Lincoln's Melancholy

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(10-12-2016 07:47 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  I am a definite layman when it comes to diagnosing mental illness, but in my opinion, Lincoln's words are more likely to have come from a person who suffered through, survived, and recovered from very sad, deep, "hypo" periods in life, not a person who was/had been truly mentally ill or clinically depressed.

I agree completely.