Bandy X. Lee
4 min readMar 5, 2020

At Your Request, a Mental Health Report on Joe Biden

Since you keep asking, here is my report on Joseph R. Biden Jr.:

I do not diagnose without examination and do not speak about public figures in general, unless there is evidence of such profound danger to public health and well-being because of serious signs of mental instability in a public servant, that it would be a public disservice not to share my knowledge and training. Biden has not risen to this threshold. A few stumbled words are not the same as the extreme dangers that result from: delusions of grandeur, omnipotence, and impunity; pathological lying to the level…

Bandy X. Lee

Forensic psychiatrist, violence expert, president of the World Mental Health Coalition (worldmhc.org), and New York Times bestselling author.