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Bandy X Lee, MD, MDiv

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13 Jun

I have said that “the Goldwater rule” is not a rule but a principle. As per an expert, it is not even a principle but an annotation to a principle (ironically, to better public health)! Also, the March 2017 opinion prohibiting all comment is not even binding to APA members!

A small, private trade association (with only 6% of practicing mental health professionals as members) with an annotation that no other mental health association has, and no licensing board or certifying agency can adopt (since it conflicts with the First Amendment)….

… was allowed to shut down ALL mental health professionals in national media based on its misinformation campaign that led the public to believe it was LAW applying to all professionals! Is there any wonder the Trump administration SHOWERED it with funding??

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Bandy X Lee, MD, MDiv

@BandyXLee1

4 Jun

Instead of finally recognizing that the former president is “crazy”, a fact we already expressed by level of seriousness and threat to our nation 4.5 years ago, the media should be recognizing its role in silencing experts. When experts and journalists are suppressed....

... knowledge and facts are being taken from the people, which makes self-governance impossible. Rather, the media should halt its harmful course and expose rather than comply with the APA’s criminal negligence of a deadly public health problem (that also affected the pandemic).

Have them try to argue in court that decades of real-time observations—the ACTUAL information used in assessing danger—excessive collateral information from family and other intimates, and sworn testimony by numerous coworkers DO NOT COUNT because there was no personal interview.

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Bandy X Lee, MD, MDiv

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2 Jun

We also need to ADMIT MISTAKES. Why is the NY Times still quoting a psychiatrist who rose the ranks conducting Nazi doctor-like experiments (no wonder he called us “Nazi and Soviet psychiatrists”—he was projecting!) and protected a dangerous president?
counterpunch.org/2015/05/29/who…

In his latest quote about me, he said my words were: “problematic for the profession, because it means the profession is using terms too loosely and too glibly.”
nytimes.com/2021/03/26/nyr…

Here is “loose and glib”: Jeffrey Lieberman’s clearing Donald Trump of a long list of diagnoses because: “President Trump came from a stable intact family, had a non-traumatic upbringing and normal development…. He was intelligent, gregarious....
vice.com/en/article/wjj…

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Bandy X Lee, MD, MDiv

@BandyXLee1

27 Apr

I am letting you know I have now completed 10 days of my 40-day fast for the nation. I usually do not publicize my fasts, but I will be off Twitter for a while. This will be my third 40-day fast for the nation, but perhaps the most important.

The first was in October-November 2018, when I realized I was permanently blacked out of the media, and critical intervention would depend heavily on midterm elections. The second was in April-May 2019, when I recognized the intervention we voted for was not happening in time.

Now, the pathology has so spread, it is no longer a matter of one intervention or another. Our whole nation is being engulfed in a “malignant normality,” as my long-term colleague (Robert Jay Lifton) has called it.

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Bandy X Lee, MD, MDiv

@BandyXLee1

25 Apr

I might suggest a third remedy: all decisions made by individuals who lack the mental capacity to make those decisions are null and void. Since we have proof of the former president’s lack of mental capacity, should ANY of his appointments hold?
vox.com/policy-and-pol…

It sounds provocative, but theoretically, the answer is quite straightforward: no. ALL individuals are assumed to have mental capacity unless there are signs that they do not, in which case they are referred to a mental health professional who does an evaluation....

We assembled a panel of top mental health experts from around the country when the right data became available to do such an analysis (the Mueller report). With the highest-caliber information under sworn testimony, we performed one of the most rigorous tests we have done....

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Bandy X Lee, MD, MDiv

@BandyXLee1

22 Apr

After comparing Maxine Waters to the Klu Klux Klan, in the exact way that Donald Trump called remarkably peaceful (95-97%) protesters “Antifa thugs” and violent mobs, Alan Dershowitz further proves my hypothesis:
gatestoneinstitute.org/17302/derek-ch…

There is “diagnosis from afar,” which I have always maintained cannot be done (you need medical records to rule out certain things). Then there are assessments that CAN be made from available information, such as dangerousness and unfitness, and confirmed over and over.

I do not comment on Trump followers except in how they reflect Donald Trump’s psychology: when there are signs of the prevalent “shared psychosis.” Again, “shared psychosis” is not always psychosis (it might be better to call it “shared madness” as in the French version)....

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