All posts tagged "Mental Health"

Mary Trump, a clinical psychologist and President Donald Trump's niece, says her uncle's latest comments about women in the White House fit a pattern that goes back decades.

In a Substack post Wednesday, she pointed to recent Oval Office remarks in which Trump talked about women who thank him for making Washington safer.

"Now these young beautiful girls, these young, beautiful girls, these young, beautiful girls in the White House, they come in," Trump said. "Now, I'm not supposed to say beautiful, but what the hell?"...

Thirty-six prominent mental health professionals entered a stark warning published into the Congressional Record, declaring President Donald Trump mentally unfit for office and presenting "a clear and present danger" to the nation and world.

The letter, entered by Senators Whitehouse and Reed of Rhode Island on April 30, represents an unusually direct intervention by medical experts spanning conservative and liberal ideologies, multiple religions, and diverse backgrounds. The press release announcing this action was published Tuesday night (May 5).

The project is spearheaded by Dr. Henry David Abraham, an American psychiatrist and author who was a co-recipient of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize....

Alan Rusbridger, columnist and former editor of The Guardian, explained how the moment of reckoning has arrived — it's time to be honest that President Donald Trump's mental state is declining.

In a column published Saturday for The Independent, Rusbridger detailed the major changes in Trump's mental health, including his rambling and confusing speeches, heightened narcissism, and tense temperament. He even suggested that America's founding fathers could not have predicted a character like Trump would ever find power in the nation's top job.

"They could not, in their worst nightmares, conceive of a president who would be simultaneously all-powerful and mentally unwell," Rusbridger wrote. ...

A President Donald Trump ally described his concern and shock over the president's mental state, according to a report Wednesday.

Robert Fico, the Prime Minister of Slovakia, apparently made a private comment after a recent trip to Mar-a-Lago and described his surprise over Trump's disposition, Politico's PL reported.

“Slovakia’s prime minister told EU leaders at a summit last week that a meeting with Donald Trump left him shocked by the U.S. president’s state of mind, five European diplomats briefed on the conversation said," Politico reported. ...

President Donald Trump's behavior and appearance is increasingly subjected to scrutiny about whether the commander-in-chief is able to serve out the remainder of his second term. Now, one psychologist is worried that the president is rapidly declining in public.

The Daily Beast reported Friday that psychologist Dr. John Gartner, who is a former professor at Johns Hopkins University, believes the president has been increasingly exhibiting "flashing signs" of an "immense cognitive decline."

"Because of his cognitive decline, [Trump] is focusing on things like the [White House] ballroom and the paper that he writes things on," Gartner told the Beast....

Both mental health therapists and the veterans they serve are "suffering" on several fronts due to President Donald Trump's job cuts and anti DEI policies, according to a new report by National Public Radio.

First, the therapists themselves say they're terrified of DOGE's plan to eliminate some 80,000 jobs within the Department of Veterans Affairs.

One mental health care provider who went by the name 'Lynn' for this report, told NPR's Katia Riddle, "I've been really struggling with my concentration and my ability to focus when I'm at work, because I feel like I have this ax over my head all the time."...