Sep 26, 2020, 09:00 AM – 09:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Dear Colleagues:
Because of the high level of enthusiasm for our video statements, and expression from many that this could be the most important action we could be taking as mental health professionals, I would like to open up for the greatest opportunity possible for people to sign on.
Hence, I will be standing by all of tomorrow, Sep 26, 2020, all day, 09:00 AM – 09:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
You can simply sign in during the above hours here:
Meeting ID: 680 481 4657
If I do not get on right away, feel free to text or call: (917) 328-2492.
Again, here is what we will ask you to say:
One line statement from you, your full name, credentials, and location (“XX state”).
Ex. “Signing this statement is the most critical thing I could be doing as a mental health professional today. I am Bandy Lee, psychiatrist and doctor of medicine from NY state.”
It takes only two minutes to do, and so please lend your voice to an important cause! This is a video signing of the statement below, which we will send to major TV programs for 100+ of us eventually to appear. Many have said how powerful this form of expression is, as one mental health professional after another has come on to give their one-line statement of urgency/danger, in their own voice. Let yourself be heard!
Thank you very much,
Bandy
THE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS DONALD TRUMP
In early 2017, an alarmed group of mental health professionals came together and warned against the psychological dangers of a Donald Trump presidency. We have since grown exponentially in number and present ourselves again with an urgent warning.
DONALD TRUMP is a severe, growing, and imminent danger to the United States and the international community and should be removed from presidency and candidacy for reelection for reasons of dangerousness and mental unfitness.
Along with many other travesties, his severe mental disturbances are largely responsible for the tragic way the government has terribly mishandled the Covid pandemic.
Such a person would ordinarily be required by employer or family to undergo a comprehensive mental health evaluation and be removed from authority. All military personnel with any responsibility for nuclear weapons are required to pass rigorous testing yearly.
For public welfare and not political reasons, we Psychiatrists and Mental Health Professionals are warning against greater dangers ahead.
- We started with a Conference at Yale University in 2017
- Proceedings of the Conference are found in our best-selling book THE DANGEROUS CASE OF DONALD TRUMP: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President
- Then our major Interdisciplinary Conference was broadcast on C-Span from the National Press Club in Washington in March 2019
- All have led to our PRESCRIPTION FOR SURVIVAL and recent REFILL at PrescriptionForSurvival.org
- We conclude that the great majority of deaths and suffering from Covid-19, not to mention stoking of racial tensions and violence, are the direct result of the disturbances we have repeatedly warned against
- And now the World Mental Health Coalition, an organization of thousands of mental health professionals published its full track record of letters, petitions, and conference transcripts in its 312-page book DOCUMENTS
Donald Trump should never have been allowed to so endanger the country, resulting in enormous costs of life, vast suffering, and growing social unrest. He should have been removed from office or at least influence long ago. His continuation in the Office of the Presidency threatens the wellbeing, the basic institutions, and the Constitution of the United States in ways that may have been unimaginable for the public but well-predicted within the mental health community since the beginning.
It is not too late to prevent further suffering and calamities. We urge members of the U.S. Congress and “We the People” of the United States to act to remove the dangers, as outlined in our PRESCRIPTION FOR SURVIVAL: PrescriptionForSurvival.org.