John Fetterman is sharing his personal mental health story in a new book out Tuesday, hoping to help the millions of others struggling with depression in our country.

In "Unfettered," the senator from Pennsylvania is honest about a question he posed while on the campaign trail and talked about it to CBS Mornings.

Fetterman said at times, he still thinks about suicide, but what steers him away is the impact he knows it would have on his wife and his kids.

"The most dangerous conversation with yourself in the throes of depression is it convinces you that it's better for you to leave," Fetterman told CBS Mornings. "Whoever in your life, they need you. They need you. And it woke me up."

An excerpt of the new memoir published in The Free Press reveals Fetterman's raw account of having a

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