President Biden has issued support for John Fetterman after the Pennsylvania senator checked himself into a Washington, D.C., hospital to be treated for clinical depression this week.
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I suspect his "light headedness" that they were worried that it was another stroke, was actually an
anxiety attack.
My mom gets those, often when dehydrated. You don't take care to eat and drink when you have depression and anxiety.
It presents like a stroke or a heart attack. My mom would have this happen, the doctors would run her through all the tests. Nothing. Turns out it was anxiety.
The doctors were not looking for anxiety, just declare her heart was fine, blood markers showed nothing, lungs were fine, no brain bleeds, MRI, and CT scans all were normal. After doing the heart monitor back pack thing, with no signs of irregular heart, with no results that explained her symptoms... I had to point out how it was happening more often, that they never were looking at anxiety. (I had a friend who thought she was having a heart attack... after 5 days in the hospital, they figured out it was anxiety.) I directly asked the doctors if my mom might be having the same problem as my friend did. Once they considered that... we made progress getting mom stabilized.
Until I
pushed the anxiety issues, the doctors were looking for medical issues, not psychological issues. Once we all agreed that for a woman in her 80's she was physically healthy, then we were able to get her some help for anxiety.
Since then, no more passing out weakness, heart feeling like it is rushing, head feeling like an egg splattered on it... all the symptoms she told the ambulance people and doctors about, time after time, have gone away with identifying it as anxiety, and treatment with some pills they give to athletes and actors for stage fright or to help with stress of a big game. She can take the pills when she has these feelings, or when there is something stressful for her to deal with. It reduces the heart rate and helps with blood pressure as I understand it.
So I would bet last week when Fetterman checked himself into the hospital for lightheadedness, it was probably an anxiety attack, but doctors don't look for that.