Posted on 12/01/2007 9:17:09 AM PST by COUNTrecount
London, June 2 (ANI): Hillary Clinton, the frontrunner to become the next American president, suffered serious bouts of depression when she was the U.S. First Lady in 1994.
According to former Watergate scandal journalist Carl Bernstein, Hillary also displayed persistent signs of melancholy as a student.
Bernstein quotes David Gergen, then a senior Clinton aide, as saying: "I don't know whether she was seeing a doctor or not but she was depressed" in his book -- "A Woman in Charge" in 1994, a year after her husband, Bill Clinton became president.
The book says Clinton's "emotional state" was "as fragile as it had ever been" in late 1994 after her close friend Vince Foster had committed suicide, her father had died and her healthcare proposals had been rejected.
Due to be published on Tuesday, the book, according to The Telegraph, could damage the New York senator's ambition to become America's first female president.
The claims are part of a potentially devastating portrait of a woman whom, Bernstein concludes, is controlling, aloof, dishonest and greatly flawed as a politician.
Although the Clinton campaign has attempted to dismiss the book, Bernstein's pedigree and sympathy towards the former first lady's policies make this difficult.
Advance media coverage has focused principally on suggestions that the Clintons came close to divorce in 1989. But accounts of Mrs Clinton's temper, tendency to bear grudges, lying, detachment and struggle to establish her own identity are likely to prove more damaging. The prospect of a commander-in-chief who might be prone to depression during a crisis could deter voters. (ANI)
Increased energy, activity, and restlessness
Excessively “high,” overly good, euphoric mood Heard her laugh lately?
Extreme irritability Throwing ash trays and lamps
Racing thoughts and talking very fast, jumping from one idea to another
Distractibility, can’t concentrate well
Little sleep needed
Unrealistic beliefs in one’s abilities and powers National health care anyone?
Poor judgment ehem!
Spending sprees Perfect for a politician
A lasting period of behavior that is different from usual
Increased sexual drive
Abuse of drugs, particularly cocaine, alcohol, and sleeping medications
Provocative, intrusive, or aggressive behavior This fits
Denial that anything is wrong as does this
A manic episode is diagnosed if elevated mood occurs with three or more of the other symptoms most of the day, nearly every day, for 1 week or longer. If the mood is irritable, four additional symptoms must be present
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/bipolar-disorder/complete-publication.shtml
If she’s prone to repeated bouts of depression, she should not be POTUS.
I say that as someone who knows.
Cheap shot is what quoting the DSM is. \\
We won’t win by cheap shots and rumor mongering and speculation. The facts on the Hillary Clinton so called career are enough.
This kind of crappy stuff makes us look stupid and mean and desperate.
Hillary Clinton is what she is and that is enough to beat her on.
I don’t think we should go down this road.
You may be OK with a mentally unstable person with their hand on the nuclear football....I'M NOT !
So did Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill. I think that Eagleton's elimination was not so much because of the earlier depression but because of the electroshock treatments.
Churchill suffered badly from depression, but was otherwise the best his nation had for the job at hand in those times.
Lincoln’s “depression” is a matter of debate.
Eagleton’s political demise was, as you stated, the result of the electroshock rather than the depression itself.
In Eagleton’s day, anti-depressants were crude and riddled with side effects. Even with today’s sophisticated anti-depressants, I still would not want a POTUS with depression issues.
Oh! The Humanity!
Nothing appeals to the uppity woman voter more than a woman with depression. Or cancer. Or a philandering husband. And so on.
The Chickification of the culture means this is a positive for her - just watch.
An appeal for the PITY VOTE.
You mean, bi-sexual? (The answer is...affirmative!)
That’s great, an obese, depression woman that thinks that she the smartest person in the world as POTUS!
oh puleeezzzzzze! Enough already about this hack.
So did we because she was First Lady. It will be more than depression for her subjects if she's elected President.
Oh, please. She whacked Vince, Healthcare was doomed from the start, and this woman cant feel emotions, so I dont she mourned her fathers death.
Sorry, this is nothing more than Clinton trying to tell us, she is like us, when she spent the last 15 years acting like she wasnt.
Will somone not rid us this vile crature?
Hopefully not as badly as Al Gore, otherwise we might see pictures of a super-sized Hillary.
And she found that destroying people’s lives, particularly women’s, was a great way to bounce right out of that depression.
“Will somone not rid us this vile crature?”
What’s that supposed to mean? Not the typo.
Agree
This kind of crappy stuff makes us look stupid and mean and desperate.
Sometimes you don't even know what is going on with your neighbor, your friend, your family or even who is sleeping next to you. More people suffer from bipolar disorders than you might think. It can be controlled and sufferers can be quite productive - even great achievers. Especially with subacute cases. But under extreme stress, symptoms worsen and destabilization is a risk.
As one who has first hand experience with this, I see this in Hillary. I am not a doctor. I work with the healthcary industry regularly. Maybe my questioning this may be made to look bad. But I believe this suspicion to be founded in fact and worth asking about, regardless of how it looks.
Imagine being a switch hitter and not being able to get your turn at bat with the White House female interns because your husband is always at the plate. Depressing indeed.
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