Mental Health Assessment: More From Politico Magazine

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Talking to a psychiatrist almost any once in a while is like preventative medicine to keep such subconscious demons at bay. Congress could try to avoid them in the short term by quickly codifying the presidential psychiatrist position before Trump is sworn in on January in the long period, this type of a move could actually fraught politics of mental health have clearly not gone away.

Abraham Lincoln experienced such deep bouts of depression during his lifespan that he was confined to bed and contemplated suicide.

Assumption that presidents have robust mental health was wrong long before the 45th president came along. At least two presidents John Kennedy and Richard Nixon surreptitiously ok daily psychiatric medications like Valium and identical anxiety treatments while occupying the Oval Office, as I have written before. Another Lyndon Johnson was so emotionally erratic that his p aides consulted psychiatrists and confronted the first lady about his behavior.

So it’s not about assuaging the fears or stoking the jeers of those who have called Donald Trump a psychopath or a narcissist.

Appointing a presidential psychiatrist will also be a fitting addition to an unprecedented decade of bipartisan mental health policy reform in Congress.

In 2008, Congress passed Democratic Representative Patrick Kennedy’s mental health parity law, that required health certificate companies to cover mental and physical illness equally. Besides, others felt that the president must pay for his own doctor rather than charge the taxpayers, Back in 1928, would automatically be given the rank, pay and allowance of a colonel. Today, the presidential physician’s salary is less than $ 200000 annually, out of the federal government’s $ 9 trillion budget a reasonable sum for maintaining the health of the leader of the free world. Majority ultimately decided that the position should no longer be optional. Actually, just last month, Congress incorporated Republican Representative Tim Murphy’s Helping Families in Mental Health Cr Act, that overhauled the federal bureaucracy that deals with mental health, into the 21st Century Cures Act.

In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson suffered a devastating stroke that left him partially paralyzed, semi blind and so fragile that his wife and doctor hid him from the public.

a doctor will always be on hand if the president were physically ill.

Fragile mortality of the presidency was on display as at no other time in American history, and in 1928, Congress codified a tally new White House position. In 1923, Wilson’s successor, Warren Harding, died suddenly in office from what was later determined to be congestive heart failure. Write

The Atlantic dedicated a cover story to the mind of Donald Trump.

It’s a well-known fact that the media has enabled this kind of armchair psychology of the ‘presidentelect’. Enough psychiatrists were quoted in various publications that the American Psychiatric Association issued a statement calling such psychoanalysis of candidates unethical and irresponsible. Certainly, when 1189 psychiatrists controversially declared Republican nominee Barry Goldwater mentally unfit to be president, the rule is a legacy of the 1964 campaign. Essentially, the group cited what’s known as The Goldwater Rule, that prohibits psychiatrists from offering opinions on someone they have not personally evaluated. Point is that none of the people saying so actually knows, trump could very well suffer from some sort of mental illness. I’m sure you heard about this. Those presidents who are known to have received psychiatric medication had to arrange for it in secret, most often from doctors without backgrounds in mental health. These reports do not contain psychiatric information, Today, the presidential physician periodically releases a summary of the president’s checkups. This is where it starts getting very entertaining. Nor has any presidential physician ever been a trained psychiatrist.

Despite the mercurial behavior and pillpopping, there’s nobody employed to keep tabs on the president’s mental health.

Michael Dukakis got tagged with the psychiatric stink without even seeing a psychiatrist.

President Nixon, meanwhile, kept his psychiatric medication secret by getting a Valium prescription from his and Henry Kissinger’s osteopath, as reported by Evan Thomas in his book Being Nixon. In 1972, reports arose that Democratic nominee George McGovern’s running mate, Thomas Eagleton, had undergone shock therapy. President Ronald Reagan answered a question on the pic by quipping, I’m not planning to pick on an invalid, as George Bush’s campaign was doing best in order to gin up rumors about Dukakis’ mental health. Besides, the political media went wild, and Dukakis’ large lead in the polls began to shrink. Just think for a moment. Mental health problems are destigmatized in American culture over the past few decades, yet mental health remains fair game in the political arena as some presidentiallevel politicians have learned the hard way.

Eagleton eventually withdrew from the ticket, and McGovern’s judgment was called into question.

Should the president’s judgment be trusted if people knew of psychiatric sessions?

Let me ask you something. What should happen if the president’s medical files were leaked and the public found out the commander in chief was on anti depressants? It’s a well-known fact that the introduction of a presidential psychiatrist should surely carry political risks. After all. That said, the most stressful and consequential offices in human history ought to have easy access to top-notch medical care available, including whenever it boils down to mental health.