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Trump Has ’Dangerous Mental Illness’- Psychiatry Experts

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US President Donald Trump has a "dangerous mental illness" and is not fit to lead the US, a group of psychiatrists warned during a conference at Yale University.

Mental health experts suggested that Trump was "paranoid and delusional", and said it was their "ethical responsibility" to warn the American public about the "dangers" Trump's psychological state poses to the country.

Speaking at the conference at Yale's School of Medicine on Thursday, one of the mental health professionals, Dr. John Gartner, a practicing psychotherapist who advised psychiatric residents at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, said: "We have an ethical responsibility to warn the public about Donald Trump's dangerous mental illness."

Gartner, also a founding member of Duty to Warn, an organization of several dozen mental health professionals who think Trump is mentally unfit to be president, said the President's statement about having the largest crowd at an inauguration was just one of many that served as warnings of a larger problem.

"Worse than just being a liar or a narcissist, in addition he is paranoid, delusional and grandiose thinking and he proved that to the country the first day he was President. If Donald Trump really believes he had the largest crowd size in history, that's delusional," he added.

Chairing the event, Dr. Bandy Lee, assistant clinical professor in the Yale Department of Psychiatry, said: "As some prominent psychiatrists have noted, [Trump's mental health] is the elephant in the room. I think the public is really starting to catch on and widely talk about this now."

Moreover, James Gilligan, a psychiatrist and professor at New York University, told the conference he had worked some of the "most dangerous people in society", including murderers and rapists - but that he was convinced by the "dangerousness" of Trump.

"I've worked with some of the most dangerous people our society produces, directing mental health programs in prisons," he said.

"I've worked with murderers and rapists. I can recognize dangerousness from a mile away. You don't have to be an expert on dangerousness or spend fifty years studying it like I have in order to know how dangerous this man is."

Gartner started an online petition earlier this year on calling for Trump to be removed from office, which claims that he is "psychologically incapable of competently discharging the duties of President". The petition has so far garnered more than 41,000 signatures.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team