One day, he was sitting on the floor of his State House office, crying, when his chief of staff walked in. Other times, he'd stay at home, unable to face the day. When he finally sought treatment, after his brother committed suicide, he wanted to pay his psychiatrist in cash, to avoid a paper trail of checks and insurance forms.
For nearly a decade, state Senator Robert A. Antonioni was willing to do almost anything to hide the fact that he was depressed. Now, he is speaking out about it, to residents in his Central Massachusetts district, to television reporters, and next week on the airwaves, in a public service announcement in which he declares, "I have a mental illness."
And once he started to do that, Antonioni got public support, so much that he was astounded.
So maybe one day, there might be a formerly depressed President of the United States in the White House.
Hopefully he'll tell us how bad antidepressants really are.
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