Why? Easy.
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When Howard Dean agreed to be interviewed by PEOPLE magazine during the runup to the USA presidential election in January 2004, he sealed his fate by talking publicly about his medical history of anxiety attacks. No man or woman who admits to having had anxiety attacks in the past will ever be allowed near the White House throne, and Dr. Dean's fate is now sealed. The American public (and media) will never allow him to become president. Look at these questions and answers from PEOPLE magazine and you will see why the writing is now on the wall: Howard Dean is now unelectable in a country like the USA where anxiety attacks are looked down upon as signs of weakness and neurosis (when in fact they are not).
PEOPLE: And ... when you were having anxiety attacks in Vermont, what were those like?
Howard: It was not a big deal. I was just anxious and I didn't know why.
Q: So it wasn't a paralyzing --
Howard: No. Not a bit. I didn't miss a day of work. I didn't worry about what was going to happen. I just wasn't sure what was going on and then I traced it to my brother.
Q: Through counseling?
Howard: Yeah.
Q: Was that hard, for someone ...
Howard: No, it actually was great. It was really helpful. I mean, I like that kind of stuff. I had done a lot of it -- I learned a lot about it in medical school. I had done some during my psychiatry rotations, so it was actually a terrific experience. It wasn't easy. You've got to work and you've got to uncover things that matter to you. And of course, we talked a lot about my father and all that other stuff.
Q: Was it just talking it through or were you ever medicated?
Howard: No. It was just anxiety.
Q: Well, today, you say the word 'anxiety' and there are eight or nine different anti-anxiety drugs --
Howard: I'm not a big fan of most anti-anxiety drugs, just because they have addiction potential and things like that. You know, once in a while, I take stuff for sleep. That makes sense. But, listen, I don't want to dispense medical advice in PEOPLE magazine. The anti-anxiety drugs are very good for people who --
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Q: And since then, it was as if you went in, you took care of the problem and that has never been a problem since?
Howard: No. That was in the early eighties.
Q: It sounds as if you had a little bit of an anxiety attack when you got the word that you were now governor.
Howard: I did. I hyperventilated and I started hyperventilating and I thought, 'You better stop that or you won't be much good to anybody.'
Q: Has that happened since, or before?
Howard: No.
Q: Why was that such a --
Howard: To suddenly get told that you have responsibility for 600,000 people -- it provokes a little anxiety.
Q: But now you're asking for responsibility for 250 million and then, the global reach of the U.S. presidency. That doesn't provoke a little anxiety?
Howard: No. I mean I wouldn't be doing it if I didn't -- First of all, I think everybody has a little anxiety when they approach a job like that....
