Did Abraham Lincoln have a mental disorder even though he was one of our greatest Presidents?
Tt is largely believed he suffered from depression… Supposedly, he suffered a nervous breakdown after the death of a young lady he was fond of: Anne Rutlege. A supposed nervous breakdown he suffered is the stuff of legends in the motivational world. There was much cause for sadness in Lincoln’s life. His only brother died in infancy. His mother and aunt and uncle succumbed to an epidemic when he was age nine. Ten years later his sister died giving birth to a still-born infant. His father and mother were disposed to melancholy, and one side of the family “was thick with mental disease.” Despite this, Lincoln made it into adulthood showing few signs of depression. His first major episode coincided with the death of Anne Rutledge in 1835 when he was 26. Lincoln had long since left the family farm to seek his fortune in the one-horse town of New Salem, Illinois. Many historians contend that there must have been a love interest between Rutledge and Lincoln, but Mr Shenk says there is no e
