{"id":51393,"date":"2024-04-26T17:29:08","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T07:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=51393"},"modified":"2024-04-26T17:29:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T07:29:08","slug":"australian-ex-pm-reveals-he-was-on-meds-for-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=51393","title":{"rendered":"Australian ex-PM reveals he was &#8216;on meds&#8217; for anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Australia&#8217;s former conservative prime minister Scott Morrison has revealed he took medication for &#8220;debilitating&#8221; anxiety while in office, in a media interview published Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Morrison, whose conservative coalition lost power in May 2022, told The Australian newspaper that the anxiety he experienced in office was &#8220;debilitating and agonising.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 55-year-old evangelical Christian governed for four years managing crises such as the Covid-19 pandemic, and the widespread 2019-2020 Black Summer bushfires.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it just built up,&#8221; Morrison told the paper.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a very stressful period,&#8221; he said, citing long hours, the pandemic and difficult relations with China, which imposed trade barriers on major Australian exports during his term.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re flesh and blood and so it would start to impact you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Morrison was prescribed medication for anxiety by a doctor in Canberra, the paper said, also citing excerpts from his new book to be released in May, &#8220;Plans for Your Good: A Prime Minister&#8217;s Testimony of God&#8217;s Faithfulness&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&#8217;s former conservative prime minister Scott Morrison has revealed he took medication for &#8220;debilitating&#8221; anxiety while in office, in a media interview published Friday. Morrison, whose conservative coalition lost power in May 2022, told The Australian newspaper that the anxiety he experienced in office was &#8220;debilitating and agonising.&#8221; The 55-year-old evangelical Christian governed for four [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1289],"class_list":["post-51393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-australian-ex-pm-reveals-he-was-on-meds-for-anxiety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}