Deans' stroke musings: Sen. John Fetterman has been hospitalized with depression. Here is what to know about the common but serious disorder.

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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Sunday, February 19, 2023

Sen. John Fetterman has been hospitalized with depression. Here is what to know about the common but serious disorder.

All because his doctors and therapists have no plan to get him 100% recovered. Nothing here even remotely suggests that the hospital failed him.

Sen. John Fetterman has been hospitalized with depression. Here is what to know about the common but serious disorder.

Fetterman also suffered a stroke last May and was hospitalized last week due to “lightheadedness.” Stroke is a known risk factor for depression.

Senator John Fetterman, who this week sought hospital care for depression, recently attended at the 28th Annual Martin Luther King Day of Service at Girard College on Monday, January 16, 2023.Alejandro A. Alvarez / Staff Photographer

by Abraham Gutman

Published Feb 16, 2023

Sen. John Fetterman’s longtime struggle with depression became more “severe” in recent weeks and prompted him to seek hospital care, his chief of staff said in a statement Thursday. The Democratic senator from Pennsylvania checked himself into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Wednesday night to receive treatment.

Fetterman also suffered a stroke last May and was hospitalized last week due to what staff described as lightheadedness.

“I think it really brave for him to share [his depression], because it normalizes it a bit more for people who might be experiencing it and not talking about it,” said Kelly Gilrain, a licensed clinical psychologist and director of behavioral medicine and psychological services at Cooper University Health Care.

Gilrain is one of three health-care providers who did not take care of Fetterman but spoke to The Inquirer about depression generally. Here are answers to some common questions:

What is clinical depression?

Clinical depression is a psychiatric mood disorder that is both common and serious. A major depressive episode is defined as having multiple symptoms of depression for at least two weeks.

What differentiates depression from just feeling sad is that the disorder impairs people’s ability to complete everyday tasks, such as their work and usual routines.