Zoom Link: ‘Recovering from Trump Contagion – Restoring Our Collective Mental Health’

Live Session Today at 12 noon EDT / 9:00 a.m. PDT

We are at an extremely critical time, more than ever before in our lifetime.  That is why the World Mental Health Coalition is organizing a major, unique, and critical emergency conference on September 27, 2024, in the Ballroom of the National Press Club in Washington, DC. We are continuing our fundraising in order to make it as an impactful event as possible:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-expose-the-dangers-of-a-second-trump-presidency

There is an unspoken reality: if Donald Trump wins in this presidential election, it will surely be the end of American democracy and very possibly of all humankind.  Even if he does not win, there will be great dangers from which our nation will need urgently to heal.  These are the consequences mental health experts warned against since 2017, when we assembled at Yale School of Medicine and decided to publish our proceedings in the instant New York Times bestseller, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President.  Those who heeded our warnings were able to be effective: former White House Chief of Staff General John Kelly, for example, used our book as an “owner’s manual,” according to the Guardian, and possibly prevented nuclear war with North Korea!  When over fifty Congress members invited us to meet with them, they told us that their “acting politically” depended on our “educating the public medically.”

Indeed, had our warnings and “Prescriptions” been heeded, we would not have had 1.2 million American deaths from Covid-19; a violent insurrection that came too close to overturning our democracy; escalating threats of political violence; and the upending of an alliance-based World Order.  Now, we are facing greater dangers than ever but do not have the language or understanding to deal with it.

This is why the World Mental Health Coalition would like to seize this rare opportunity and imperative to highlight the issue that we have been trying to call attention to since Donald Trump’s rise to the presidency: Trump’s tremendous danger to the public because of his mental unfitness.  A failure to contain him is explainable through what I termed, “Trump Contagion” and explained in my newly-released book.  Trump Contagion has effectively led to the irrationality, illegality, and violence we see in politics today.  The media, which Trump has been able to “mesmerize” have not only been ineffective against him but have served largely to spread his symptoms.  Pundits have been unable to explain him, essentially normalizing and sanitizing him, no matter their genuine efforts to do the opposite.

We hope to remedy this impasse by bringing together top experts from all different domains to speak about the importance of mental fitness in leadership.  The year before the 2020 election, we held just such a major conference.  Our theme at that time was, “The Dangerous State of the World and the Need for Fit Leadership.”  The conference was considered important enough to be broadcast in full on C-Span.  As never before or since, we brought together thirteen highly respected experts from many different areas of expertise including psychiatry, law, political science, economics, fascism studies, journalism, climate science, and nuclear science.  The conference was convened by Dr. Bandy Lee, moderated by Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, and among other notables included Dr. Jerrold Post, the psychiatrist who established the CIA’s program for psychologically evaluating foreign national leaders who applied his experience and knowledge to warn against the dangers of Donald Trump.  Please watch this 17-minute video that opened the past conference as well as some highlights of the conference itself.

At this critical time, we cannot turn away from the most critical issue, as we have so far.  This conference will help spearhead a refocusing toward and not away from the central peril at hand.  Mental health experts know that, when a threat seems to loom too large, the solution is to face it directly and to resolve it.  And mental health experts deal with precisely these issues in their routine, everyday practice.  Ignoring it will not make it go away, as we saw after the 2020 presidential election.

I was recently invited to discuss this very issue on “The Weekend Show.”  As in every episode before, viewership exploded, with nearly a million views in less than 24 hours—demonstrating how the public is thirsting for this information).  Very significantly, I was invited, as no one else before me, to be the featured guest on this influential Meidas Touch program, continuously, every week through the election.

All this is to say, just like our unprecedented New York Times bestseller, and our becoming the number one topic of national conversation within three months of publication, the public is hungry to hear more.  Our focus may not be the central theme right now, but this does not change the reality that the issue is central, at this critical time leading up to the election, and our voice together has the potential to be historic.  Your commitment to supporting us may determine whether our nation recovers, or whether it fails for not seeking the right help at the right time for an eminently preventable condition.

Here are the links to my weekly Weekend Show appearances, with the latest at the top:

TOP Psych Reveals Trump’s DIRE MENTAL Condition

Top Psych Gives URGENT UPDATE on Trump MENTAL SPIRAL

TOP Psychiatrist BACK with MAJOR UPDATE on Trump Mental Collapse

Top Psychiatrist gives URGENT Update on Trump’s MENTAL BREAKDOWN

Announcement:

Dr. Bandy X. Lee is inviting you to a live session in a series: