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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Same is true about Winston Churchill. He referred to it as his Black Dog. There is a book about it by that title.
Depression is a natural part of a transition shift to a higher level of consciousness.
It happens during the teenage years during the transition from childhood dependency and self actualization of ego self formation.
It also happens during mid life crisis during the transition from ego self identity and transition to self transcendence.
The suffering caused by depression is due to attachment to the old while their consciousness is growing and being pulled toward the next higher level of consciousness development.
Attachment causes suffering.
The society’s current treatment with drugs is merely masking the symptoms and hindering soul development.
Leadership tries to keep people locked in dependency so they can be controlled.
When a person experiences “Transcendence” they begin to experience God. It is the experience of being “born again” at a new level of consciousness.
The soul growth process is really simple to understand once you have been through it. I’ve spent the past 25+ years studying neuroscience to better understand the corresponding physical body changes. To better understand what I experienced in my own development process of awakening.
It’s why Jesus, Buddha, and Krishna taught what they did. The physical body and soul are pretty much the same no matter your ethnic origin or religion you practice.
The different religions are like the parable of the five blind men who are experiencing an elephant for the first time. They all describe it as something different depending upon the part of the elephant they touch. They argue and fight over who is correct, when if they could see the total elephant, they would find that they are all correct from a different perspective.
If we studied all religions, while embracing our own religion, we would better understand our own religion.
When you transcend self and actually experience God, consciousness itself and the contents of people’s souls becomes physical to your perception and the soul development process is very simple to understand as you see it, feel it, hear it, smell it, and fully experience it.
Neuroscience and frequencies of consciousness changes during life stages fully supports this development process.
Attachment to the old causes suffering and depression.
It’s the reason it is a stage in the healing of grief.
By constantly focusing on and Loving God, it dissolves the attachment to the old.
I guess maybe it’s time to write the book describing and explaining this process. The time is not quite ready for it, as if a person is stuck in ego identity and full of themselves, they have no room for God.
The upcoming Tribulation is necessary to crush that ego. It’s the reason society in general is becoming very emotional and irrational, losing their logical discernment as through they are in a hypnotic trance.
Soon their will be an external surrender to a world leader, just as a person in trance surrenders to the hypnotist. This will be an external surrender to an anti-messiah. The Bible is very accurate in describing the process.
The Matthew 13 weeds that precede the anti-messiah are here now and causing all the world turmoil.
After the reign of the anti-messiah, there will be a period of darkness. During this time people will see the illusion of the anti-messiah and reject him.
Only then will they go within in the great depression, the Dark-Night-of-the-Soul, and to surrender to God and Transcend self as they raise their individual consciousness to a higher level and actually experience God.
Jesus is already here. If He were not, Communion would be worthless. It’s just that while you are asleep, you cannot see and experience Him. People stuck in ego cannot see Him. Only those who Transcend ego self can truly awaken and see Him.
If you read the Sermon on the Mount from this perspective it really makes sense.
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He should have been depressed. He directly killed around a million men, and who knows how many died as an indirect result of his actions?
The South should have left in the 1830s, and it's looking like it was foolish for them to have joined the Union in 1789 in the first place. It was a bad deal for them right from the beginning.
Trouble is, in 1776, *ALL* the states were slave states, and in 1789, the vast majority still were.
The Northern states that later decided to have misgivings about slavery, knew what the Southern states were when they invited them to be in the Union.
Slavery is evil, but everyone agreed to it in the beginning, so they really had no right to bitch about it later.
Jackson would have marched into South Carolina, and hanged the traitors from poles
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