America’s Presidential Psychiatric Emergency and the Closing Window

Lawmakers Now Owe It to the Public to Act

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Now that my weekly series on Meidas Touch’s “Weekend Show” with Anthony Davis has concluded, I feel the need to rebegin updates on what I have been calling, “the Presidential Psychiatric Emergency.” As many now see, and as we have warned, the jubilance over his apparent acceptance of election results and his early conciliatory attitude was unfortunately misplaced. His fixation on his arch and his ballroom illustrates the degree of denial, and therefore the degree of pain, which will soon manifest as grievance, vengeance, and rage. I have said we have a narrow window from which to act, and that window is quickly closing: the appointment of Stephen Miller as White House chief of staff can be seen as a declaration of war against the American people who, in his mind, betrayed him.

To paraphrase Albert Einstein, we cannot solve our problems with the same mindset that created them. While the midterm elections give a glimmer of great hope, the continual placement of the nation at existential risk, so that people must vote for mediocrity to safeguard their survival in a two-party system, should no longer be tolerated. I have seen from within how the two parties work in tandem to shortchange the public, and this cannot continue. What can change? The new Congress must:

1. Face reality for what it is.
2. Meet it with a response commensurate to the need.

This means that we do not pretend that a mental health crisis does not exist; it is currently the core problem that underlies all other urgent, existential problems. No matter how exigent or expedient other political “solutions” may seem, they will be undermined, as long as the core problem persists.

We have a presidential psychiatric emergency staring us in the face—and, as I said, it will take courage, integrity, and clarity to confront it, but confront it we must. The alternative is to consign the United States to decades of destruction, if recoverable at all.

Leadership means that we do not wait until the public “turns around”—when the people are too traumatized and victimized to do so effectively—or, worse, continue to stand by even as the public clamors for action. Leadership entails assessing the core problem, consulting the appropriate experts (mental health experts are the appropriate experts during a mental health crisis), and educating the public where necessary (and not always following what is popular).

Waiting for January to act would be too late. The Democratic Party has received its mandate, and no one will blame it for dropping everything and addressing the foremost emergency at hand. It can hold hearings on mental capacity now. It could assess and curtail the possibility of rash action in anticipation of the Congressional transfer of power, such as inciting an insurrection, declaring martial law, causing pandemonium to distract (we cannot forget that World War III was started to distract from the Epstein files), or deciding to destroy humanity, because he feels that he is going down. No restraint will exist unless it comes from without.

The Congress says it is concerned about corruption. It should consider the extraordinary corruption of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) when it changed its ethics guidelines in 2017 to suit an incoming government and the aggressive targeting of any mental health expert who would warn against a looming public mental health crisis. We are in an exponentially more difficult situation as a result of its actions, for which it received unprecedented federal funding, allowing it to buy a brand new building on Capitol Hill and to move its headquarters there. The APA was subject to hearings in 2008 in the U.S. Senate for receiving almost a third of its revenue from pharmaceutical companies—which also funded Jeffrey Lieberman’s Nazi-like torture experiments—and this is arguably infinitely worse. Hearings can help educate the public about how much harm corruption can cause, when a supposed medical organization commits what I have called, “the greatest act of medical malpractice in the nation’s history”—through the silencing of all mental health experts, which devastated Congress members’ ability to remove a mentally-impaired president.

Now, even if he were removed today, the president has already caused endless wars around the globe, an unprecedented nuclear arms race, irreversible ecological destruction and climate catastrophe, the dismantling of future pandemic prevention, and the downfall of the American dollar and the global economy. We may never recover. Still, at minimum, we should not allow this to continue.

Decades of clinical experience has shown us that the external state is an exact, even measurable, outpicturing of the internal state. We have seen Donald Trump’s dangerous mental state manifest socially, culturally, and geopolitically. Unless this issue is dealt with—as he is still president—all the rest will be cosmetic fixes, and the consequences will only grow more dire.

I have said many times that I am a barometer of the nation’s ability to heal. This is the flipside of my saying in 2018, upon the APA’s capitulation, that if mental health experts are silenced, then nothing else will work. And if the APA chooses to become an arm of the state, then all other institutions will also succumb. This is exactly what happened. When the nation consults me—or any of my most eminent colleagues in the country—true healing will become possible.

Ben Meiselas of Meidas Touch caught me late in the evening for an interview, and I was summoned early in the morning by Times Radio. From Congress, however, there has been nothing so far.

The Independent reported:

President Donald Trump’s response to the shellacking handed to his party in America’s midterm elections has, at the time of writing, been fairly measured…. Now, though, is the time to contain him; otherwise, he may be in danger of heaping unprecedented destruction….
That’s the conclusion of Dr. Bandy X. Lee, a forensic psychiatrist and violence expert who … was one of a group of 36 leading U.S. mental health experts who issued a statement calling for Trump’s removal from office….
In an abusive relationship, the most dangerous time for a woman is the moment she tries to leave her violent partner….
Lee told The Independent that since the first time Trump was sworn into office in January 2017, she’s been concerned about his unfettered access to nuclear weapons. “He is extremely attracted to them without understanding their ramifications: for him, they are just bigger bombs,” she said. “However, there is no scenario in which the use of nuclear weapons would not lead to a catastrophic end to life as we know it.”

Announcement:

Now is a critical time when the people have spoken; now, their representatives must respond. While Dr. Bandy X. Lee’s weekly appearances on Meidas Touch, on “The Weekend Show,” have ended, she will continue to hold her interactive sessions for the “Project for Human Survival” meetings, every Wednesday. The next meeting will be November 11, 2026, at 8 p.m. EST (please note the changing times, to accommodate speakers of various time zones). Paid subscribers will receive a link an hour before (paid subscriptions are for participant protection; please contact Dr. Lee if you cannot afford a subscription but would like to attend).