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Duty To Warn
@duty2warn
An association of mental health professionals
warning NOW about TrumpISM. #UNTRUTH
documentary, the follow-up doc to 2020's #UNFIT,
to be widely released soon.
○ United States 2 untruthfilm.com
https://twitter.com/duty2warn?t=Hg-8dFMeZtquJSsfWSa3og&s=09

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1/20 Over 400 licensed medical and mental health professionals have agreed Trump shows clear signs of "probable dementia." But even more persuasive than their signatures on our petition are what they had to say. Only in this long Tweet can you read their words verbatim.
Please hear their voices! (RT)

"I am a neuropsychiatrist and movement disorders neurologist at an academic medical center. There is more than enough reason to suspect Dementia including: worsening thought process, loser connections between thoughts, tangentiality, paraphasias, irritability, paranoia, persecutory ideation, impulsivity and so on; which are clearly different than videos of him from 10 years ago. Without personally examining him, I cannot clarify further, but he appears to at least have a cautious gait. The most plausible disorder would be a mixture of frontal lobe dysfunction (sort of like frontotemporal Dementia or CTE) from a vascular Dementia."
-- Ankur Butala, M.D.

“As an experienced physician who was board certified in Family Medicine, Geriatrics, and Emergency Medicine, it is my professional opinion that Donald J. Trump is unfit for any elected office because he meets all the DSM-5 criteria for narcissistic personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder. In addition, recent observations clearly demonstrate deteriorating cognitive function. His public posture leaning forward when standing, his difficulty walking down a ramp, his holding his palms down on a table as if it would rise in the air, and his increasing speech difficulties are suggestive of frontotemporal dementia. Again, this is all based on public information and my years of experience.
---Thomas C. Long, M.D.

“The evidence for dementia in Donald Trump has become overwhelming. Unlike normal aging, which is characterized by forgetting names or words, Trump repeatedly shows something very different: confusion about reality. For example, he might have confused Obama with Biden once, but his repeated error indicates inability to keep track of the facts. Similarly, he recently said that he won all 50 states in the 2020 election. That is not normal aging, it’s loss of ability to think, reason, and know reality. Further, a normally aging person recognizes the mistake and corrects it. For example, Biden recently saw he’d misspoken and joked it was a “Freudian slip”. Trump doesn’t realize he is making errors because he is too demented to see them. Other obvious examples have been Trump saying that the name of the state of Pennsylvania will be changed, or that the names of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln would be deleted from buildings. That is not loss of word recall, it’s dementia. Trump has always lied, but these are examples that aren’t even part of his delusional grandiosity (like saying he had the largest crowd in history for his inauguration). These are loss of normal cognitive ability seen with dementia. If he were to become President he would have to be immediately removed from office via the 25th amendment as dangerously unable to fulfill the responsibilities of office.
---Lance Dodes, M.D., Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Snip... you can read more of the twenty tweet thread here...
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1768567654111932739.html

A duty to warn is a concept that arises in the law of torts in a number of circumstances, indicating that a party will be held liable for injuries caused to another, where the party had the opportunity to warn the other of a hazard and failed to do so.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duty_to_warn