Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln is known for being one of the biggest fighters in the US due to his fierce search for freedom. However, this doesn’t mean that the 16th President of the United States was what we’d call a happy man.
Lincoln was contemporaneously described as suffering from “melancholy,” a condition that modern mental health professionals would characterize as clinical depression. Whether he may have had this mental illness as a genetic predisposition or a reaction to multiple emotional traumas is still a mystery.
