Could a candidate with depression or anxiety win a election in 2019? (user search)
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  Could a candidate with depression or anxiety win a election in 2019? (search mode)
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Junior Chimp
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« on: October 09, 2019, 07:52:19 PM »
Back in the 1972 election, the Nixon campaign leaked info about VP nominee Thomas Eagleton being diagnosed with depression and receiving electric shock therapy. The nation was stunned, and Eagleton had to resign. Since then the country has come a long way in being more compassionate towards mental illness. High schools in Oregon give kids mental health days off for anxiety. There is still a prejudice against people using antidepressants medications though.

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Junior Chimp
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« Reply #1 on: October 09, 2019, 08:58:54 PM »
Quote from: Kingpoleon on October 09, 2019, 08:13:59 PM
I don’t know, it seems like it would hinder their campaigning ability.

Jason Kander did admit publicly that he was suffering from PTSD and having to undergo treatment. That was after he lost the election though. Things would have been different had he been a sitting Senator.
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