John Fetterman’s return to the Hill on Monday will provide the most visible example of the nation’s capital slowly embracing mental health concerns.
John Fetterman’s return to the Hill on Monday will provide the most visible example of the nation’s capital slowly embracing an issue that affects 1 in 5 Americans in a given year. | Patrick Semansky/AP PhotoFor six weeks, while Sen. John Fetterman received treatment for clinical depression at Walter Reed Medical Center, handwritten cards poured into his Washington office. His staff fielded phone calls from constituents passing along well wishes.
What they and others have discovered is that the country is increasingly open about it. And that the politics are changing around it.about Fetterman and how the news of his depression dredged up old feelings about her own fight with the disease in her teens, and again as a young mom. Republican Sen. Katie Britt’s team sent cookies and brownies to Fetterman’s office almost once a week, the senior Fetterman aide told POLITICO.
“In the ’50s and ’60s, nobody said the word cancer. We talk about cancer now. We need to get to that point where we talk about depression. We talk about bipolar disorder. We talk about PTSD. We talk about schizophrenia, and acknowledge that these are illnesses for which there is treatment, and people can have satisfying, fulfilling lives,” said Lynn Bufka, associate chief of practice transformation at the American Psychological Association and a licensed psychologist in Maryland.
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