Depression: Abraham Lincoln, Johnny Cash & Meriwether Lewis
“I am not well.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“Well, you're my friend
And can you see
Many times, we've been out drinking
Many times we shared our thoughts
But did you ever, ever notice
The kind of thoughts I got?
Well, you know I have a love
A love for everyone I know
And you know I have the drive
To live, I won't let go
But can you see its opposition
Comes rising up sometimes?
That its dreadful imposition
Comes blacking in my mind?
And that I see a darkness.”
- Johnny Cash
“Governor Lewis had from an early life been subject to hypochondriac affections...While he lived with me in Washington, I observed at times... depressions of mind…During his Western expedition the constant exertion which that required of all the faculties of body and mind, suspended these distressing affections; but after his establishment at St. Louis in sedentary occupations they returned upon him with redoubled vigor.”
- Thomas Jefferson, writing about Meriwether Lewis's suicide
“I am not well.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“Well, you're my friend
And can you see
Many times, we've been out drinking
Many times we shared our thoughts
But did you ever, ever notice
The kind of thoughts I got?
Well, you know I have a love
A love for everyone I know
And you know I have the drive
To live, I won't let go
But can you see its opposition
Comes rising up sometimes?
That its dreadful imposition
Comes blacking in my mind?
And that I see a darkness.”
- Johnny Cash
“Governor Lewis had from an early life been subject to hypochondriac affections...While he lived with me in Washington, I observed at times... depressions of mind…During his Western expedition the constant exertion which that required of all the faculties of body and mind, suspended these distressing affections; but after his establishment at St. Louis in sedentary occupations they returned upon him with redoubled vigor.”
- Thomas Jefferson, writing about Meriwether Lewis's suicide