Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) said Sunday that social media served as “an accelerant” for his clinical depression, to the point that doctors advised him to stay off of it.
According to him, social media “absolutely” made his battle with depression worse.
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His doctors weren’t the only ones telling him not to use it, he added. “Everybody told me that,” he shared on NBC News’s Meet the Press.
Fetterman said he had mostly stayed off of it prior to his hospitalization, but he made “the mistake” of checking it in late 2022. “It wasn’t the things said, because I assumed that those were—but it was the volume, the volume, just the — I mean, like, where is this coming from? Like, where can there be so much of it? It’s, like, would this be the rest of my life? Look what it’s done to me,” he recalled.
“More importantly, what has this done to my family?” he asked. “My kids are afraid to go back—they left social media behind, and we stopped posting family pictures and things like that.”
After spending several weeks in Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to treat his depression after entering office, Fetterman says he is coping better with it.
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He revealed that he is “selectively” back on social media “Maybe to post something.”
“I would just warn anybody that — social media — I’ve never noticed anyone to believe that their health — their mental health has been supported by spending any kind of time on social media,” he continued.
