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	President Abraham Lincoln closest friends noticed during his inauguration that he was sad and considered him to be melancholic.
	British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had a bipolar mental condition and was portrayed in a news article by the press in a straight jacket.  British citizens had an out cry about this portrayal.  Churchill made references to his depression which he called "black dog". The Website will bring you to more information about Churchill's depression, which he called "black dog"
	Edgar Allen Poe is an internationally known horror stories writer who was also mentally ill with depression, alcoholism and drug addiction.  He was found unconscious and was hospitalized for "delirious tremis" and died of congestion of the brain".
	Ernest Hemingway, the famous write of "The Old Man and the Sea", deteriorated mentally as well as physically, was hospitalized for rampant depression.  Shock treatment ended his writing career.  Struggling with his mental illness he ended his life by shooting himself with a shotgun
	Leo Tolstoy  the Russian writer who asked about what was the meaning of life while writing a book about Anna Karenina was in a deep psychological depression.
	Vincent Van Gogh was a Dutch painter who suffered from depression and seizures.  During one of his depressive attacks he cut off his own ear lobes and two days later shot himself with a shotgun.
	Michelangelo grew depressed and was not able to continue his sculptures and paintings but continued dealing with stress by reading and writing  poetry
	Isaac Newton was the scientist who defined the laws of nature, suffered from depression and had two emotional breakdowns.
	John Forbes Nash, Jr. is a story based on a movie, who won an Oscar, about a man who was college mathematics professor and was mentally ill with Schizophrenia
	Robert Schumann was a famous composer.  He couldn't play piano because of his injured hands. He lived at a time when Romantic  music was composed and published articles about music.  Schumann's wife played his music on the piano because his hands were injured as a result of his syphilis ailment.  Schumann was know to be manic depressive
	Shirley Mason was an Art Teacher. The book Sybil was based on the life story of  Shirley Mason.  Many people asked if the story was based on Shirley Mason who was a teacher that had a multiple personality.

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