Posted on 06/30/2002 9:51:34 PM PDT by kattracks
Former second lady Tipper Gore was so shaken by her husband's failure to win the White House two years ago that she sought psychiatric counseling to reassure herself she wasn't mentally ill.
On Friday Mrs. Gore told the Memphis Commercial Appeal that the Supreme Court's decision to stop the 2000 election's Florida recount left her in "a state of shock."
"It took me a while to work my way out of that," she explained. "I couldn't believe that the voting would be stopped."
Her husband's defeat, coupled with the October 2001 death of her mother, Margaret Ann Aitcheson, sent Mrs. Gore into such a severe emotional tailspin that by the end of last year she began to doubt her own sanity.
Gore told the Appeal that she checked with her doctor to make sure she wasn't suffering a relapse of the mental illness she suffered after her son Albert was hit by a car in 1989.
"Am I clinically depressed?" the first lady wannabe said she asked point-blank.
The doctor told her, "No, this is a normal response to what happens in tough times," she recalled.
Still, the Gores decided to take a seven-week vacation to Spain, Italy and Greece, during which Mrs. Gore managed to regain her emotional stability.
But the revelation of his wife's second bout with possible mental illness has some wondering whether former Vice President Al Gore might be forced to shelve plans for another White House run to spare his wife further mental anguish.
Mrs. Gore's late mother also battled mental illness her entire life.
During the 2000 campaign, Tipper Gore traveled with her husband only three or four days a week, explaining that she needed the remainder of the week "to recover."
In 1999, after revealing her first bout with depression, she acknowledged that stress on the campaign trail could cause a relapse.
"It is something that I am aware of," she told Newsweek. "I now know my limits. I have in my younger years, in my 40s, been overextended. I don't want to do that again."
Mrs. Gore continued:
"I am going to try to continue to make sure that as I go through my life I know how I perform the best and what my limits are and be sure that I design my schedule and my life that way."
Another assumption
They are a political team.
And yet another assumption
You must be referring to your highly speculative argument.
Quoting the Bible and criticizing others' "witness for Christ" does not establish your bona fides. Your posts remind me of Peewee Herman's, "I know you are, but what am I?" brand of childishness.
Buh bye.
Contentious only because I don't accept your speculative argument.
This is the last one you'll get from me.
Good news for me.
Quoting the Bible and criticizing others' "witness for Christ" does not establish your bona fides. Your posts remind me of Peewee Herman's, "I know you are, but what am I?" brand of childishness.
When you advertise your Christianity with your user name and engage in very un-Biblical behavior, then I am going to call you on your hypocrisy.
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