John Cribb: Facing a post-COVID mental health challenge? We can learn a lot from Abraham Lincoln's struggles
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May is National Mental Health Awareness Month, a time to remember that millions of Americans, at some point in their lives, experience mental health challenges.
Lincoln was famous for his "melancholy" nature, marked by spells of deep sadness and gloom. "His melancholy dripped from him as he walked," his law partner William Herndon observed. "No element of Mr. Lincoln’s character was so marked, obvious and ingrained as his mysterious and profound melancholy," another fellow attorney wrote. It is impossible to know the exact source of Lincoln’s melancholy, but surely the loss he experienced had much to do with it. His mother died while he was a boy, and his sister died in childbirth along with her baby. When he was a young man, his sweetheart, Ann Rutledge, died suddenly of a fever.More Related News