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MINDS SITE NEWS 'A Public Health Emergency': Trump's Struggle to Assess His Mental Fitness for Office Psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee addresses the urgent debate surrounding Trump and dementia, and "shared psychosis," explaining why she believes his mental decline poses a threat to democracy. Eight years ago, psychiatrist and leading violence expert Bandy X. Lee and a group of mental health professionals issued a dire warning: President Donald Trump was not mentally fit to hold the office, and doing so would represent a public health crisis. Today, despite ongoing harassment and death threats, the alarm remains. "Perhaps the strangest experience of my career as a psychiatrist was discovering that the only people not allowed to speak about a subject were those who knew the most about it," he wrote in the introduction to his book, "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Professionals Assess a President," which he compiled and edited in 2017 and which has been continuously updated and republished. Lee was referring to a 2017 American Psychiatric Association guideline telling its members that speaking about Donald Trump's mental capacity for office was "unacceptable and unethical." Mental health professionals like Lee were concerned about this long before Trump was elected: in the months leading up to his first term, an online warning about the dangers of Trumpism had been published with over 2,200 signatures. Around the same time, another book by academics and therapists was published: "A Clear and Present Danger: Narcissism in the Donald Trump Era," a collection of essays.