Fetterman giving thumbs up as he gets in car
US Sen. John Fetterman, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, was released from Walter Reed on March 31, 2023.
  • US Sen. John Fetterman was released from Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday.
  • Fetterman, a Pennsylvania Democrat, had been hospitalized in February for severe depression.
  • "I want everyone to know that depression is treatable, and treatment works," Fetterman said Friday.

Senator John Fetterman has returned to his home in Pennsylvania following a five-week hospitalization for severe depression, the Democrat's office announced Friday.

"I am so happy to be home," Fetterman said in a statement. "I'm excited to be the father and husband I want to be, and the senator Pennsylvania deserves."