{"id":727606,"date":"2026-06-26T17:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T17:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/727606\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T17:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T17:31:10","slug":"san-francisco-supervisor-jackie-fielder-discusses-mental-health-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/727606\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco supervisor Jackie Fielder discusses mental health leave"},"content":{"rendered":"

A lefty member of the\u00a0San Francisco Board of Supervisors<\/a>\u00a0who abruptly went on leave at the end of March\u00a0melted into tears as she explained to her constituents Tuesday why she needed the mental health break.<\/p>\n

Supervisor Jacqueline Fielder is set to return<\/a> to work next Monday, after her absence earlier in the year fueled theories on what motivated the first-term lawmaker to go\u00a0missing from City Hall meetings for weeks<\/a>\u00a0before checking herself in for treatment. <\/p>\n

\"JackieJackie Fielder wipes some tears during a video explaining her leave. Instagram\/@jackiefielder_<\/p>\n

\"JackieJackie Fielder wipes some tears during a video explaining her leave. Instagram\/@jackiefielder_<\/p>\n

There were even some reports she intended to resign amid a probe<\/a> into figuring out who was behind an unlawful leak of a confidential memo\u00a0.<\/p>\n

In a Tuesday post on Instagram, Fielder said \u201cI left the work I love so much not because I wanted to but because my mental health demanded it.\u201d<\/p>\n

She thanked her friends, family, and staff, and then began to cry when thanking some of her constituents for their messages of support.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt meant the world to me when I was feeling very alone,\u201d she said. \u201cThis leave and my whole adult life has been an entire journey on mental health and I know I\u2019m not the only one who struggles with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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She seemed to attribute her crisis to the pressures of being a politician.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of the day I\u2019m a human being and a renter, a working class candidate that is now a supervisor,\u201d Fielder said, \u201cbut I was going 100 miles a hour since early 2023 when I started the campaign for supervisor, and being a grassroots candidate is a lot of elbow grease.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her medical leave made her realize that she has colleagues and others who share the weight of representing the city with her, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m coming clear-eyed and grounded and eager to serve in this role again,\u201d said Fielder, who ended her note on encouraging others dealing with mental health issues to also seek help or take a leave.<\/p>\n

The scrutiny over her absence comes as a new website is calling to recall her for her absence. Mission Local reported<\/a> the petition organizer is also involved with other efforts to stop other politicians such as Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee.<\/p>\n

The website claims<\/a> Fielder \u201cabandoned her district while under investigation.\u201d It refers to the probe around the leaked memo as well as an incident last year where she promoted crypto coin \u201c$KITKAT,\u201d <\/a>which supposedly prompted an ethics complaint.<\/p>\n

Fielder declined to comment on the recall petition to Mission Local.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A lefty member of the\u00a0San Francisco Board of Supervisors\u00a0who abruptly went on leave at the end of March\u00a0melted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[97,259,2598,260,7234,111,49326,5284,194],"class_list":["post-727606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mental-illness","tag-mentalhealth","tag-northern-california","tag-politics","tag-recalls","tag-san-francisco","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}