Depressed people

 Abraham Lincoln endured recurrent episodes of depression during the years he practiced law and later as President of the United States. When a young man he refused to carry a pocketknife for fear he would kill himself with it. In the play, Hamlet, Shakespeare wrote the famous line describing depression "How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr., the second man to walk on the moon became depressed from the stress of post-flight publicity. In 1972, Senator Thomas P. Eagleton withdrew as a candidate for Vice-President after it was revealed that he had been hospitalized three times for depression and received shock therapy twice.