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Depression is the new rehab

My bet is on a suicide attempt by slitting wrists. Couldn’t go out in public to campaign, so holed up until the cuts healed.

What I was trying to say is he should do to everything he can to ensure everyone gets the same level of support that he had and he should be open about his problems to help remove the stigma of mental illness. And more importantly good luck with your treatment.

Anybody else speculate that he tried to kill himself once he realized he couldn't look in the mirror without vomiting?

"mental health care for me but not for thee"

I wish my loved ones with depression could fuck off all their responsibilities and get treated for 4 months!!! Must be nice to live in whatever world he’s in!

Maybe his wife beats him!

Well, if he's lying about why he was absent, he's totes back to normal.

Inpatient, of course. Autocorrect issue.

Could you pull off even one week? Week missing work, the medical bills that come with that, house/family responsibilities, etc.

Maybe he was afraid of suffering from recession on top of depression.

Excellent point.

But you're a REPUBLICAN, they don't believe in "mind illnesses." And if they put you on SSRIs, then you're trans and a mass shooter-in-waiting (according to MAGA who want no gun regulations of any kind).

You are a private person and yet you are a representative. Fucking BS.

Was continuing to make stock trades from the hospital part of the cure?

another let them eat cake moment. None of us could have the same benefits. Now look his record for Healthcare for the REST of Americans!

Yet he and his fellow GOP have cut people off Medicaid and decreased rural health care. F him. This is outrageous! Ask a Veteran who no longer has mental health care because of the slashing of budgets and jobs! 🤬

didn't he still manage to make stock trades (probably using insider info) during his absence? well enough to make lots of $, but not to do anything else.

Something is fishy here. I don’t buy it. Who goes that quickly into and out of a depression that requires hospitalization? It feels like a coverup…and I’m not even paranoid.

And yet daily thousands of Americans go to work with crushing depression. Sorry Kean. Unless you’re advocating for ACA reinstatement and expanded mental health care - go fuck yourself. We want our money back.

Well I learnt a lot from it but remeber the story was he had a serious illness and close to death …

It must me nice to waste Tax payer money to take months off for being depressed... meanwhile I was up for hours last night, got 4 hours of sleep and had to get up and go to work at 7am this morning.

He was hiking the Appalachian Trail with former SC governor Sanford... Was willing to feel for the guy, but learning Kean has a history of taking the standard GOP line on healthcare dampens those thoughts.

He’s depressed because he’s a republican

Agreed. Rehab perhaps. Drug or alcohol addiction?

This is how it works for rich people though. They can spend all the time in the hospital that they can pay for.

Rehab?

So he was probably actively suicidal. It should be acceptable and reasonable for people to be in the hospital for depression. The problem is he thinks some folks don't deserve care.

If it wasn’t rehab, it was some kind of psychotic episode and it took time to stabilize him on meds. 4 months for “depression” just doesn’t sound right.

My guess is the same. There’s too many holes in this storyline. IF he had a potentially harmful depressive episode, maybe the position is inherently too stressful.

There are private places that wealthy people can go to for mental health or addictions, where they can stay for weeks or months.

Plastic details

BS. Something else going on. Keep digging.

What a horrible man

I say Fire his Ass!

Exactly! Unless he is One Flew Over The Cukoo's Nest level, otherwise I'll take Things That Never Happened for $10,000 Alex.

So I abandoned my constituents and left them without representation, while I kept trading stocks.

I honestly thought the writers of "Fascist Days" had just removed him from the series.

Tom Kean's absence blamed on depression caused by service to child rapist criminal Trump?

Overthrowing the country can cause depression.

So he's back for trump's great depression. 🤭

Not buying it.

with depression who are in no position to simply remove themselves from the public eye - entirely forgoing work and society - in order to take care of themselves. So is he "cured", or is he going to disappear again?

Will he resign?

Check his browser history! 😝

I’ll bet his embrace of the GOP’s bigotry and anti-Americanism is what caused his depression. Guilt has a way of eating at a person.

If depression hospitalized real people most of us wouldn’t be here. Weak ass excuse from a weak ass man.

Must be nice to be able to do that on the taxpayers’ dime when those same taxpayers can’t get the same treatment. He needs to resign.

What a btch.

I'm smelling some big bull💩

I think maybe you are misunderstanding the discourse in the responses

I agree that severe, treatment-resistant depression is a thing, and it can be debilitating for long periods. What troubles me, though, is his phrasing, “given the diagnosis.” When the occasion arises, I say, “I had cancer,” not that someone else labeled me with it.” Ditto depression.

Also this:

Unfortunately this is not a the era of Polyanna thinking. If Kean was a Democrat the GOP would have him removed. When Lloyd Austin was MIA for 2 weeks for prostate surgery GOP lost their shit. When children are shot in their classrooms we get thoughts and prayers, not gun control. Sorry not sorry.

You were in rehab for drugs.

Good question. Was his doctor present at this performance?

BS.

As a constituent of his I can tell you that we are all suffering from depression at his crappy and corrupt way of doing his job, or rather not doing anything at all. GTFO Tom Kean Jr!

He's not talking all that clearly either, is he? Does he always sound like this?

Lucky he has access to some of the best healthcare... that most all of his constituents don't.

“The Doctor also recommended I shouldn’t tell anyone I wouldn’t be coming to work, or give up an anxiety-producing job and let someone else actually do it … for medical reasons. Constantly hiding from the press and being pressured to lie about it is part of the depression cure.”

The Rs will call him strong for this, but if he were a D they'd call him weak.

Yes, but see: Fetterman

H F S.

Trading stocks

If only we all had the same insurance. This fuck voted to gut the ACA.

I didn’t get a hospital stay! I did get counseling when my wife passed away. And I carried on with my adult responsibilities like work, and maintaining my home, parenting. You all know whats involved. Betcha it was more like strapped down to a bed to protect him from hurting him self.

If he's talking to donors, particularly corporate ones, he doesn't have to tell them what he believes. He just has to tell them he'll do what they tell him to do. Many members of Congress are just shills for the rich.

So this motherfucker gets to take MONTHS off, still collect a paycheck and his health insurance benefits...while everybody else who suffers from their mental health risks losing their job for taking a "me" DAY. He'll still vote to strip children and the elderly of essential care and protections...

He will now...without a hint of self-awareness...proceed to support Project 2025's plans for concentration/work camps for the homeless, mentally ill and addicted.

Dr. Oz says you should just go for a walk.

This doesn't fully ad up. Long term hospitalization for depression is more than unusual. Short term stays might imply immediate suicide risk, an inability to function (feed, care), or psychotic symptoms. Longer term, people are turfed to residential programs. Kean hasn't finished explaining.

Nobody has heard anything in 2 weeks

🤞🏼

Time off without an explanation.

💯

He’s clearly using this as an excuse so when those of us on the left continue to question or scrutinize it the republicans can act like they give a fuck about mental health and demand we stop talking about it.

Who gets hospitalized for depression?

I don’t believe that helps. Work gives you purpose and routine.

Harming yourself ... or OTHERS. Many criminals who commit violent acts have depression or other psychiatric illnesses.

He needs to plead insanity.

If you need to spend 3 months in a hospital for depression, and therefore not do your job, you should forfeit your position. It would be one thing if people knew but he and the Republicans hid it.

We paid for that.

He has family wealth.

A real quick googlemachine search would clear this up, they’re required to use the ACA.

Walter Reed here I come!!!

Their plans have to be the same as the gold plan. Which is...golden.

Is this true? I’ve never heard that.

Check your plan- they may not be required to cover telehealth, but they’re definitely required to cover inpatient psychiatric care if a physician says it’s medically necessary. How much that still could cost depends on the plan.

You did.

This ’convo’ is about depression. Maybe you should find a more sunshiney discussion.

It might just be me but this sounds suicidal tendencies to me.

Yes, that our money can buy.

And got paid as well. If it were us? No job, huge debt if we could even get care. This needs to change