it's always nice when they can state so emphatically the ethos of the entire republican party

hospitalization for depression and exhaustion - wowee - would Dewhurst have said anything if Patrick had been in hospital for say a chest infection?

Sadly the stigma surrounding mental health is still very much alive - it is time that people realized that emotional health is just as much a problem as physical health and we should care that people with mental health problems deserve as much compassion, respect and care as those with physical health problems.

Thanks.

We might want to know if someone received treatment for schizophrenia, addiction, anger management, OCD, phobias, or suicidal depression.
The stigma from receiving treatment for mental health issues is unfortunate, but it is also an unfortunate truth that a person's mental health does affect the decisions he or she makes.
We ask that the state restrict access to guns for some mental health issues. Shouldn't we also consider a person's mental health before providing them with authority over government resources, or in the case of the Executive Branch, access to nuclear weapons?

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I have a friend who had postpartum psychosis and heard voices telling her to kill her baby. She voluntarily went to Yale New Haven Hospital where she was admitted and stayed for a while for treatment. Luckily, her husband could care for the baby and she had follow up treatment. It was a harrowing story...

I do hope your friend and her family are doing well.

She's super bright...went to Yale Divinity School and once considered becoming an Episcopal priest. Now she's a writer.

He appears to be something of a dick in his politics, but a few happy pills in the eighties is quite seriously not a big deal. Given the times he probably did a mountain of blow on the side, but nobody keeps records on that.

"They" will keep records then use it against you later and even mock you.

Why give "them" leverage?

If you have a mental illness, the best thing to do is keep it to yourself and tell no one.

Sounds like his style

Dewhurst is very much an establishment politician --- the kind of slime that infest both sides of the isle, BTW.

Rove and Jeb Bush, etc, support him.

Probably the ONLY thing I agree with the tea-bagger types is the need for a house cleaning at all levels of government.

Where we part ways, of course, is what to replace them with. Patrick is not the answer.

Meaning, voters understand the value of such heathcare....Patrick can make this a positive if Dewhearst pushes the subject. Especially, with 30 years of success post treatment...

It's down right mythical!

On a serious note, I am glad he did. More people should. I hope the treatment he got helped him.

They have PERSPECTIVE and can recognize problems.... most others just funnel their F'ed upness into trying to screw others to make themselves feel good again ...for a few hours - then they need to do it again and again....

Dewhurst should be ashamed but I doubt he has the capacity to feel shame

He needs to seek further help for his condition.

in a horrendous illness, regardless.

You don't get a free kick at someone because he/she has spent time getting help with a problem too big to overcome without help. A person who seeks help is certainly more concerned about getting beyond his trouble than someone who insists upon being trouble to others.

Truly ugly unstable people leave it to others to get out of their road, and learn to duck before they go off on them. They train their family members and acquaintances to learn their moods for self-defense or simple survival.

There are many of us who are all too familiar of being around people like that. They are NOT saner than this man at all because they don't seek help, and usually they skate through life leaving it to everyone around them to get out of their way, and a whole lot of inner suffering within those who have learned to hate them.

Sounds like the kind of person who would run over the neighbor's dog just for the hell of it.

BFEE trained, the rats' Pruneface Raygun in 1988 said he wouldn't call Michael Dukakis an "invalid" for undergoing counseling after the hit-and-run death of his brother.

http://articles.latimes.com/1988-08-03/news/mn-6862_1_medical-records

Since when?

George McGovern got rid of Senator Eagleton from the VP in the 1972 election because he had been treated for mental exhaustion. Neither party has gone there since.

We have been forced to move ahead in order to win. The rethugs have been going backwards and they think hating is good. For us it has change for the better for them it is all about going back to the day when intelligence was an option.

But has either party put someone on the ticket since then who has been treated for mental issues?

Dan Patrick is a nut case

Jerry Patterson lost to Dan Patrick and is the one who leaked this information http://www.juanitajean.com/2014/05/16/too-far/