Posted on 03/25/2023 10:01:51 AM PDT by simpson96
Five weeks after Sen. John Fetterman’s hospitalization for clinical depression, his staff says the stay is coming to an end soon, though no certain timeline was offered for his return.
“John will be out soon,” spokesperson Joe Calvello said. “Over a week but soon. Recovery is going really well. We have an amazing team at Walter Reed.”
Fetterman’s public acknowledgment in mid-February that he was suffering from depression and decision to seek treatment were heralded by many of his colleagues as a courageous disclosure about an often stigmatized topic. Intense scrutiny over his recovery and inpatient care has continued, though, after questions about his long-term health after a stroke in May.
A five-week hospital stay is considered somewhat long for inpatient depression care. But members of Fetterman’s team have said they aren’t rushing his return and they expect him to be able to return to the key requirements of his new job.
“It’s about John getting the care he needs and not rushing this,” a senior aide told The Inquirer. “Six weeks is a grain of sand in a six-year term. He’s doing what he needs to do.”
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He’s doing so well he looks like a different person. 🤔
Hospitalized? For five weeks? For depression? Uh huh. Sounds like a true story.
They are trying to get the meds right. For everyone else they’d have sent home to see if the meds are working. But for him they don’t want to risk him making suicidal comments on the senate floor or to the press. So they are keeping him locked up while they get the meds “right”. And it typically takes 4-6 weeks for the meds to start working. So if they got the wrong meds they need to start over.
Hospitalized for depression for five weeks?
Isn’t that unusual?
Is that evidence of a serious mental illness?
From the crazy house to the legislature. A democrat dream
Gotta negotiate the lefts lawyer speak........”soon” is a subjective word.
As long as he’s got a pulse......that’s all they care about.
That’s from one crazy house to another, isn’t it???
They're waiting for that thing on his neck to hatch.
Biden Fetterman, 2024.
It’s a no brainer
Fetter2men, too
“John Fetterman has been hospitalized for depression for five weeks.”
Everybody knows that it only takes a week to get over depression. /s
he was depressed because he looked so freaking ugly, so he is getting work done on his face to make him not look like lurch.
Depression is not something one ‘recovers’ from in the way one recovers from a physical malady. A month and a half of intensive, in-patient treatment; the guy was/is a basket case.
Sounds more like they’re intentionally keeping him away from the public and making sure he doesn’t say or do anything jeopardizing to his career. I doubt any ordinary person’s insurance would pay for this.
Five weeks to find the body double.
I’lltake the high road ( bad karma and all)
i hope he recovers.
It depends on what the meaning of ‘soon’ is...
Just about to have those new neck bolts torqued. A few more days.
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