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		pnathan on Oct 12, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I quit my job last March and it was a bad idea. Winston Churchill had fairly brutal depressive bouts, even through his tenure as Prime Minister through WW2

cdavoren on Oct 12, 2011 [–]

He was also an alcoholic, and high alcohol intake can cause depression all by itself, so there is a confounding factor there.

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