized around a dangerous drive toward absolute power and revenge. I believe that educating the public in all the ways that we can, and continuing to call for psychological examinations, not just "cognitive" exams, for everyone running for high office, is essential in a world that is drifting toward unparalleled catastrophe.
You've been a guiding light in this effort...we are so lucky to have you leading the way.
Hopefully, this NYT article will help prompt the American Psychiatric Association to apologize for its politicization of psychiatric expertise and inapropos, projective gaslighting of its application, as well as its grotesque mistreatment of you, Bandy. But then again, as with TrumpWorld, the professional gestalt of the psychiatric and some other guilds is riven by a shared psychotic delusion of their own.
My husband always uses the phrase "persistence overcomes resistance". (I think a therapist gave him that advice years ago 🙃). Seriously, your persistence has been resisted by people who have a "failure of imagination" when it comes to the impact of mental health with our leaders. This is sort of peripheral to this article, but the recent reports of Ronny Jackson have horrifically gone under the reporting radar. It seems he was in the White House and unfettered his prescribing or simply handing out controlled substances to widely to young and old. I read another article about Stephen Miller and his wife that sited family and friends who described them as cruel and heartless going back to early childhood. The White House was essentially an unchecked nightmare from a mental health standpoint. I have no failure of imagination for a future WH that brings those same people back.
Thank you, Dr. Lee for your leadership in this area. Keep talking, keep publishing!
Thank you Bandy for hanging in there. Think I’ll write a letter to the editor to the NYT.
ETERNALLY GRATEFUL for your sacrifices, personally, professionally... GRATEFUL for your INTEGRITY to speak up and out to the LIES, CORRUPTION & DANGER those in power have created... You are a beacon of hope & light in a very dark, dangerous world... You are true Humanitarian and Leader... PLEASE... keep moving forward in helping Humanity.... Grateful to you beyond words... With Sincere Respect & Gratitude... The Humanitarian Party :)
As a Christian, a minister, and a student of public health, nutrition and wellness, I am optimistic about the capacity of the human mind to rise above mental impairments, with certain commonsense provisos. Homo Sapiens needs to improve from learning about brain rumors by getting them to avoiding brain tumors more than is being done to the present day. Of course, one thing that contributes to brain tumors is violence, through severe blows to the head. Boxing gloves do not succeed in removing the risk of brain buffering and tumor development, but are kinder than bare knuckles. Curiously, persons who indulge in aggressive behaviors and high cholesterol diets find the resulting damage reflecting in the tissues of the brain, which has been revealed in medical autopsies. If I recall correctly, if you'll pardon the pun, even the uniquely convoluted human cerebral cortex may become smoother through neurological degeneration... A well-balanced, plant-based, plant-rich diet, together with regular moderate exercise and early bedtimes can enable the average human to avoid brain tumors, rather than to first get them and then learn how to avoid them. Present day scientists acknowledge brain cell replacement regeneration, but surgical removal of brain tumors inevitably removes some healthy and healthier brain cells, so projection of superior intelligence as a result of brain tumor treatment and surgery is not realistic, but it can enable one's brain to remain functional and empower one to lead a normal, fulfilled life. Inasmuch as a person may age without a brain tumor, and another person may succumb to a brain tumor in twenties, thirties or forties, it would appear more accurate to focus on the neurological condition of the brain than on its subjective usage. Furthermore, by the law of averages, a significant number of persons setting and administering mental impairment tests are likely to have brain tumor treatment in their medical histories. It is probable that, for various reasons, while the average female skull is relatively delicate compared to the average male skull, tumors may generally be less prevalent in human females than in males. Social and legal rejection of violence, however, protects both female brains and the brains of males, who tend to get hit harder by male on male violence, particularly in the cycle of male on female abuse through violence. Therefore, since there is a basic human right to be mentally impaired or mentally fit, to be stupid or brilliant, it would appear more effective to gather neurological evidence in cases of persons whose mental impairments are projecting aggressively and dangerously toward society, and who engage in serial denialiasm, resulting in medical masking and inadequate treatments. Medical records can be subpoenaed by the state, not for public disclosure, but for court purposes, to corroborate evidence of mental unsuitability for power and also of various dominance complexes. The neurological approach in cases of aggressive mental unsuitability for leadership or position may be more useful for assisting individuals and society than autopsies after demise, and may inevitably result in legal tipping points pertaining to lack of credibility of treatment of denialists confronted with overwhelming psychiatric and psychological evidence of their mental incapacity to function objectively and effectively in office. Such a complementary neurological, positive rather than negative "coup de grace" approach is urgently needed, in a social context where proliferating brain tumors are routinely and increasingly handled in the manner of the helmeted mutant villain, the Unstoppable Juggernaut, of the X-men franchises. G-d bless!
We already knew from the Iraq War that newspapers exist to sell newspapers. Nothing sells newspapers like war, and so while the cases for and against war were both covered, the case for was just much more prominently highlighted, with much less skepticism. And they got their war.
I went looking for where the Times had highlighted Dr. Lee's case, her book, her collaborators, found just one article on her losing her job, no NYT book review, just a few mentions. I don't think I can even count the number of mentions that amateur neurologist Robert Kur received with his comments in a legal document; certainly above 20. Politico opined that the NYT was "not overcooking its Biden coverage", because that's a serious issue.
If so, however, they have vastly, vastly, undercooked their Trump-mental-challenges coverage. If 20+ articles on Kur's comments are appropriate, then surely about 100 on the opinions of dozens of practicing psychiatrists would be proportional.