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)
A lack of serotonin is found in people with depression. I have not studied up on it to see ‘which comes first’. Does the lack of serotonin help cause the depression or does the depression cause the lack of serotonin. Interesting.
If you have never had that deep, dark, nasty, hurts in your guts stuff, then you are indeed fortunate muawiyah. I hope it stays that way for you!!
Thank you for posting this information muawiyah!
Jones is not a priest. He is a pastor, Methodist Church.
And yes, the Methodist Church embraced left issues. But embracing the struggle for civil rights was not a leftist issue. Sure left wingers infiltrated and used the civil rights movement for their own purposes. But all who were involved in the civil rights movement were not leftist radicals.
But the Methodist Church has always been about deeds, good deeds and social activism.
Nobody even mentions Reagan’s altzheimers. I think it was evident in his last term.
a depressed person with nuclear warheads .... yippee
Better Reagan with Alzheimers than Clinton on Prozac.
I see some comments about Reagan’s alzheimers from time to time. Probably out of our affection for Reagan we do not dwell upon it.
I have no doubt that Reagan was “depressed” when he learned he had it. Poor Nancy probably lived her life depressed because of it and then over his death.
Who can doubt that a single President didn’t have some trials in his personal life that caused “sadness”.
Depression is part of early Altzheimers as are a host of other mental problems.
I think that Hillary has so much to criticize her for that going this route is not a good thing. When attacked on this issue, she will get sympathy. Depression is twice as common in women as men and that will only help her.
Let this stand out there and let others raise the questions.
BTW, they were moonbats from the left, not plants from the GOP
Well, neither is good for the country in different ways.
Whether Clinton was depressed or not, we don’t want her.
Oh, I love it! Booed!! That is great.
Negative. Feeling “sad” and going through clinical depressions are two vastly different things. One is the sign of normal mental health. The other is the exact opposite. No pass.
She certainly does not get a pass on this one. If she did not want to take the hits she should have stayed out of politics. Especially, a run for the most powerful political position in the world. She is fair game for any truths that may come out.
Try applying for a security clearance and admitting to bouts of clinical depression. See how far you get.
“Took him a while to figure that out.”
He could have just cut to the chase and said she’s insane.
Have you noticed that this medical records issue generally seems to be more of a problem for Dem candidates?
[this route is not a good thing. When attacked on this issue, she will get sympathy.]
I agree with you on this issue.
I was just reading through some of the posts, which I had not done earlier and I came and replied to a ping.
As you wrote, depression can and does happen to a vast number of people. Becoming psychotic from severe depression is a whole different matter.
People have different personalities, some are “up” all the time and some do not have an optimistic nature. I don’t know if that is an inborn thing or a learned thing but I know it to be true.
Wait until the primaries are over...
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