Ben Terris

Now, Walter Reed is really tough. He gets there and he's experiencing these kind of delusions early on while he's there. If he takes a bed at the hospital, he might get arrested. He tells doctors that he thinks his family is wearing a wire.

He has this belief all of a sudden that he has to break out of his room because there's a political rally happening in the lobby of Walter Reed and he has to get there. At this point, doctors are a little worried about what's going on. And over the course of his time at the hospital, they change his medication. His mental health struggles go into, quote, remission.

He has this belief all of a sudden that he has to break out of his room because there's a political rally happening in the lobby of Walter Reed and he has to get there. At this point, doctors are a little worried about what's going on. And over the course of his time at the hospital, they change his medication. His mental health struggles go into, quote, remission.

He has this belief all of a sudden that he has to break out of his room because there's a political rally happening in the lobby of Walter Reed and he has to get there. At this point, doctors are a little worried about what's going on. And over the course of his time at the hospital, they change his medication. His mental health struggles go into, quote, remission.

He starts taking visitors, starts doing the job from there. And when he comes out, like, he's the best he's been in a really long time.

He starts taking visitors, starts doing the job from there. And when he comes out, like, he's the best he's been in a really long time.

He starts taking visitors, starts doing the job from there. And when he comes out, like, he's the best he's been in a really long time.

How long does that last? He's in the hospital for six weeks. He gets out and for, I mean, look, the thing about mental health struggles is you can have good days and you can have bad days. You can have good weeks, you can have bad weeks. It's impossible to pinpoint exactly when things were good and bad because it could be good in the morning and bad in the afternoon.

How long does that last? He's in the hospital for six weeks. He gets out and for, I mean, look, the thing about mental health struggles is you can have good days and you can have bad days. You can have good weeks, you can have bad weeks. It's impossible to pinpoint exactly when things were good and bad because it could be good in the morning and bad in the afternoon.

How long does that last? He's in the hospital for six weeks. He gets out and for, I mean, look, the thing about mental health struggles is you can have good days and you can have bad days. You can have good weeks, you can have bad weeks. It's impossible to pinpoint exactly when things were good and bad because it could be good in the morning and bad in the afternoon.

But staff I talked to said the first months that he's back are great. I mean, he's diving into the job. He's getting a lot of rightful credit for the work he's doing with mental health.

But staff I talked to said the first months that he's back are great. I mean, he's diving into the job. He's getting a lot of rightful credit for the work he's doing with mental health.

But staff I talked to said the first months that he's back are great. I mean, he's diving into the job. He's getting a lot of rightful credit for the work he's doing with mental health.

I mean, honestly, people believe, and it makes sense to me, that he could have saved lives, right? When somebody like him, A, a politician who's at the top of his career, a high-functioning type A type job, can admit that they're going through something, it gives permission for a lot of people to think, oh, maybe I'm going through something. Maybe I should reach out for help.

I mean, honestly, people believe, and it makes sense to me, that he could have saved lives, right? When somebody like him, A, a politician who's at the top of his career, a high-functioning type A type job, can admit that they're going through something, it gives permission for a lot of people to think, oh, maybe I'm going through something. Maybe I should reach out for help.

I mean, honestly, people believe, and it makes sense to me, that he could have saved lives, right? When somebody like him, A, a politician who's at the top of his career, a high-functioning type A type job, can admit that they're going through something, it gives permission for a lot of people to think, oh, maybe I'm going through something. Maybe I should reach out for help.

And so it's great for a while, but it's around that time that things in the office start to kind of go south.

And so it's great for a while, but it's around that time that things in the office start to kind of go south.

And so it's great for a while, but it's around that time that things in the office start to kind of go south.

Yeah, I mean, it certainly is. He had talked about Israel in the past and said that he was a pro-Israel guy, which was a pretty standard democratic position for a very long time. But after October 7th, he makes it like his issue in a way that it never had been before.