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Mary Todd Lincoln (1818-82), wife of President Abraham Lincoln, was forcibly committed to an asylum, but a contemporary doctor and scholar now believes she wasn't mentally ill at all.
The simple answer is that we don't know with any medical certainty. She was never diagnosed by anyone with a modern understanding of psychiatry. However, ample evidence exists of Mary Lincoln's eccentric behavior, which, in her own day, was generally attributed to "madness" or "insanity." Her marriage to Abraham Lincoln often appeared difficult ...
For Lincoln, born on this day in 1818 as Mary Ann Todd, it has led many people to attempt to name a medical condition that might have explained her behavior. Even in her own lifetime, Lincoln was ...
After his assassination, she struggled to survive—and became a laughingstock despite her precarious mental health. ... Mary Todd Lincoln (1818-1882). (Credit: Corbis/Getty Images)
Mary Ann Todd Lincoln (December 13, 1818 – July 16, 1882 [1]) served as the first lady of the United States from 1861 until the assassination of her husband, President Abraham Lincoln, in 1865. Mary Todd was born into a large and wealthy, slave-owning family in Kentucky, although Mary never owned slaves and in her adulthood came to oppose ...
Physical cause partly to blame for Mary Todd Lincoln's mental struggles? 02:05. ... It was a fatal illness until treatment was discovered decades after her death. The disease can lead to many of ...
Mary recovered when Abraham’s estate was settled and she received $36,000 in cash and securities. Mary Lincoln travelled extensively throughout her widowhood. Her 1870 guide to Beauchamp Tower & Tower of London is in the Mary Todd Lincoln House Collection. After the marriage of her son Robert in 1868, Mary and Tad sailed for Europe and set up ...
