'I couldn't eat': John Fetterman breaks his silence over crippling depression diagnosis that left him confined to his bed as he's discharged from hospital after more than six weeks of inpatient treatment at Walter Reed
Sen. John Fetterman said his depression began following his election victory
Fetterman defeated Republican Dr. Oz for a Pennsylvania Senate seat
The Democrat is expected to rejoin his colleagues in DC on April 17
By Paul Farrell For Dailymail.Com
Published: 09:28 EDT, 1 April 2023 | Updated: 10:03 EDT, 1 April 2023
John Fetterman has broken his silence over his crippling depression diagnosis that left him unable to eat and confined to his bed after being discharged from hospital following more than six weeks of inpatient treatment at Walter Reed.
In an upcoming interview with CBS Sunday Morning, Sen. John Fetterman disclosed that his depression symptoms worsened after he was elected to the US Senate in November in the mid-term election's most expensive contest.
'The whole thing about depression,' he said, 'is that objectively you may have won, but depression can absolutely convince you that you actually lost and that’s exactly what happened and that was the start of a downward spiral.'
Fetterman, 53, said he 'had stopped leaving my bed, I’d stopped eating, I was dropping weight, I’d stopped engaging in some of the most — things that I love in my life.'
He checked into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on February 15 after weeks of what aides described as Fetterman being withdrawn and uninterested in eating, discussing work or partaking in banter with staff.
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