| Depression is a common psychological condition that | | | | depression, in his mid 20s. During that time, his friends |
| affects the mental and physical health of men and | | | | who were so caring towards him had to take away |
| women. Studies reveal that many famous people | | | | sharp tools from him in order to protect Lincoln from |
| have been affected by depression. People get | | | | injuring himself. He was again afflicted with depression |
| depressed over divorce, political problems, the death | | | | in the early 1840s. During that time he was under the |
| of a loved one, business or financial reverses, or | | | | daily treatment of a doctor for a long period. |
| other major losses. Abraham Lincoln, Mike Wallace, | | | | A famous American journalist, Mike Wallace, best |
| David Bohm, Dick Cavett, Anne Rice, Trent Reznor, | | | | known today as a television correspondent, struggled |
| Georgia O'Keefe, Sylvia Plath, Rod Steiger, William | | | | from major depression during the 1960s. He got |
| Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, and Mark Twain are | | | | proper directions from a professional and took |
| some world famous personalities who suffered from | | | | different drugs to treat his illness. Anne Rice, an |
| clinical depression. | | | | American writer, is famed as the author of best |
| Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United | | | | selling horror books. She was another famed |
| States, suffered from depression twice. He was first | | | | personality who experienced depression following her |
| overcome by melancholia, today known as | | | | long illness and the loss of her husband. |