If Dr. Bandy X Lee’s goal was to make me take Yale’s psychology department even LESS seriously than I already do, congrats. Objective achieved.
Lee’s a psychiatry professor at Yale. She operates under the belief that President Trump is “unraveling” before our very eyes and therefore poses a “public health risk.” Lee isn’t the first prestigious professor to make absurd claims about Trump’s mental health. All the libs are doing it. Lee, however, believes this is urgent. She actually met with a bunch of lawmakers to discuss this in early December. She gave a presentation and everything. Don’t ask me why they gave her the time of day.
‘From a medical perspective, when we see someone unraveling like this, it’s an emergency,’ Lee told the New York Daily News. ‘We’ve never come so close in my career to this level of catastrophic violence that could be the end of humankind.’
He’s displaying “catastrophic violence” that could lead to the end of humankind? OK Lee. You lost me. I’m out.
It’s so professional, right? Practically diagnosing patients as violent, mentally ill imbeciles who will surely cause the end of mankind without even EXAMINING them? (Newsflash– psychiatrists aren’t supposed to do that.)
‘He’s very attracted to means of violence as a way of burnishing power,’ Lee said, noting the threats and attacks he has made since becoming president.
The professor previously edited the book The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President.
Also, Lee’s really worried that Republicans won’t take action. That’s her main concern.
‘What they were saying is that Republicans were also concerned [about Trump’s mental health] — possibly equally concerned, but as to whether they would act, that was a different question,’ she told the Daily News.
Think about it. We have a Yale psychiatry professor meeting with members of Congress. She’s giving presentations to convince them that Trump’s mentally ill, and those lawmakers (almost all Democrats) are giving her the time of day.
And we wonder why nothing ever gets done.
h/t Daily Mail