We Do Have A Mental Illness Problem & It's In the Whitehouse
by Thom Hartmann
Trump, the NRA, and the Republican Party keep talking about mental illness as the core of our problem right now in America. And, indeed, we have a major mental illness problem in our country right now. It's in the White House. Our president is mentally ill, and until we recognize that, acknowledge that, and begin a national conversation about it there can be no healing or reconciliation.
His lies, his continuous contradictions, and his erratic behavior both domestically and internationally are all symptoms of his severe mental illness. Many of America's mental health professionals have recognized this, but a serious discussion of the president's mental illness has not yet moved out of the realm of mental health professionals and into our mainstream rhetoric.
The media needs to acknowledge that we have a disabled man in the White House, and that his disability is putting all of us - literally, the entire world - at risk. One of the most common understandings in the mental health community is that healing starts with acknowledging the cause of the problem; healing in America will begin when we all acknowledge that Trump's mental illness has torn us apart and poisoned our national and international discourse.
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