Not just Trump: These were American presidential mental troubles

In the summer of 1776, the American Revolutionary War was going so bad for the rebels that George Washington tried to kill himself with his military coat.

As his militiamen fled from panic in Manhattan's Kipés Bay, the 44-year-old commander who was supreme fell into a catatonic state, according to biographies Ron Chernou [Chernow], translates Periscopi from the BBC.

Washington just sat on the horse watching space until dozens of British soldiers were shooting at him in one field.

The first U.S. president [who would then become] was somehow able to save him.

One of Washington's generals, Nathan Green [Nathanael Greene], said later that the incoming president was “as such troubled with his troops' poor behaviour that he wanted to die”.

Two and a half centuries later, the state of mind of his successor [Trampit] is in a less forgiving examination.

But Trump is not the only president who finds himself described as mad.

John Adams, the second president, was described by his deadly rival Jefferson as the “from now on, absolutely insane. ”

Furthermore, Theodore Roosevelt [Rosevelt], according to the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, would be “gone to history as one of the most psychological examples of degradation of the mental process of consciousness”.

Historian Henry Adams had described in 1912 his mind is broken... his neurosis can lead to a nervous collapse, an acute mania. ”

After Woodrow Wilson [Wilson] had a blow, critics said the White House had become a nursing home.

A 2006 study said that 49 percent of presidents had suffered from mental inadequacy at some point in their lives [then Trumpis was president].

Twenty - seven percent were affected while performing the presidential duties.

One in four met the diagnosed criteria for depression, including Wilson and Madison, said a team from the Duke University Medical Centre in North Carolina.

They also claimed that Teddy Roosevelt and John Adams had bipolar disorder, while Thomas Jefferson and Ulyssa Grant had what is known as social distress.

Becoming president is extremely stressful, and no one has the unlimited capacity to endure indefinitely.” Professor Johnoten Davisa said.

Wilson had had a hit in 1919 when he was going to sign the Versailles Treaty.

She left her disabled, affected by depression, and paranoid until the end of his presidency in 1921.

Psychological Presidents

Despite the stigma attached to mental illness, some experts believe they can help leaders to a certain point.

A 2012 study by psychologists from the University of Georgia found that many presidents had psychologic problems, including Bill Clinton.

Two of those most symptoms were Linda Johnson and Andrew Jackson, Trump's hero.

The psychopathic virtues identified by this team were superficial charms, egocentism, dishonesty, cruelty, risk companies, and bravery.

Johnson, for example, had stolen the Senate election in 1948, and then shamelessly joked about it, according to Robert Karos' multi-velish biography.

He liked to put his hands on other women while his wife was nearby. Further, he liked to humiliate the subordinates by calling them to dictate what to write while he peed in the kitchen or went to the bathroom.

And Bill Clinton's reputation on the other side, of course, was shattered by his sexual impulsiveness.

Richard Nixon, on the other hand, took medication against anxiety and depression as vice president and as president.

His psychotherapist, Mr. Arnold Husneker is known as the only mental health professional to have treated the president at the White House.

Article translated by Periscope from BBC, Jude Sheer