Posted on 12/08/2024 3:24:04 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
He is perhaps best known for his honesty — but a lesser-known fact about Abraham Lincoln is that the 16th president of the United States battled severe depression during his lifetime.
Dr. Chris Tuell, a clinical psychotherapist and a chemical and behavioral addiction specialist at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, has studied Lincoln’s mental health struggles extensively.
"Though the history books play a significant role in our perception and understanding of the ‘rail splitter’ from Illinois, it often becomes easy for us to forget that Abraham Lincoln was very human," Tuell told Fox News Digital.
"Lincoln led this nation through its worst crisis, while at the same time battling his own internal war of chronic depression."
At age 32, in a letter to John Stuart in 1841, Lincoln wrote, "I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell; I awfully forebode I shall not; to remain as I am is impossible."
Lincoln scholars have "clear evidence" that he suffered from depressive episodes beginning in his 20s, Tuell noted.
The president’s mental health condition can be attributed to both genetics and traumatic experiences, according to the book "Lincoln’s Melancholy" by Joshua Wolf Shenk.
After his brother died in infancy, Lincoln’s mother, aunt and uncle all died when he was just 9 years old. A decade later, his sister died while delivering a stillborn infant.
Later, Lincoln experienced the loss of his first love, Ann Rutledge, in 1835.
As a father, he experienced the death of two young sons, Eddie and Willie.
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Abraham Lincoln apparently got over his depression by killing Southern Christians who disagreed with him.
The Lincoln Bedroom during Lincoln’s time in office was used as an office and Cabinet Room. It was also where he signed The Emancipation Proclamation. The bed that is in the room today is the bed that his son Willie died in on February 20, 1862.
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If you think that Lincoln was harsh, be glad that Trump’s hero Andrew Jackson wasn’t President during the Civil War. The war would have been over in months, and traitors would have been quickly delt wiylth. Lincoln was a bumbler for 3 years of the War.
Abe was my 1st cousin 9 times removed. We both have a great-great-... grandfather named Tom Hanks. (Not that one). His grandfather... and my grandfather... were brothers.
Downs documents that by the time of the 1870 US Census, 1 million of the 4 million slaves recorded in the 1860 census had simply vanished, dead from privations, disease or misadventure, chiefly because Lincoln had made no provisions for their maintenance or survival.
If i was married to Mary Todd I’d be nutz too.
Our revisionist historians have gone to great lengths to portray “ honest Abe “ as a secular saint.
He was a crooked railroad lawyer, whose only motive for denying the Southern states their constitutional right to secede was financial.
Slavery ended everywhere in the Western world without bloodshed.
Except the U.S.
Lincoln’s own words betray the fact that he believed blacks were inferior, and should be deported after the war.
Yale and Brown Universities are named after the men who originally endowed them.
They made their huge fortunes in the ports of Rhode Island and Connecticut, off of the African slave trade.
You won’t hear this from Doris Kearns Goodwin, and Michael Beschloss, revisionist historians, who love ol’ Abe, the “ great emancipator “, who butchered the Southern states.
We are still struggling with the Union government, thank you very mudh,. Hopefully, Trump can fix it.
The Slave Power was fine running roufshood, and using the Federal Government l. When they lost, They had a sissy fit and tried to rip the UNION apart. They held the South Hostage, and the South payed for it.
Trump got all that grief about saying that Jackson saw the Civil War coming but this is what he said in 1833: “ THE tariff context was a pretext, and a Southern Confederacy was the object, THE NEXT PRETIXT WILL BE THE SLAVERY QUESTION.
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That is just sorrow. We are taking it too far by calling it depression.
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