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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Politics
Akin Olla

John Fetterman can help lift the stigma around mental illness and depression

John Fetterman
‘Tucker Carlson argued that Fetterman is “unfit to serve in the United States Senate”’. Photograph: Jon Cherry/Reuters

My senator, John Fetterman, has checked into a hospital for clinical depression.

This is an action that an increasing number of Americans will likely take in their lifetimes, given the rising rates of depression. Still, Fox News has already pounced: Tucker Carlson argued that Fetterman is “unfit to serve in the United States Senate”, while Laura Ingraham went as far as to imply that Fetterman’s wife has worked to hide his condition and that the act was “craven or a cruel political calculation by a stage wife and political nihilist”.

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