Depression and mental health crises are a 'human issue,' Sen. Fetterman said, regardless of political party. Encouraging people to seek treatment should be a national priority, he said, and it's one of his own personal goals.
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., is interviewed by Joe Scarborough on Friday."I stopped getting out of bed. And it wasn’t because I was just tired. It was just because I didn’t want to," he said, adding that his children were confused about why he wasn't happy after he won a grueling campaign.in early February after he felt lightheaded. A week later, he checked himself into Walter Reed to get treatment for depression.
Fetterman said that he was"skeptical" at the beginning of the process and that he was in a"rough place" for the first few weeks."One of the most profound things," he said, was"actually my brother, like, my best friend said, you know, he had a moment where he was scared that you may not be coming back."
For the first three weeks in treatment, Fetterman said, he didn't see his children, because he was"ashamed of what I'd done." But after several weeks, they visited, bringing Post-it notes that Fetterman's dad had left for him and writing dozens of encouraging notes that were hung up all over his room.
“That’s what sparked my idea that it’s, like, there’s a whole big, big reason to get better,” he said. “You have a lot to fight for.”
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