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After the death of her husband, Mary Todd Lincoln's sanity was indangered. Three (out of four) of her children died. Both of her parents and most of her siblings died. Too much death plus some erratic behavior and habits made her last son call for a sanity hearing. A jury of twelve men declared Mary insane. (i wrote three whole research reports on her in the same year.)

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Mary Lincoln suffered from severe headaches throughout her adult life.[13] As First Lady had to deal with the death of her son Willie in 1862, as well as the deaths of siblings killed in the Civil War, these difficult bouts of mourning, especially after Willie's death, led to protracted depression.[14] During her White House years, she suffered a severe head injury in a carriage accident.[15] In addition to depression, Mary suffered from irrational, sometimes public outbursts during Lincoln's presidency; after a jostling, uncomfortable carriage ride to review the troops at City Point, Va., accompanied by Julia Grant (whom she disliked), Mary unleashed pent-up fury on her husband when she arrived to see him riding on horseback beside the wife of General Ord.[16] Such scenes were not infrequent in Mary's life. Due to her erratic behavior and shopping sprees (classic signs of mania) as well as her protracted bouts with depression, some historians and psychologists have speculated that Mary Todd Lincoln suffered from Bipolar disorder.

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Yes. Wouldn't you go nuts if three of your four sons died and your husband was shot right in front of you?

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