Krantenbericht: Bush aan de pillen

[Dr. Marc-Alexander Fluks]

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 van de democraten ?]


Bron:  Capitol Hill Blue
Datum: 28 juli 2004
URL:   http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_4921.shtml


Bush Taking Anti-Depressants
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President George W. Bush is taking 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.

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(c) 2004 by Capitol Hill Blue

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