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Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. Home After Being Treated for Bipolar Disorder at Mayo Clinic

Sep. 8, 2012 7:49am Madeleine Morgenstern

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) is home after undergoing extended treatment for bipolar disorder at the Mayo Clinic, his chief of staff said Friday.

“He’s at home in Washington convalescing with his wife and children,” aide Rick Bryant told the Associated Press. “Let’s hope he returns to work on Monday.”

Bryant said he wasn’t sure when exactly Jackson was discharged. A statement from Jackson’s wife said she and her husband were “thankful for the heartfelt prayers and kind thoughts from so many for our family.”

Jackson took medical leave from Congress in June for a then-undisclosed reason. A statement from the Mayo Clinic in July revealed he was undergoing treatment for depression, later amended to be Bipolar II, a disorder involving periodic bouts of depression and hypomania. Hypomania is a less serious form of mania.

The timing of his leave drew scrutiny, as Jackson is currently the focus of a congressional investigation over allegations he offered to raise campaign cash for former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich in exchange for being appointed to Barack Obama’s old Senate seat.

Jackson has not been charged and denies any wrongdoing.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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RJJinGadsden
Posted on September 8, 2012 at 9:48am
Both of him must be looking forward to a full pardon from the Mighty “0″ sometime between November and January. Blago affected even more, and I wonder what will pop up next.

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- SnowKalBebes
  Posted on September 8, 2012 at 10:32am
  Beck’s sheeple are such good, compassionate Christians. I’m sure all of you were at Restoring Love right?
  
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- AJAYW
  Posted on September 8, 2012 at 10:41am
  He has far more problems than that
  
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- HOOT_OWL
  Posted on September 8, 2012 at 11:02am
  SnowKalBebes
  
  Do you mean the kind of Christian love .The people from
  the democratic convention showed Cardinal Timothy Dolan..?
  I know .. .I know …That’s a different kind of Christian. The LIb
  Christians are the Obama kind of Christians..they are The
  ‘Apostate Christian‘.They believe in murdering unborn children
  and homosexual perversion and only invite God to the Party for votes.
  
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- biohazard23
  Posted on September 8, 2012 at 11:16am
  RJ, perhaps an OD on Risperdal if they get close to actually prosecuting him?
  
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- QuincySmith
  Posted on September 8, 2012 at 11:19am
  snow;
  
  I didn’t see you there.
  
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- grimmster
  Posted on September 8, 2012 at 11:29am
  @snowkalbebe aka encinom.
  As long as people like jackson, you, and obama walk this earth, i will have no compassion for anyone on the left,especially those aforementioned…….and evil vile people deserve zero compassion, moron….
  
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- hayesstephen
  Posted on September 8, 2012 at 11:29am
  Now they have gone to darn far!!!!! To quote the article, ” Lets hope he returns to work…..” Now that is an oxymoron. Return to work implies he was working before he started running around in a circle screaming “I’m a little hooka, see my pipe( sung to the tune I’m a little tea pot”.) Now that’s a guy who we need to formulate laws. His handlers need to limit how much illegals he does in a day. “Return to work!!” The guy has never worked a day in his life!!!!! Funny, funny!!!!
  
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- forthepeople
  Posted on September 8, 2012 at 11:44am
  SnowKalBebes : I was there right beside you !
  
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- 1947
  Posted on September 8, 2012 at 11:53am
  This is what the American people VOTED for. How in the world can you call him a LEADER. America has bigger problems.
  
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- Independent4233
  Posted on September 8, 2012 at 12:00pm
  SnowKalBebes
  Posted on September 8, 2012 at 10:32am
  “Beck’s sheeple are such good, compassionate Christians. I’m sure all of you were at Restoring Love right?”
  
  “Restoring ove????”
  
  Is that where you spit in the face of Christians, then declared we should all reject religious “fairy tales” so we can have a paradise on earth?
  
  If I wasn’t aware that Homosexuals can’t think in rational terms naturally, due to their mental disorders, I would think it odd for someone to be so hypocritical after such a display of anti-Christian hatred.
  
  Your problem isn’t Christians, old boy. Your problem is nature itself. If Christians were obliterated from the face of the earth natural law would still influence people into being disgusted and repulsed by homosexuality.
  
  And the ones who hold Muslim/ Buddhists, et al, religious views, would reject you as well.
  
  All homosexuals were put in this plane of existence as punishment for prior life crimes in order to pay their karmic debts. The longer the debt goes unpaid, the longer they will live miserable existences, rejected by humanity as the hateful freaks they are.
  
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- Thevoice
  Posted on September 8, 2012 at 12:59pm
  Looks like medicine is finally getting down to determining the mental cause of what make a “New age progressive commie democrat” …It’s all in a defective brain…You have this idiot Jackson and his wanting a commie constitution …and Barry Obama the anointed one still willing to bankrupt the country destroy prosperity on his quest to heal the planet..Now if this isn’t enough proof these Democratic /Commies have a brain malfunction I don’t know what is ….Even though the Peter you will deny me three times before the rooster crows …Should have been the only sign needed for people to run like hell away from these crazy commies….
  
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- nrse2go
  Posted on September 8, 2012 at 12:59pm
  just another corrupt politician in a long list that justice is never seen. Is there no one leftt with any authority to do anything about it???
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on September 8, 2012 at 2:28pm
  Jackson stayed out of the limelight (mostly) for 2 or 3 months enough so that he had time to decompress. He still has to be around for the last 2 months so the machine & sympathy vote can get him across the finish line in November.
  
  He is hoping for an Obama win so Holder or the machine can squash any further investigation. At which point he will be unrepentant & a future senator.
  
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- The-Obama-Romney-Ticket
  Posted on September 8, 2012 at 3:41pm
  “Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. Home After Being Treated for Bipolar Disorder at Mayo Clinic”
  
  Guess mental illness runs in the family …
  
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- QuincySmith
  Posted on September 8, 2012 at 3:54pm
  tort;
  
  I guess we should cut jr a little slack, considering the dysfunctional upbringing he had.
  
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- Wormwood12
  Posted on September 8, 2012 at 10:37pm
  All of our tickets have been written. Attend to your own plank.
  
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floridareader
Posted on September 8, 2012 at 9:47am
Imagine if the medical leave had been in the Republican side for the very same reason. Princess Pelosi would been broom-flying all over Washington demanding for the congressman / congresswoman to resign due to his or her incapability to legislate.
But of course because Mr. Jackson is a democrat, in mid July (almost two months after Jackson was last seen in the floor of the House) Pelosi told in a CNN interview “he should take all the time he needs”.
Now that everybody knows his condition, he certainly should take ALL the time he needs. Moreover, he has to resign. We already have enough mentally unstable people in Congress.

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- mwhaley
  Posted on September 8, 2012 at 9:55am
  This is normal for the *******.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on September 8, 2012 at 5:39pm
  Just as they did for Robert “Sheets” Byrd, and Teddy Kennedy. There was even talk of allowing Kennedy vote on a bill from his hospital bed. That was quickly nixed though. The Dem-wits will try to get away with anything.
  
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Azzman
Posted on September 8, 2012 at 9:42am
Democrats are cuckoo for Coca-Puffs.

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- Walkabout
  Posted on September 8, 2012 at 2:31pm
  He is depressed because he broke the law & stands a good chance of going to jail.
  
  Once he gets away scot-free, he will be miraculously cured, unless the months of worrying cause physical changes to the brain.
  
  Fore reference purposes only”
  http://ask.yahoo.com/20060712.html
  
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progressiveslayer
Posted on September 8, 2012 at 9:41am
When the FBI showed Jackson some of the dirt they have on him it probably caused his ‘bipolar’
affliction to go into overdrive requiring treatment. Most politicians are criminals but the problem is they write the laws so they never get convicted much less charged of a crime. DC is full of criminal hogs robbing us blind.

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- biohazard23
  Posted on September 8, 2012 at 11:18am
  He’s probably not bipolar, just nervous about possibly going to jail. Either way, he’s still a loser.
  
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- poster
  Posted on September 9, 2012 at 8:56am
  He’s suffering from guilt – if that is even possible for a Jackson.
  
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rightwingheroes
Posted on September 8, 2012 at 9:40am
he should be made to resign his seat, we can’t have diagnosed skitzo’s in congress

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- QuincySmith
  Posted on September 8, 2012 at 11:25am
  I think he will be out of congress next year. I would love to be his Republican opponent running against both of him.
  
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- Mobuy
  Posted on September 8, 2012 at 10:40pm
  He’s not a schizo. That’s a different disorder. He has Bipolar II Disorder. Read the article.
  
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icarenough
Posted on September 8, 2012 at 9:38am
All his “stress” is probably Bush’s fault.

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- Independent4233
  Posted on September 8, 2012 at 4:52pm
  icarenough
  Posted on September 8, 2012 at 9:38am
  “All his “stress” is probably Bush’s fault.”
  
  Yes, either that or slavery two hundred years ago.
  
  Or maybe it is the vicious racism he’s subjected to constantly. Or oppression.
  
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JohnyQ
Posted on September 8, 2012 at 9:36am
Bipolar hmmm , Yeah Right..Just another spoiled Crash and Burn Liberal , because he’s not getting attention .. More like Brat-Syndrome…

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sjohn70037
Posted on September 8, 2012 at 9:34am
Bipolar disorder my a$$.

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- landman1
  Posted on September 8, 2012 at 10:36am
  Bi- POLAR? I bet it does have some connection to the Polar Ice caps as in ….SNOW. Nose candy, blow, toot. Bi -Polar prolly means he can snort “snow” with BOTH nostrils at the same time. Talent!
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on September 8, 2012 at 2:36pm
  Oh I believe he is bi-polar alright. I believe it is cause by all the high & lows he is gong thru waiting for that knock on the door by FBI officials saying that got the goods in him for corruption.
  
  If his daddy wasn’t Jesse Jackson, If he wasn’t black, if he wasn’t a Democrat, If he wasn’t part of or close to the Chicago machine they would have already indicted, convicted & sentenced him.
  The prosecution or lack thereof is in large part on the balance of political power & not so much the evidence.
  
  Must be heII to know if the is a major Republican victory his associates are going to roll on him.
  
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Concernd4USA
Posted on September 8, 2012 at 9:34am
I went to school with this guy and back then he despised his dad and his tactics, until he found out how profitable they could be. He was offered something like $2 million to not protest either pepsi or coke. I think he is as dirty as Blago, Resco, and a slew of other Illinois politicians. Very convenient that when Blago was found guilty, he got sick. The leak was out about an investigation, and I am sure he is going to say he was not responsible for his decisions because he was sick.

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HOOT_OWL
Posted on September 8, 2012 at 9:16am
The experience that I have had with people that suffer from this affliction
Is ,they wield this ‘illness’ like a weapon. Only when they get in trouble at
work or with the law , is when they play the crazy card. And some of them
are getting pretty good at it.

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- poorrichard09
  Posted on September 8, 2012 at 9:26am
  Poor Jesse Jr. just couldn’t handle the disconnect between the 0bummer lies and the truth any longer.
  
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Tri-ox
Posted on September 8, 2012 at 9:12am
So, how long before he’s back on the crack?

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- Vegascelt
  Posted on September 8, 2012 at 9:44am
  Hey Man, not cool. (My coffee came out my nose)
  
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- scootervanneuter
  Posted on September 8, 2012 at 12:14pm
  Oh no you didn’t!
  
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Detroit paperboy
Posted on September 8, 2012 at 9:05am
Just in time for his inauguration …..sorry, I meant indictment !!!!

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nonsense101
Posted on September 8, 2012 at 8:43am
Hopefully the Mayo clinic will be full of depressed democrats come November when they all get the boot

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- Jenny Lind
  Posted on September 8, 2012 at 9:20am
  Made me LOL! Thanks!
  
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- kickagrandma
  Posted on September 8, 2012 at 9:40am
  Thank you!!! YES!!!!
  
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Zurich
Posted on September 8, 2012 at 8:38am
Are there any discounts if the whole Democratic Party gets the same treatment?

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Gonzo
Posted on September 8, 2012 at 8:27am
As Rick James said: “cocaine is a hell of a drug.”

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- jhaydeng
  Posted on September 8, 2012 at 8:43am
  Exactly, but if he is Bi-polar which one do you vote for and which one will be back to work? Sorry Illinois, but if this guy can go back to work after this I would move!
  
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- GrayPanther
  Posted on September 8, 2012 at 10:44am
  How would you know GONZO?
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on September 8, 2012 at 11:49am
  Because I watched The Chappelle Show?
  
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woodyee
Posted on September 8, 2012 at 8:26am
Bipolar disorder? I believe it was drugs, but what does it matter – I just hope he is found well enough to stand trial, and the sooner the better.

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bikerdogred1
Posted on September 8, 2012 at 8:19am
The box of nuts has arrived.

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nonsense101
Posted on September 8, 2012 at 8:14am
Must be heriditary. Jesse Sr has mental issues also.

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- Kneale
  Posted on September 8, 2012 at 1:25pm
  And the daughter that was put on Fox to repay ??? She’s such a wonderful addition to Juan Williams and Bob Beckel, gag. The fair and unbalanced network.
  
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jwpowers41
Posted on September 8, 2012 at 8:11am
Good luck

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jamesjfromli
Posted on September 8, 2012 at 8:09am
So, Rep. Jackson suddenly becomes mentally ill in June, when a possible investigation is going to be launched against him! Then, he takes a Medical Leave of Absence from Congress! Then he’s treated at the Mayo Clinic! Isn’t there a stipulation with Congressmen & Senators, if your duties can’t be fulfilled, then you need to resign your position?

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- dmforman
  Posted on September 8, 2012 at 9:40am
  Sounds like typical Chicago politics to me.
  
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13th Imam
Posted on September 8, 2012 at 8:07am
Not guilty by reason of insanity. Liberalism is a mental disorder.

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oxycontinxx
Posted on September 8, 2012 at 8:04am
mr jackson………while i disagree with your politics, i do wish you a speedy and complete recovery.

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- USALOVER2011
  Posted on September 8, 2012 at 11:42am
  Ohhhhh Oxy, soooo full of compassion for jacson…..But really….really???LOL I hope you’re not serious!!!
  
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loriann12
Posted on September 8, 2012 at 8:01am
I know people with bipolar, and I know it’s no joking matter, but in this case, I have to wonder if he’s just setting up his defense for the ethics committee

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- kickagrandma
  Posted on September 8, 2012 at 9:41am
  You got it…. laying down defense ahead of need…. only liars have to worry about such.
  
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kickagrandma
Posted on September 8, 2012 at 8:01am
As I understand it, one does not “get treated” for bipolar. It is a way of life to be managed throughout life with necessary drugs, exercise and good diet. Adding PRAYER and a relationship with CHRIST to that list would make if a good thing for all of us I suspect.

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- Jenny Lind
  Posted on September 8, 2012 at 9:19am
  Also no alcohal and “recreational” drugs. It is a tough disease to manage too. If Johns Hopkins says he has it, he probably does. My personal guess is stress (acts as “kick off” to this diease) probably made him go over the edge. He has probably had some symptoms for years. I cannot say enough how awfull this disorder is, we have a family member (in-law) who has it. They can go along on meds for chunks of time, then it rears it’s ugly head and while we can joke a little about it, it is a disease that ruins families and families lives, as in children, spouses and all the rest. It is a constant battle and I wish him and his family the best. Jury is out at this point if he should stay in a high stress job.
  
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- Jenny Lind
  Posted on September 8, 2012 at 1:25pm
  ooops ment Mayo clinic.
  
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SCREW-WINDOWS
Posted on September 8, 2012 at 7:58am
So he is now content that prison life won’t be that bad.

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