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Abraham Lincoln’s “Melancholy”
The man many consider to be the greatest President in the history of the United States suffered from clinical depression sometimes so severe that he contemplated suicide.
Many historians and modern clinicians, using the accepted diagnostic criteria, believe that Abraham Lincoln was dogged by clinical depression throughout his life, even during the days of the Civil War.
Lincoln‘s Clinical Depression: A Future President Struggles to Cope
Perhaps the most famous chronicler of Lincoln’s major depression is historian Joshua Wolf Shenk, author of “Lincoln’s Melancholy.” Shenk writes, “He told jokes at odd times - he needed the laughs, he said, for his survival. He often wept in public and recited maudlin poetry. As a young man he talked of suicide, and as he grew older, he said he saw the world as hard and grim, full of misery, made that way by fates and forces of God."
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