Mental Health Professionals Discussion On Trump's Mental Health

Obviously, Pres. Donald Trump's victory and his way of handling things, speaking, and overall acts have got a number of mental health professionals and members talking about his psychiatric fitness. This concern has gotten at least 35 U.S. psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers create and sign a letter to The New York Times editor discussing the Trump's mental health.

The said signatory to The New York Times states that, albeit the ethics rule that hinders psychiatrists from providing the professional assessment about public figures who are not personally evaluated, they "believe that the grave emotional instability indicated by Mr. Trump's speech and actions makes him incapable of serving safely as president." Furthermore, over 20,000 signatures were collected from several petitions, such as Change.Org which was started by Dr. John Garner, have called for the removal of the president as he is mentally ill and incapable of performing the duties.

As a response to the said efforts, an elderly psychiatrist from Duke University School of Medicine named Allen Frances has written a separate letter to the Times accusing attempts to diagnose Trump as mentally ill. He describes that the U.S. president misses the "distress and impairment required to diagnose a mental illness," telling that mental illness and bad behavior are two different things.

Psychiatric name-calling is a misguided way of countering Mr. Trump's attack on democracy," Frances said. However, he said that Trump can be accused of his incompetence, ignorance, impulsivity, and quest for dictatorial powers.Despite this, Scientific American reported that the Times' mental health experts are obliged to speak out, as psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist Susan Radant, fears that too many things are at stake when they keep silent for a long time. Furthermore, she asked both citizens and the Congress to step in before U.S. and the entire world are permanently deteriorated.