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My Hero
Topic Started: Aug 15 2008, 03:27 PM (644 Views)
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:lol: machine gun lincoln XD
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bet you cant guess what is behind my back....




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aaahh!!
i'd jump in between to save my hero
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poor lincoln.... if only bra were there.
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oh the pain
oh the horror! my president
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here's my paper on abe lincoln based on abnormal psychology and the dsm iv-tr

Brief Biography
Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president of the United States and held office from 1861-1865, having his second term shot short after a successful assassination by John Wilkes Booth. In 1809, Abraham Lincoln was born to Nancy and Thomas Lincoln in Hodgenville, Kentucky (“Abraham Lincoln” [AL], 2007). He was born into a farming family with both parents raised illiterate. Lincoln’s mother died of an illness when he was only nine years old. His father was very busy working on the farm, so his only source of human interaction was with his older sister, Sarah. Unfortunately, his sister died too when she was giving birth to her child. With even more sadness and great misfortune, the child was stillborn (Shenk, 2005).
Lincoln joined the Whig Party in 1832, and in 1837 he practiced law in Springfield, Illinois. He studied by himself to get accepted for the Illinois Bar and served in the House of Representatives in the same decade. While serving the House of Representatives, he spoke out against the war in Mexico as well as his ideas on abolishing slavery. He married Mary Todd and had four boys, but only their first born survived through adulthood. Lincoln assisted in forming the first Republican Party for the United States and traveled across the state to promote the new party. In 1860, he was elected to be the new President of the United States (Norton, 1996). Shortly after entering office in 1861, the Confederates attacked South Carolina on April 12th (AL, 2007). In 1863, Lincoln has done several significant acts: he wrote the Emancipation Proclamation; he stated the Gettysburg Address; and approved the nation’s draft law. In 1865, he was reelected for presidency and the war continued until Robert E. Lee surrendered to the Union (Norton, 1996). All the slaves in the northern states were free as well as the slaves that they freed as they continued defeating the Confederates because of the Thirteenth Amendment (“American Civil War,” 2007). After making a speech expressing his “early intentions” of bringing the states together under the Union, he was assassinated on April 14th (Norton, 1996).
Diagnosed Disorder
President Abraham Lincoln is diagnosed with major depressive disorder (MDD) with recurrent episodes because there have been many historical evidence which supported this by psychological autopsy.
According to the DSM-IV, MDD requires five or more of the symptoms for two weeks and at least one symptom of depressed mood or anhedonia: significant weight changes; change in sleeping habits; fatigue nearly every day; movement turns very slow or retardation; feeling excessive worthlessness and/or guilt; difficult time concentrating; and recurrent thoughts of suicide and ideation of. These symptoms also are not due to medical conditions and substance effects. The symptoms have to create great impairment in the person’s daily life. The person should not show any symptoms of mania because then mixed episodes would be considered. The symptoms should also not be considered if there has been a tragic loss of a loved one after two months (American Psychiatric Association [APA], 2000).
Evidence
President Abraham Lincoln met six of the nine symptoms of major depressive disorder including both depressed mood and loss of interest or pleasure (anhedonia). He had no energy for most of his episodes, felt inappropriate and excessive guilt, and had a difficult time concentrating or deciding. President Lincoln also had recurrent suicidal ideation during his episodes. There have been two recorded cases of Lincoln’s major depressive disorder, once in 1835 and another in 1841 (Shenk, 2005).
In 1835, Anna Mayes Rutledge, a good friend of Abraham Lincoln, died of “bilious fever,” which experts suggest was what typhoid is today. Death of a loved one does bring melancholy, but based on socio-cultural factors associated in diagnosing psychological disorders, the symptoms were abnormal. Death was very common in Lincoln’s community during his lifetime because of poor living conditions, little advancements in medications, and the culturally-accepted fact that life can end at a very early age. For example, Lincoln did not have a major depressive episode when his mother died when he was very young and his sister died giving birth to a child that was still-born. This was indeed devastating, but the symptoms did not persist more than two months. According to the diathesis-stress model, her death was harsher for him to handle than others. Individually, he was devastated and often threatened to end his life. The community was very worried about his condition because he lost energy to take care of him and walked alone with his gun in the forest. To assist him, they took care of him for two weeks at which point he has improved, but still saw noticeable melancholy (Shenk, 2005).
In 1841, Abraham Lincoln had another episode of major depression. At this point, he has been admitted into the state legislative branch, lived with his best friend, and was enthralled by a woman named Matilda Edwards, but could not wed. Stress over work was increasing because of the large collection of debt Illinois had. His best friend, Joshua Speed, proposed to Matilda Edwards and crushed Lincoln’s spirit. Abraham Lincoln was left with a decision to marry a woman that he did not feel much love for, Mary Todd. Similar symptoms from the first episode in 1835 were emerging. His attendance to legislative votes dropped, expressed his melancholy and suicidal ideations, and often tired. The difference in the episodes was that Lincoln brought his illness to the attention of doctors. He was admitted to have symptoms of hypochondriasis. Dr. Henry treated him by exhausting his body of melancholia. The patient would be bleed, leeched, and given vomit and diarrhea inducing medications, to empty the body of its contents. Abraham Lincoln suffered a tremendous treatment and returned to work looking more physically ill (Shenk, 2005).
Given symptoms of a unipolar mood disorder, we can speculate if he had a bipolar disorder. There has been no evidence of Abraham Lincoln having any manic episodes (Shenk, 2005).
If given more evidence, he might have been diagnosed with dysthymic disorder. Most recorded quotes from his time period suggest that he has always been somewhat melancholy (Shenk, 2005). If he had dysthymic disorder, then he would show depression and two or more symptoms of change in eating habits, sleeping habits, low self-esteem, low energy, and feeling of hopelessness (APA, 2000). To some evidence, he has shown to have had depressed mood for at least two years with no more than two months without the symptoms. He has symptoms of low self-esteem, and hopelessness, but based on the diathesis-stress model, he might just be prone to feeling depressed easier to stress-inducing events in his life, such as over mounting work and deaths of loved ones.
Conclusion
Axis I:
Major Depressive Disorder, Recurrent
Hypochondriasis
Axis II:
None
Axis III:
Marfan Syndrome
This has been debated whether he had Marfan Syndrome. Marfan Syndrome is a disorder related to the connective tissues that cause unusually long limbs (“Marfan Syndrome,” 2007).
Axis IV:
Problems with parental support
Mother died young and father neglected him
Stress with occupation
He was the President of the United States when there was great turmoil between states
Axis V:
50
The president had suicidal ideation and loss of energy as well as extreme senses of depressed mood.
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lincoln did overcome adversity though? i mean you would have to after some time....

that is where i am left unclear....

was or did lincoln let the past and loss of loved ones impair him so much that it weakened more than strengthened him?

TO me Lincoln doesnt seem the type to let such circumstances put a halt on his well being and sense of worth..


I think its admirable to be able to live through such tragedies and carry on as best you can.
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you read this? :oh
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TLDR- jsi



i skimmed it ... but i mean it sounds as if lincolns life was too sad for him to have the willpower to succeed...

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i think i was trying really hard to make a point he had a disorder. lool the paper had to be about a famous person with what you thought was a disorder.
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you want us to feel sorry for him!!!!

i want to respect and admire his glorious methods and speeches given in his life.

rewrite it.
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Aug 16 2008, 01:03 PM
oh the pain
oh the horror! my president

I was expecting.

"Oh the pain!
Oh the horror!
O Captain my Captain!"

I am sorely disappointed. Tsk, tsk.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8UL_9R_W-Y
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can you guess who i am?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4Uf9rsBbhc


whitest kids you know
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Favorite sketch from that show.
I never knew all this about Abe Lincoln. :oh
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there's so many biographies about the president.
there's a couple papers i wrote about him actually. am i obsessed? i dunno
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Aug 20 2008, 09:13 PM
there's so many biographies about the president.
there's a couple papers i wrote about him actually. am i obsessed? i dunno

he must be the person whom you would wish to ultimately emulate and be like if you could....

or you just really can admire and respect such a man as lincoln...
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he represents illinois a lot. maybe that's why. i dunno.
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