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Re: off topic, but important

Posted by Barbaracat on November 16, 2004, at 13:59:57 [reposted on November 17, 2004, at 5:29:32 | original URL]

In reply to Re: off topic, but important, posted by jclint on November 16, 2004, at 7:24:58

> > Oh, and George is taking SSRIs, just so we can stay on topic ;->
>
> Lol, did you make that up? Wouldn't be surprised. At a stupidly high dosage, inhibiting his cognitive functions :)
>
> JFK was famously on a cocktail of psychiatric meds, just to add my bit!

**Yes, JFK was, and no, I didn't make it up about George W's meds. Frankly, I think it's a good idea that someone recognizes the need for him to be taking them. I've considered this whole topic and whether or not this forum is the place to discuss such things (it could get out of hand and off topic of meds rather quickly), but since we've now made the association, let's discuss it.

You can go to any number of sources on the internet and read about the alarm and concern regarding his mental stability and what it means for not only our nation, but globally. But an internet search/source is not where I got my info, but much closer to the horse's mouth. It's no big Deep Throat secret either, but fairly common knowledge up on the Hill. But more like an alarming hot potato topic. People's jobs and livelihoods are at stake - politically and journalistically. I believe that with the resignations of so many cabinet members and others, we'll be hearing a bit more about this in due time.

It is no secret in Washington that Mr. Bush has shown alarmingly unstable, labile, volatile and delusional traits. He is not so much ridiculed as feared. He is known to be on medication, and is taking an array of at least SSRIs. The details about which meds and how much are subject to inaccuracy, but that he is on psychiatric meds is not just a rumor, but hopefully, a good idea that will bear good fruit.

What is alarming, however, is that we, the people, are not allowed access to this information. The government, however, is allowed access to ours. We can no longer afford to be ignorant of the mental or physical state of the holders of offices of this magnitude. Of course, it's not savvy to broadcast info that can cause political backlash, and this is why we are not privy to it. But the people of this country should have access to what medications the president and V.P. are taking and why. We hear sketchy results of their yearly White House physicals. Why not a yearly psychiatric exam administered by a top-notch non-partisan team of psychiatrists? The mental stability of the presidential administration is everybody's business. Urine tests are required for most jobs these days. Not so with the presidency.

There is an interesting book by a D.C. psychoanalyst and professor of psychiatry "Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of a President" by Justin A. Frank. Very insightful, enlightening, and disturbing - that our country has come to this. But I'm under no delusions that anyone who really needs to or should read it ever will.


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