“And then you’ve got all the people out there who are going to make money off of that, so they take advantage of it. That ramps up the anger and ramps up the discord. You’re not really just angry about that situation you’ve got these deep-seated things inside of you that you haven’t dealt with.
“Is that anger really about the fact that they really didn’t like, the health care bill, or might that anger be coming out of other frustrations in their lives? I think we’ve all been there - it’s, like, depending on a whole lot of really bad things that happen in a given day: Something’s going on with you, and then your spouse or your kid does something and you overreact to it. On the constantly angry tenor of modern politics:
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You can listen to the full interview on this week’s Playbook Deep Dive podcast. Smith came away from the experience having learned a number of lessons, and we dug deep on not only his long and winding road of treatment but also what he’s learned about health care, prescription drugs, Buddhism, meditation, psychotherapy and the mental state of extreme partisans in American politics. Smith’s story will likely resonate with a lot of high-achieving people in D.C., where discussing mental health and physical ailments can still be seen as taboo. I had been fighting some combination of these battles for just over three years at this point, and I didn’t think I could do it for one more day.”
The combination of crippling anxiety, chronic pain, muscle atrophy, and the fascinating mix of pharmaceuticals coursing through my body had, I feared, finally broken me. “Early one morning in April of 2016, I woke up and seriously contemplated the possibility that I would never be able to generate the strength, focus, and courage to get out of bed. That’s the subject of Smith’s new book, “Lost and Broken.” Here are the first lines to give you a taste of how raw and deeply personal the prose is: We talked to him recently for over an hour, and got into the weeds on the usual Capitol Hill intrigue: whether this will be the year Congress fails to pass a defense bill, the continuing fallout in the House from the debt limit deal, and whether Speaker KEVIN McCARTHY can rustle up enough Republican votes to avoid a government shutdown this fall.īut we spent most of our time with Smith discussing issues you don’t often hear a congressman open up about: his journey suffering through - and eventually overcoming - debilitating mental and physical illness. THE PLAYBOOK INTERVIEW : ADAM SMITH - As the ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, Smith, a 14-term congressman from Seattle, is in the middle of this week’s unusually messy process to clear the NDAA.
ZUCKERBERG - CHRIS CHRISTIE, asked by PIERS MORGAN if he could win a fight in the octagon with DONALD TRUMP: “The guy is 78 years old. NDAA LATEST - NYT: “House Votes to Limit Abortion Access in the Military, Bowing to the Right” … WaPo: “House GOP moves to end Pentagon’s abortion, diversity policies” … WSJ: “House GOP Threatens to Derail Defense Bill Over Abortion, Transgender Care” Adam Smith (D-Wash.) discussing issues you don’t often hear a congressman open up about: his journey suffering through - and eventually overcoming - debilitating mental and physical illness.
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