Some of the best boxers ever has/had MAJOR mental issues...

I find it common that many great or good exciting fighters have major mental issues. You guys know who they are, no need for me to name but I guess it goes with the territory. The creator gives you physical ability beyond the normal human but to maintain that you have to maintain your mental state which can render your physical state. Shit's crazy when you really think about it. Gives you a lot more then normal but takes away a lot more then normal all at the same time. Catch 22 like a MOFO. This can be said for a lot of the other greats in their respective fields. Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of Great Britain who, as one of the “Big Three” (Churchill,Roosevelt and Stalin) to lead the world to the defeat of Hitler in WWII, told in his own writings ofsuffering from “black dog” Churchill’s term for severe and serious depression. Less often talkedabout are his writings of how he often self-medicated with alcohol to deal with these times. Like somany other famous people with a mental illness, he was able to make the great contribution he didthrough sheer personal determination. There was a nation, he said, and a world depending on hisefforts to lead Britain and the world in the defeat of their common and formidable enemy of Nazism Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of U.S. suffered from severe and debilitating and on occasionsuicidal depressions, as recorded by Carl Sandburg in his comprehensive six-volume biographicalanalysis of his life. “A tendency to melancholy” Lincoln once wrote in a letter to a friend, “...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.” The most amazing part of his story was the sheerdetermination with which he willed himself to overcome his serious affliction and still achieve allhe was able to achieve for our young and troubled nation at war with itself Isaac Newton, most famous mathematician of the 17th Century was responsible for many scientificdiscoveries we take for granted today such as the "corrected" Gregorian calendar date. Newton’sgreatest mathematical discovery was the gravitational relationship between the earth and the moon,and of centrifugal force. Newton was well educated, had access to the best knowledge of his dayand was wealthy in later life. He suffered from several “nervous breakdowns” in his life and wasknown for great fits of rage towards anyone who disagreed with him which some have labeledBipolar Disorder which was unknown at the time. In 1705 Newton was the first Scientist to beknighted by Queen Anne for his great scientific contributions. Ludwig van Beethoven, composer, had bipolar disorder which some have said gave him suchcreative power that his compositions broke the mold for classical music forever. He was a childprodigy which his father tried to exploit. His “manic” episodes seemed to fuel his creativity. Hewrote his most famous works during times of torment, loneliness, and suffering psychotic delusions.It took him 12 years to finish his last and 8th Symphony in total deafness. He then medicatedhimself with the only drugs available in that day to bring some relief –opium and alcohol- and diedseveral years later of liver disease