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49% of US Presidents suffered mental illness in Duke study
The Chronicle ^
| February, 2006
| Haley Hoffman
Posted on 04/20/2006 10:05:20 PM PDT by Torie
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Michael Medved mentioned this on his radio talk show today, and I did a Google, and found this. Medved said the Duke shrinks diagnosed Coolidge, Grant, and Lincoln as ill. Medved said that the only politician around today he thought was really nuts was Gore. And so it goes.
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posted on
04/20/2006 10:05:23 PM PDT
by
Torie
To: Torie
Does Clinton count twice for being a pathological liar AND a sexual deviant?
To: Torie
Are they now going to say Bush is crazy?
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posted on
04/20/2006 10:10:35 PM PDT
by
Howlin
To: Torie
I don't know about the rest.
But I think that any fair reading of Lincoln's life (and I've read more than a few biographies) would likely suggest that he was clinically depressed. Coolidge also seems to have suffered from severe depression as a result of the death of his son while he was in office.
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posted on
04/20/2006 10:13:01 PM PDT
by
furquhart
(Time for a New Crusade - Deus lo Volt!)
To: Torie
Howard Taft apparently suffered from sleep apnea. That's a mental ilness?
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posted on
04/20/2006 10:14:35 PM PDT
by
Graybeard58
(Remember and pray for Sgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
To: Torie
Doctor's offices are littered with depression literature, being sick doesn't exactly lead to gaiety; the archetypal fool is the madman of the past, today's nut case is so sad he's as serious as a heart attack.
Projection is the refuge of the self-absorbed.
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posted on
04/20/2006 10:15:06 PM PDT
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
To: furquhart
Abe had his ups and downs. But he did not allow his downs to interfere when it really mattered. It was a triumph of the will. Abe's worst down happened before he became famous.
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posted on
04/20/2006 10:15:37 PM PDT
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Torie
To: Torie
Howard Taft apparently suffered from sleep apnea. How is sleep apnea a mental illness or was that just a filler sentence?
To: Graybeard58
That's a mental ilness?Guess I was slow to post! My question, too.
To: conservative cat
Taft suffered from the "mental illness" of gluttony.
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posted on
04/20/2006 10:17:28 PM PDT
by
Torie
To: Torie
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posted on
04/20/2006 10:17:35 PM PDT
by
onyx
(It's easier to indict a ham sandwich or Tom DeLay than it is to indict a Democrat.)
To: Torie
Junk science.
Sleep apnea is mental illness? And social phobia - Isn't that just shyness? If it's so bad they are truly phobic, I doubt they could get through a campaign.
Now people may have a tendency towards certain problems, but who doesn't?
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posted on
04/20/2006 10:17:35 PM PDT
by
I still care
("Remember... for it is the doom of men that they forget" - Merlin, from Excalibur)
To: Torie
"Social phobia is kind of remarkable in a president. It meant he was shy and avoided social circumstances, and yet he was president," Swartz said.Shyness is a mental disorder? Duke psychiatrists: proving once again why psychiatry is a useless field of study.
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posted on
04/20/2006 10:18:16 PM PDT
by
BostonianRightist
(I probably haven't read the entire article, or checked my html.)
To: Torie
Half of the Presidents have been liberals. Liberalism is a mental disorder.
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posted on
04/20/2006 10:18:44 PM PDT
by
hawkeye101
(There's room in Hell for everybody.)
To: I still care
I take it you are not sold on the notion that half of our presidents, including some of the leading lights, were nutters? Is that a fair synopsis of your opinion?
By the way, where is LBJ on the list?
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posted on
04/20/2006 10:19:51 PM PDT
by
Torie
To: DemforBush
And a very thoroughgoing narcissist.
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posted on
04/20/2006 10:20:02 PM PDT
by
SAJ
To: conservative cat
According to the article, just about anything is mental illness.
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posted on
04/20/2006 10:20:58 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(Federal creed: If it moves tax it. If it keeps moving regulate it. If it stops moving subsidize it)
To: Torie
I know one recent President who was a psychopathic liar and a serial sexual offender.
To: Howlin
Funny you asked the question. A couple days ago, made the mistake of listening to Randi Rhodes on Air Amerika. (There wasn't much on during my lunch break)
She had on some shrink, he said Pres. Bush was mental ill.
Can't remember everything, but a lot had to do with his sister that died, had no funeral and the family never talked about it.
To: Springman
Never talked about it? What the heck does that mean? They talk about Robin all the time.
What a crock.
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posted on
04/20/2006 10:22:56 PM PDT
by
Howlin
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