
Our “Prescriptions for Survival” began in March 2020 with the onset of the Covid pandemic in the United States. It came with concerns that Donald Trump, in the office of the presidency, would be ill-equipped to handle any crisis. The World Mental Health Coalition therefore issued their first “Prescription”, stating that his removal, or at least removal of his influence, was critical to avoiding a catastrophic death toll. Of course, this did not happen, and the United States, with the world’s greatest concentration of medical and scientific expertise and relatively limitless resources, would come to experience more deaths than any other country—more than 1.1 million mostly unnecessary deaths.The coming years necessitated that mental health experts expand their “Prescription for Survival” to cover more than the pandemic, as the years of having a mentally-impaired president in office and failing to contain him revealed that many of the world’s perils have psychological origins. Some are in dangerous leadership.