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Editorial: U.S. Sen. Fetterman’s transparency about his mental health issues will do a lot of good
Fetterman’s Senate campaign staff was not very transparent about the stroke that took him off the campaign trail for much of last summer.
His detailed medical records were not released. Voters didn’t learn about the lingering auditory processing issues caused by the stroke until September.
The former lieutenant governor has chosen a different — much more candid — approach regarding his mental health struggles.
When he checked himself into Walter Reed, his chief of staff revealed in a statement that Fetterman had “experienced depression off and on throughout his life,” but it had become “severe in recent weeks.”
And the news release about his discharge from Walter Reed noted the use of medication therapies to treat his depression. It also noted his improved mood, “brighter affect and improved motivation, self-attitude, and engagement with others” as those and other therapies began to have an effect.
We learned that Fetterman had “expressed a firm commitment to treatment over the long term.”
We also learned that hearing tests had identified Fetterman’s significant hearing loss and that he was fitted with hearing aids. This revelation was in itself a public service. Research has shown that hearing loss can increase a person’s risk of developing a mental health disorder such as depression. And men, in particular, often are unwilling to wear...
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