Apparently, some U.K. politicians have been attributing some bad behavior to clinical depression and other forms of mental illness. As writer Minette Martin sees it, this shouldn't be just a card to pull out of the hole when politicians want to cover their buttocks. In reality, the public needs to know when a politician is suffering from this potentially-fatal class of illnesses. But if a politician just wants sympathy, it's quite an inappropriate way to handle the problem. Article