Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) has been discharged from the hospital and his depression is now in remission. In the statement, Fetterman said he’s “so happy to be home.”
“I’m excited to be the father and husband I want to be, and the senator Pennsylvania deserves. Pennsylvanians have always had my back, and I will always have theirs,” he said. “I am extremely grateful to the incredible team at Walter Reed. The care they provided changed my life.”“But for now I want everyone to know that depression is treatable, and treatment works,” he said.
On Sunday, CBS will air an interview with Fetterman — his first since he first checked himself in for care. A preview of the conversation between the senator and “CBS Sunday Morning’s” Jane Pauley shows Fetterman speaking candidly about his depression, and how it was exacerbated by his November win in the tight Pennsylvania Senate race.“It’s like … you just won the biggest, you know, race in, in the country,” Fetterman told Pauley.
That, he said, was the start of “a downward spiral.” Fetterman said that, in the interim between winning the“I had stopped leaving my bed,” he said. “I had stopped eating. I was dropping weight. I had stopped engaging some of the … things that I love in my life.”he suffered in May, just days before he overwhelmingly won the Democratic primary in Pennsylvania’s Senate race.
Fetterman’s expected return to the Senate will be welcome news for Senate Democrats, who have struggled to advance some of President Biden’s judicial nominees during Fetterman’s absence. Sen. Dianne Feinstein , who is a member of the Judiciary Committee, has also been absent for weeks after a bout of shingles. The Senate begins a two-week recess Monday.
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