Bush Taking Anti-Depressents

[The Tower]

Bush Taking Anti-Depressants

Bush Taking Anti-Depressants
By TERESA HAMPTON
Editor, Capitol Hill Blue
Jul 28, 2004, 06:13

President George W. Bush is anti-depressant drugs to control his erratic behavior, Capitol Hill Blue has learned.

The prescription drugs were administered by Col. Richard J. Tubb, the White House physician.

Tubb prescribed the anti-depressants after Bush stalked off stage on July 7, refusing to answer reporters' questions about his relationship with indicted Enron executive Kenneth J. Lay.

Bush’s mental stability has become the topic of Washington whispers in recent months. Capitol Hill Blue first reported on June 4 about increasing concern among White House aides over the President’s wide mood swings and obscene outbursts.

Although GOP loyalists dismissed the reports an anti-Bush propaganda, the reports were later confirmed by prominent George Washington University psychiatrist Dr. Justin Frank in his book Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President. Dr. Frank diagnosed the President as a “paranoid meglomaniac” and “untreated alcoholic” whose “lifelong streak of sadism, ranging from childhood pranks (using firecrackers to explode frogs) to insulting journalists, gloating over state executions and pumping his hand gleefully before the bombing of Baghdad” showcase Bush’s instabilities.

“I was really very unsettled by him and I started watching everything he did and reading what he wrote and watching him on videotape. I felt he was disturbed,” Dr. Frank said. “He fits the profile of a former drinker whose alcoholism has been arrested but not treated.”

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 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.

The White House did not return phone calls seeking comment on this article.

Although the exact drugs Bush takes to control his depression and behavior are not known, White House sources say they are designed to bring his erratic actions under control. While Col. Tubb regularly releases a synopsis of the President’s annual physical, details of the President’s health and any drugs or treatment he may receive are not public record and are guarded zealously by the secretive cadre of aides that surround the President.

Veteran White House watchers say the ability to control information about Bush’s health, either physical or mental, is similar to Ronald Reagan’s second term when aides managed to conceal the President’s increasing memory lapses that signaled the onslaught of Alzheimer’s Disease.

It also brings back memories of Richard Nixon’s final days when the soon-to-resign President wandered the halls and talked to portraits of former Presidents. The stories didn’t emerge until after Nixon left office.

[amber]

Speaking as a fellow Cancer (like GB, who I despisoid) most Cancer's should probably take anti- D's.(Excepting, maybe, the Dalai Lama...he seems ok...) Cancer is supposed to be the "moody" sign, and generally, we are... which is really what "erratic behavior" is. I myself enjoy St. John's Wort ...I just had the heinous thought, however, that this may make him question his rightness less...please, no....hopefully he will be calmer, more peaceful...still, it couldn't change his beliefs... I'm starting to panic... ok, I'm better...see what a fast mood change that was, though? Imagine if someone like me had access to world domination, the button, etc.!!
Amber "my birthday is the same as Mike Tyson's" G.
AMber

[chiffon head]

I'm not a bush supporter, but doesen't this article seem kinda strange? More crap about the Pres. just to ? his sanity right before the election. I've never considered Bush to be in his right mind from the start anyway but I think this article is a bit much.


Renee

[gldstwmn]

He seems to exhibit symptoms of "dry drunk" but then every once in a while, he falls down and scrapes his face. It's long been speculated he has some kind of seizures.

[DeeGeMe]

Y'all know that I'm no huge fan of the current resident of 1600 PA Avenue but I'm not sure how reliable this source is. As someone who takes anti-depressents, I don't think that necessarily makes you crazy either. I do know something about "dry drunks" and I can tell you though that he seems to exhibit a lot of the typical symptoms. It really wouldn't surprise me either to find out that he's got epilepsy--it certainly could explain his frequent slips and falls and mysterious scratches and bruises.

[Nixxxed]

So Bush could be committed any day, and Cheney's heart could stop pumping at any minute ... greaaaaaaaaaaaaat. Who's next in the line of succession -- is it Speaker of the House or Senate Majority Leader?

[sara1998]

The whole administration is f*cked if you ask me.....

[Nixxxed]

I can't wait till Bush's speech Thursday night. If all those protesters have any collective brains, they'll cause such a (peaceful) ruckus that the news networks will have to cover them instead. I hope no one gets hurt and that nothing gets wrecked, of course... (but I'm not that stupid).

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by Nixxxed

So Bush could be committed any day, and Cheney's heart could stop pumping at any minute ... greaaaaaaaaaaaaat. Who's next in the line of succession -- is it Speaker of the House or Senate Majority Leader?

ON EDIT: Speaker of the House (Denny Hastert, oh Jesus) President pro tempore of the Senate (Tad Stevens R Alaska).

[dissention]

Originally Posted by DeeGeMe

Y'all know that I'm no huge fan of the current resident of 1600 PA Avenue but I'm not sure how reliable this source is. As someone who takes anti-depressents, I don't think that necessarily makes you crazy either. I do know something about "dry drunks" and I can tell you though that he seems to exhibit a lot of the typical symptoms. It really wouldn't surprise me either to find out that he's got epilepsy--it certainly could explain his frequent slips and falls and mysterious scratches and bruises.

No matter how partisan it is, Capitol Hill Blue is pretty reliable most of the time. And this particular story was floated around a bit by the mainstream press the day after Bush held a press conference to announce Tenet's resignation. Aparrently, no one on Bush's own staff knew about Tenet's resignation and were Bushwhacked, so to speak, at the press conference and he got into a big riff with one of his staff members while he was walking back into the WH.