# Do candidates for office ever see mental-health professionals?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-candidates-for-office-ever-see-mental-health-professionals/630955
**Category:** Politics & Elections
**Created:** [August 9, 2012, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-candidates-for-office-ever-see-mental-health-professionals/630955 "2012-08-09T14:18:26Z")
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### Author: ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2012, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-candidates-for-office-ever-see-mental-health-professionals/630955/21 "2012-08-10T14:27:44Z")

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> [@ElvisL1ves](#):
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> ISTM running for high office, or even getting in a position to do so, \*requires \*a psychotic level of ambition and even egomania. A pol who was “cured” of those problems would no longer be a pol.

And we wouldn’t want them in office anyway. A humble politician is as useless as a cowardly soldier.

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