Diana Hembree

1 week ago | mindsitenews.org | Diana Hembree

Good morning, readers. In today’s special issue of MindSite News Daily we pose a critical question: Why does the United States persist in treating addiction like a moral failing? We’ll explore programs that treat addiction like the chronic disease that it is – at a time when overdoses have declined but are still claiming more than 80,000 lives a year.

2 months ago | mindsitenews.org | Diana Hembree

Psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee discusses the urgent debate over Trump and dementia as well as his ‘shared psychosis’ – and why she believes his mental decline poses a danger to democracyEight years ago, psychiatrist  and prominent violence expert Bandy X. Lee and a cadre of mental health professionals issued a dire warning: President Donald Trump was  mentally unfit to remain in the presidency and his doing so amounted to a public health crisis.

2 months ago | mindsitenews.org | Diana Hembree

The founder of Duty to Warn says ‘Trump is the American Hitler, and immigrants are the new Jews’At MindSite News, we sat down for a Zoom call with Dr. John Gartner, a prominent psychotherapist and author who has practiced in Baltimore for 35 years and taught part-time at Johns Hopkins University Medical School.

Nov 4, 2024 | mindsitenews.org | Diana Hembree

The group of psychiatrists and doctors that first warned about the “unmistakable” signs of Donald Trump’s mental instability in the first year of his presidency has continued its effort to sound the alarm right up to the last day before the momentous election that could return him to office. This time, they are also warning signs that Trump has dementia.

Oct 28, 2024 | ourcommunitynow.com | Diana Hembree

Share Restrained for days Keith Clark is the most restrained man in Illinois jails and prisons. Between 2019 and 2023, he was tied to a chair for more than 200 hours. Once, Clark, who has severe mental illness, was restrained for the better part of five days, according to new reporting from Meredith Newman at Illinois Answers Project released Monday. For months, the Illinois Answers Project has been investigating how often Illinois jails are still using restraint chairs.