While labeling a can of food can have a great advantage, the labeling of people is attended with life-changing consequences.
Throughout his life, Abraham Lincoln suffered recurrent periods of severe depression. At age 29, he was plunged into a deep depression by the death of Ann Rutledge, his first love.
Lincoln became distracted, wandering aimlessly about the banks of the Sangamon River. Believing that he might be suicidal, friends deprived him of knives and razors. Photographs taken throughout Lincoln's life show only the profoundly sad look characteristic of depression.