Posted on 09/06/2014 1:54:36 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Two months before Californians go to the polls to choose a governor, the state's top elections official tearfully acknowledged Friday that she has been consumed by a "debilitating" depression that has often kept her away from the office..
Secretary of State Debra Bowen, who oversees statewide voting, told The Times that she has a history of depression and has moved out of the two-story country home she owns with her husband. She now resides in a trailer park on the outskirts of Sacramento.
"I have suffered from depression since I was in college, and I am having a more difficult episode right now," Bowen, 58, said in an interview. "It's something we haven't talked about because there is such a stigma."
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On Friday, Bowen said she wanted to share her troubles with the public, particularly after the suicide of actor Robin Williams, who also suffered from depression.
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Depression, however, has proved to be a much tougher battle, even with treatment and medication, she said.
"It is debilitating. It wears on your soul," Bowen said, weeping. "It has been 30 years since I have had a depression that has weighed this heavily on me, so I am in new territory."
The secretary said she is receiving professional help, is comforted by support from friends and has not been hospitalized.
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I suspect something is about to break in the news involving her. This is one way to blame it on something other than her gross corruption.
Jeez. Where does America find these “leaders?” Even by California standards...
I was depressed when I had to live in a trailer park
too.
BS
“I am a gay American. That is my truth...”
It has to be mentally devastating to be a liberal.
I’m sure you’re right. And if ‘depression’ doesn’t work, maybe she’ll pull out the lesbo card...
Quick someone find out if she has any guns, she’s depressed so we better get a swat team to her home asap to make sure those guns are confiscated before she can use them to harm herself or others. Oh wait............................she’s a demonrat politician.
Liberalism is a mental disease.
I didn’t go to the link: does the article include her saying that she’s resigning her office because she’s incapable of performing her duties adequately?
So she has “debilitating” depression and is often away from work. Maybe she should resign or be fired? I can understand, though, her being depressed. She is, after all, a LIB/DIM.
That would depress me.
Nope.
She is hanging around until she is term limited out.
A person of no honor.
Democrat.
Redundancy.
Sounds like she has a lover. She wanted out of her marriage
Exactly, liberals and many women will feel so sorry for her, even though she “can perform all her duties despite being gone 3 days a week”. So they can pay her PT, maybe 15.00 per hour and no benefits
A life of grotesque sin tends to induce depression.
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