Jesse Jackson Jr. mystery deepens (attempted suicide?)

Politico ^ | July 10, 2012 | JOHN BRESNAHAN and JAKE SHERMAN

[shhrubbery!]

I liked the comment of FReeper scrabblehack from a couple of weeks ago: Exhaustion is a rich person’s disease. An ordinary person can’t come into a hospital and say “give me a bed; I’m exhausted.”

A few decades ago, the fashionable term was "nervous breakdown." Intellectuals, artists, poets, celebrities, and other sensitive types were allowed to be hospitalized for nervous breakdowns. The publicity surrounding their hospitalizations gave them a kind of mystique, e.g. Sylvia Plath and James Taylor.

Then when the term began to be applied to too many ordinary people, it lost its cachet.

[rdl6989]

My first thought was drug/alcohol rehab.

[newzjunkey]

I hope he fully recovers and happily retires to civilian life.

[jmaroneps37]

Glad he didn’t kill himself. His father would hold an 8 day wake blame Republicans for killing him and demand an investigation which Holder would start.