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To: jhouston
"Since leaving the Guard, Burkett has run a ranch near Abilene, Tex., and been active in local Democratic politics, posting messages on the Internet urging other Democrats to wage "war" against Republican "dirty tricks." He has told reporters that he suffered from depression and had a nervous breakdown after the military declined to treat him for a tropical disease he contracted while on assignment in Panama."

A nervous breakdown? Is that a current diagnonis? I don't think I've heard that term in almost 30 years.

45 posted on 09/18/2004 8:03:57 PM PDT by A Citizen Reporter
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To: A Citizen Reporter

Nervous breakdown is a non-medical term but is used as a polite way of saying Burkett was hospitalized twice in the last 6 years for depression.


102 posted on 09/18/2004 8:52:05 PM PDT by An American In Dairyland (Have you forgotten?)
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