Posted on 03/06/2020 10:15:27 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Mental health professionals who have expressed concern over what they see as Donald Trump’s declining faculties say that similar fears about Joe Biden’s are overblown.
“A few stumbled words are not the same as the extreme danger that result from a list of signs that Donald Trump has shown,” Bandy Lee, a psychiatrist on the faculty at the Yale School of Medicine, told Yahoo News, “and none of them apply to Joe Biden.”
Yet since Biden’s reemergence as a front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, Lee has been flooded by requests to assess the former vice president’s string of stumbles in public appearances. In response, she published a piece on Medium correcting what she sees as the false equivalence between Trump’s “mental instability” and Biden’s occasional gaffes.
To be sure, one reason the topic of Biden’s mental capacity has become an issue in the campaign is that he has often struggled to express himself at campaign events and debates. But Biden, who has struggled with a stutter since childhood, has been prone to bouts of inarticulateness for decades.
If he goes on to win the presidency, Biden would be, at 78, the oldest American ever sworn into office.
While Lee emphasizes that Trump’s psyche is the much larger issue, she acknowledges that all those who seek the highest office in the land need to be evaluated in terms of mental health.
“It’s not an absent observation. Some of it may happen with normal decline. Others may be a warning sign, but we don’t know that without an examination,” Lee said. “But still, I would emphasize that I would give attention to the overwhelming danger that we have before us. Until that is addressed, or unless that is addressed, I personally do not wish to hear about Joe Biden.”
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Wolf! Wolf! Wolf! Wolf! Wolf! There is a wolf! Wolf! Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof...... Woof....... Woof.....
The media has become the random car alarm in a parking lot.... few pay attention or look. At some point, what will you believe - your own eyes or their BS?
She doesn't wish to hear about Joe Biden. That gives the game away doesn't it? Isn't she allegedly rendering a professional, sort of scientific, opinion? What do her wishes have to do with that?
Funny. Picture on later post below....
If she's a stripper she should be the one shoving $10 bills into the underwear of the men stupid enough to watch for a few seconds before vacating the strip joint in disgust.
Men have at least some class--usually.
“Biden would be, at 78, the oldest American ever sworn into office.”
President Biden: Get off my lawn you damn kids!
Secret Service: It a White House Tour Group Mr Pesident.
Hey, look at her eyes. Under the Asian folds they are as weirdly bugged out as Schiff and AOC. Part of the same alien hybrid genetic experiment from alien abductions? Never believed in that stuff-—until now.
Are you sure that is not Sulu from Start Trek in drag?
These health professionals better seek help. They are nuts.
And this person was granted a license to practice? Not only is she nuts, she is unethical. We need to evaluate those who approved her license to practice as well.
Trump is far from mad. He displays exceptional talent for understanding the fundamental problems and formulating policies and plans to help. He is not mad . . . he is brilliant!!!
“Biden would be, at 78, the oldest American ever sworn into office.”
President Biden: Get off my lawn you damn kids!
Secret Service: It’S a White House Tour Group Mr PResident.
ML/NJ
This unethical stuff by the profession really bothers me.
When I posted more about it a few weeks ago several FReepers seeing psychiatrists reminded me there are good ones who help them. I know that.
Sorry in advance but it is infuriating these are attacking Trump. And millions of Dem sheep like it just fine.
Prof.Bandy Lee should get a psychiatric exam ASAP.He/She has a serious case of Trump derangement syndrome.
Are these vile people ever embarrassed at how stupid they make themselves look? or do they have bubbles that keep them from connecting to reality?
They left “So be sure to vote democrat” out of the article.
I wonder how many patients this shrink has murdered with ECT or Major Tranquilizers.
I can see Biden walking into for a one on one meeting with Putin, and
demanding the Russian leader be brought in, and not be happy until his
wife entered the room.
Communists will always accuse their enemies of being mentally unstable or insane. It is just a technique, folks.
Never believe a communist (i.e. A democrat).
JoMa
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