Depression

An enduring myth is that people with depression cannot function, when actually 72 percent of depressed individuals remain in the workforce. Some are taking medication or some other form of treatment. Many try to carry on in spite of their deep, emotional pain. Many famous people have struggled with clinical depression, including President Abraham Lincoln, journalist Mike Wallace, comedian Rodney Dangerfield, poet Sylvia Plath, statesman Winston Churchill, artist Georgia O'Keefe, actor Rod Steiger, and writers William Styron, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, and Mark Twain.