THE HEALTH OF MENTAL HEALTH

     Wow!! It is certainly a moment. I actually agree with Trump on one statement that he has made and that is that the status of mental health care here in the country is not good, is, in fact, problematic. It is after that, that Donald and I disagree.
     We do indeed neglect mental health here. It is always being fought over by insurance. It is limited in coverage and scope and treatment is usually hidden by the one getting the treatment due to still backward thinking. And it is bad enough when this happens, but what happens when the President of the United States is suffering from some kind of mental derangement and/or disease?
     Trump is ill. There is no doubt about it. Many have come out and stated this be it with a name such as narcissism or megalomania and/ or with the addition of a degenerative illness, one that is the cause of his bizarre statements and actions.
     Take a minor action, one that he himself chided Rubio about, the taking of a sip of water during time at the podium. Yet there is a difference. Trump was awkward to a point beyond reason. I am not even sure that with his actions that he actually got any water in his mouth and his actions and movements trying to open the bottle, almost trying to hide the bottle - weird indeed.
     But there are more serious moments of mental health questions. His very obsessive behavior in tweeting, particularly in aggressive or nasty language, one after the other, his seeming inability to let things go as he perseverates, and his last misstep, when he tweeted the same text to the people in California re the shooting there as he did to the horrific church massacre in Texas.
     Or take his weird behavior in group situations. There was the time he actually pushed a head of government out of his way so he could be front and center. Now, on his most recent trip, he once again positioned himself in the center, all the better to tower over the shorter Asian figures and then had difficulty crossing his hands to conform to the rest of the group. Strange. Very much so.
     Many of his actions make no sense and we are lucky if there is no harm because of them, but at other times there is great harm. Here is one. We all know that elephants, among other species, are being hunted, poached, out of existence due to greed and selfishness. Major efforts have been mounted to save this intelligent species and yet, what does this madman do? He is going to allow the importation of the heads of these elephants "because it will enhance their survival." I kid you not. Hunting, in this bizzaro world is now considered good for them, as if they were a bunch of overgrazing and overpopulated deer.
     So what do we do? It is not a healthy situation when a mentally ill man is head of government and can exercise so much power. The disaster risk is epic. And while we can sympathize or even empathize with him, personal must be separated from public due to his position in life. Yes, he will be feeling separate, sometimes fuzzy in the understanding of what is happening. He will deny, deny, deny. But the gaps in reasonable behavior are growing. The possibility of disaster grows every day, increasing to dangerous levels.
     If we had an enlightened approach to mental health and mental disease, be it of physical or other cause, then perhaps we could be sure that this ill man would be relieved of office and at the very least undergo a public health evaluation, public in the sense that the results would be aired. As President he has no right to hide this from the country. It only bodes no good for us and for the world.
     How will he deal with the radioactive cloud that is now drifting over Europe, very dangerous, and suspected by experts of coming from Russia. Will he call on his imagined great friendship with Putin? Or will he ignore it because so he has been told to? How will he handle the possibility of he himself coming under criminal charges due to  his own record of molestation and sexual harassment of women? Prosecute them all as far as I am concerned, from Bill Clinton to the lowliest, but there is no reason to allow Trump to skip out on his behavior!!
     Mental health? A major issue here in the country. But it becomes even larger and looms menacingly when one suffering from illness of the mind is the President. And yet, the Republicans follow him blindly, like the children after the Pied Piper. Only this time, will there be a time when we can regret our actions in "hiring" him and fix the mess? Who the hell knows and the time for that is running short, especially with his big stupid mouth and itchy bomb finger.