I mean, and sometimes sadness (grief) does lead to depression. After my dad died I spent about a year in total denial that anything was wrong with me, and when it caught up with me, it sent my life into a fucking spiral. I drank too much, slept all day, and made so many bad choices that finally my mom sat me down and…

Totally. When has candidate’s blatant disregard for the scientific community, or opposition to a person’s right to make their own medical decisions, ever affected how they govern?

A president is a leader (or should be). A president who derides psychiatry as quackery, who advocates for spiritual guidance over clinical treatment might be likely to advocate for less funding in psychopharmalogical research and care - and more underwriting of faith-based approaches.

I think that it’s relevant for Marianne because she seems like the Louise Hay “if you’re sick, it’s your fault for being a negative person” type, and that’s something we should know about someone who wants to be president (or, in her case, grow her profile so she can make more money from her bullshit ideas).

Did she also compared sadness to depression?? 

Depression is a disease that literally kills people.

Telling people with a fatal disease that they’re wrong and bad for taking medication that can save their life? That’s heinous on every single conceivable level, and especially reprehensible in the context of what depression does to our self-conception.

I really do wish this site would stop dedicating so much space to Marianne Williamson. She IS an idiot, a hack, a grifter and a charlatan. She has really dangerous views on psychiatry, vaccinations and healthcare in general. She has no concrete data to support or demonstrate her “love is the answer” message, which…

You do realize we are moments away from Jax and Brittany having kids right?  She’s probably pregnant right now!!  (Insert crying emoji here) 

I disagree - Stassi is reformed and Beau is to thank for it. We have all come to find through the years that the real devil is in fact Katie Maloney FauxSchwartz.

Exactly. They are completely disqualifying beliefs. She has no business on that stage. 

Also, children and the elderly, even if they are healthy.

Right. I lumped HIV/AIDS under chronic illness. 

She hasn’t been brought to account for her statements about AIDS either.

What has this lady ever done to attempt to improve American race relations?

Agreed. It’s also worth noting that Ta-Nehisi Coates presents this as the first step in his article making the case for reparations. He makes the point that it isn’t just about handing out money, it’s about owning up to all the horrible crimes that most Americans are still content to let be swept under the rug and…

“We need some truth telling when it comes. We don’t need another commission to look at evidence.”

No, her more controversial beliefs about vaccinations and mental health should be disqualifying.

Please don’t give this mess more oxygen. Maybe you are not old enough to remember her “A Course in Miracles” bullshit and what damage she did during the early days of the AIDS crisis, but everybody who DOES remember knows she is a grifter.

Her more controversial beliefs about vaccinations and mental health should be questioned, but it would be foolhardy for us or her Democratic opponents to write her off entirely.

Anti-vaxxer. So fuck her.