John Fetterman Returns to Senate After Leave for Depression - World-Wire

John Fetterman Returns to Senate After Leave for Depression - World-Wire

Democrat John Fetterman, from Pennsylvania, left the Senate in the middle of February to seek treatment for clinical depression. He feels that he should be open and honest about the illness. After it nearly destroyed his candidature, Fetterman didn’t want his stroke to define his time in the Senate. According to him, “Depression has kind of become like a policy [priority],” he told The Washington Post. “I want to do this if it helps even one per…