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I'm here for the cursing! It cuts down on my own cursing!

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Our Psychological and Political Pandemic 'It's Even Worse than You Think' THE NEWSLETTER OF DR. BANDY X. LEE

🔸️Mental pathology in a president is a public matter, on which the public needs to be informed, more than anyone else, when its own safety and survival are at stake.

The more severe the mental pathology the less one will recognize that one is even ill. " Insight", or self-awareness, is one of the first things to go, when one spirals into mental pathology.

🔸️Our systems have failed to prevent his candidacy in the first place. We have yet to institute mental fitness screens for the most important position on the planet - while every other job that deals with life or death has a mental fitness evaluation as a requirement, even before one takes the position. When this is not available, the public needs to be educated about the risks as much as possible, especially when they involve conditions that elude detection, manipulate others into collusion, and resist their own management, as mental disorders do.

The American Psychiatric Association is perhaps responsible for the greatest harm to the public by a health association in U.S. history. The American Psychological Association's torture program, or the American Medical Association's blockage of universal healthcare, now pales in comparison.

By aggressively silencing conscientious mental health professionals from the public arena, the American Psychiatric Association prevented accountability for harm to the public's mental health, when science points to the critical importance of education as a public health intervention ("insight" at the societal level)--and of open discussion for the reduction of stigma.

Instead, the Association has become responsible not only for the up to 1.2 million American deaths from Covid-19, but the current psychological and political pandemic that is threatening to enable and enlarge future pandemics, to destroy democracy and the world Order, and to bring civilization to its knees.

🔸️I recall when pundits used to say during the first Trump administration: "Things are bad, but at least we know we have reached the bottom." No, there was no bottom then, nor is there now. It's much worse than you think - and the viability of our future depends on whether we will accept the rapidly-deteriorating status quo because of convenience, politeness, or a desire to keep one's pension, or will find it unacceptable. It depends on insight.

https://open.substack.com/pub/bandyxlee/p/our-psychological-and-political-pandemic?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=280c3q

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