It appears as if Amara Graps <amara@amara.com> wrote:
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|Some famous creative individuals thought to have schizophrenia were
|Nietsche, Nijinksy, Van Gogh, Ezra Pound, Wittgenstein, Hoelderlin,
|Blake, Kafka, Joyce.
Some argue that Nietzsche was afflicted with a syphilitic infection
(this was the original diagnosis of the doctors in Basel and Jena)
contracted either while he was a student or while he was serving as a
hospital attendant during the Franco-Prussian War; some claim that
Nietzsche's use of chloral hydrate, a drug which he had been using as
a sedative, deteriorated his already-weakened nervous system; some
speculate that Nietzsche's collapse was due to a brain disease he
inherited from his father; some maintain that a mental illness
gradually drove him insane. The exact cause of Nietzsche's
incapacitation still remains unclear. That Nietzsche had an
extraordinarily sensitive nervous constitution and took an assortment
of medications is well-documented as a more general fact.
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