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BREAKING: John Fetterman Checked Himself Into Walter Reed for Clinical Depression Treatment
mountaineer:
UPDATE - Fetterman (and lump) set free.
--- Quote ---Fetterman discharged from Walter Reed, depression now in remission
by David Sivak, Congress & Campaigns Editor
March 31, 2023 05:49 PM
Washington Examiner
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) was released on Friday from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where doctors had been treating him for clinical depression for the last six weeks.
The senator traveled home to Braddock, Pennsylvania, where he will spend time with his family before returning to the Senate after the Easter recess, his office announced. ...
Williamson reported that treatment of his depression led to a "noticeable" improvement in his speaking abilities. The medical team, which assessed that he has "mild to moderate" hearing loss, fitted Fetterman with hearing aids and advised that his speech is likely to improve "significantly" with continued therapy.
Walter Reed found no evidence of a new stroke, confirming the findings of George Washington University Hospital, where he was hospitalized after feeling lightheaded. ...
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Poor Gisele. Now she has to resume playing the role of caring spouse. No more vacations for a little while.
Timber Rattler:
We'll see how long he manages to stay out of the hospital now before he checks himself back in.
mystery-ak:
Fetterman discharged from hospital, will return to Senate after recess
by Julia Shapero - 03/31/23 6:15 PM ET
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) was discharged from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Friday, after spending several weeks receiving in-patient treatment for depression.
“I am extremely grateful to the incredible team at Walter Reed,” Fetterman said in a statement. “The care they provided changed my life. I will have more to say about this soon, but for now I want everyone to know that depression is treatable, and treatment works.”
“This isn’t about politics — right now there are people who are suffering with depression in red counties and blue counties,” he continued. “If you need help, please get help.”
The Pennsylvania senator will spend the next two weeks back home in the Keystone State while the Senate is in recess and will return to Washington, D.C., when the session resumes on April 17, his office said.
more
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3928696-fetterman-discharged-from-hospital-will-return-to-senate-after-recess/
mystery-ak:
Fetterman Does First Post-Depression Interview and Raises a Multitude of Questions
By Bonchie | 9:35 AM on April 01, 2023
John Fetterman has finally been released from the hospital after suffering from a reported bout of severe depression. The Pennsylvania senator has long been at the center of controversy surrounding his ailing health, largely centering on the massive stroke he had prior to the 2022 election.
Since then, Fetterman has deteriorated in ways that would have led to immediate calls for his resignation were he not a member of the Democratic Party. He can’t speak properly, he can’t understand others properly, and he relies on a closed captioning device to communicate.
It’s good to be a Democrat, though, and the press has been rushing to cover for him since day one. That continued on Friday with an interview with CBS News that did nothing but raise a multitude of questions.
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https://twitter.com/CBSSunday/status/1641917228516888579
For starters, is this guy a US senator or not? I’m not trying to downplay his condition. Quite the contrary, but the Senate is not a place to battle depression, much less serious health issues that leave one unable to communicate. The question at hand isn’t how brave Fetterman supposedly is. It’s whether he can do his job, and he obviously can’t. That should be the top issue for every single person who interviews him. Instead, they lavish him with praise while helping him hide his actual condition. It’s dystopian.
more
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/04/01/fetterman-does-first-post-depression-interview-and-raises-a-multitude-of-questions-n724780
mystery-ak:
'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.
more
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11927675/Sen-John-Fetterman-shares-struggle-depression-intimate-interview-Jane-Pauley.html
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