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…
