Capitol Hill Blue: Bush using drugs to control depression

[username]

Not that there's anything wrong with that, if true, but these articles suggest that GWB may be losing it big time. Anyway...read the articles for yourself, consider the source, etc.

Sullen, Depressed President Retreats Into Private, Paranoid World
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_4930.shtml

Bush Using Drugs to Control Depression, Erratic Behavior
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_4921.shtml

[Stew225]

1. It seems obvious to me that he should be on a

antipsychotic drip.

[salonghorn70]

2. Accusing Anyone of Taking Anti-Depressants is Serious

Whether it is Bush or your next door neighbor, this is a very serious charge. Not one single person is quoted by name to confirm the story. What if the Repubs were saying this about Kerry?

[indigobusiness]

3. Two doctors are mentioned by name.

That could help flesh this out.

I would agree with you in general, but this is about a man that has led a country into a bloody war of adventure.


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Dr. Justin Frank, a prominent Washington psychiatrist and author of the book, Bush on the Couch, Inside the Mind of the President, says the President suffers from “character pathology,” including “grandiosity” and “megalomania” – viewing himself, America and God as interchangeable.

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The prescription drugs, administered by Col. Richard J. Tubb, the White House physician, can impair the President’s mental faculties and decrease both his physical capabilities and his ability to respond to a crisis, administration aides admit privately.

“It’s a double-edged sword,” says one aide. “We can’t have him flying off the handle at the slightest provocation but we also need a President who is alert mentally.”

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Dr. Frank’s conclusions have been praised by other prominent psychiatrists, including Dr. James Grotstein, Professor at UCLA Medical Center, and Dr. Irvin Yalom, MD, Professor Emeritus at Stanford University Medical School.

The doctors also worry about the wisdom of giving powerful anti-depressant drugs to a person with a history of chemical dependency. Bush is an admitted alcoholic, although he never sought treatment in a formal program, and stories about his cocaine use as a younger man haunted his campaigns for Texas governor and his first campaign for President.

“President Bush is an untreated alcoholic with paranoid and megalomaniac tendencies,” Dr. Frank adds.