Lincoln was contemporaneously described as suffering from melancholy, a condition which modern mental health professionals would characterize as clinical depression.[16] Lincoln suffered depressed mood after major traumatic events, such as the death of Ann Rutledge in August 1835,[17] the cessation of his (purported) engagement to Mary Todd Lincoln in January 1841 (after which several close associates feared Lincoln's suicide),[18][lower-alpha 1] and after the Second Battle of Bull Run.[20] During his life Lincoln experienced the death of multiple close family members, including his mother, his sister, and two of his sons, Eddie and Willie.[21] Mary Lincoln felt her husband to be too trusting, and his melancholy tended to strike at times he was betrayed or unsupported by those in whom he put faith.[22] Whether he may have suffered from depression as a genetic predilection, as a reaction to multiple emotional traumas in his life,[21] or a combination thereof is the subject of much current conjecture.[23]