Paul Ferdinand Gachet , who looked after the artist in Auvers. It is hardly possible to call him the attending physician , since Gachet rather took care that Vincent drew more , and not about his mental health. Firstly , he is even more sick than me , or , say , just like me. Epilepsy On 24 December , the day after the first attack , during which it is believed that Van Gogh cut off his earlobe , he was transferred to a psychiatric hospital.
Here the attack repeated , and Vincent behaved so aggressively that he was placed in a ward for violent patients. The artist was hastily diagnosed with temporal lobe epilepsy. In the future , he was treated specifically for this disease , although there are many opinions and hypotheses regarding what actually caused these attacks: from bipolar disorder to porphyria.
However , you cannot say that Van Gogh was diagnosed without any reason. Contrary to popular belief , epilepsy is not only the falling sickness with convulsive seizures and foam from the mouth.
Epilepsy is also a disorder of consciousness , dementia and psychosis , which can manifest themselves in a variety of forms , including fear , aggressiveness , anxiety , delirium and hallucinations.
Based on this , the diagnosis of Vincent no longer seems so fantastic. Certainly , the diagnostics , including that of mental diseases , at the late 19th century left much to be desired. But even if Vincent had been diagnosed correctly for example , they established bipolar disorder , there was simply no means for quality treatment. Even the diagnosed epilepsy was treated mostly with warm baths and orders to remain calm. While Van Gogh was still ready for the first , the second was categorically not to his liking.
Vincent used to work till exhaustion , constantly staying in nervous excitement , and it caused only new attacks. But be that as it may , Vincent created many of his best paintings precisely during the "crazy" period. Starry night. Vincent van Gogh. The sower. Wheat field with crows. The Church in Auvers-sur-Oise. Cover illustration: Vincent Van Gogh. Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette , Author: Yevheniia Sidelnikova. To post comments log in or sign up. Share article. Tags: van gogh self-portraits vincent van gogh.
Who we are Arthive is a community of artists, collectors and art dealers. Artists seem especially prone to the disease. Could it be their bohemian lifestyle, their existence outside the norms of society, maybe their propensity for travel, maybe their contact with models who were often ladies of easy virtue? Died in aged just 51, having suffered a long, horrible, lingering death from the disease, with years of partial paralysis from locomotor ataxia and a foot amputation.
Paul Gauguin. When Rolf Harris was imprisoned for fondling girls the value of his work bombed. Gauguin died in abject poverty in aged just 54 in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia, easing his long pain with morphine. Vincent van Gogh. Committed suicide in aged Before his death he suffered from poor digestion and a bad stomach, hallucinations, nightmares, stupor, absent mindedness, impotence, insomnia, and anxiety.
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On January 3, , on a public street in Turin, Italy , Nietzsche suffered what's been described as a psychotic break. He began to send bizarre letters to his former colleagues in Basel.
His landlord also informed them that Nietzsche was in rough shape. Nietzsche was transported back to Switzerland by train and, ultimately, to an asylum in Germany where he was unsuccessfully treated.
Doctors there pronounced him incurably in the throes of the final stages of syphilis, probably contracted while he was in the military. Friedrich Nietzsche spent the final 11 years of his life without writing or speaking a single meaningful word.
A stroke took his life in ; he was The diagnosis of syphilis is doubted by some historians, who argue he might have been the victim of a brain tumor and that syphilis was a means to discredit the philosopher's reputation. Officially, the passing of Vladimir Lenin was attributed to a succession of strokes that began in and resulted in a period of rapid deterioration, which ended with his demise in January According to The Guardian , these strokes left him with symptoms that included "short episodes of loss of consciousness, numbness of the right hand, throbbing headaches, sleeplessness, hallucinations, loss of appetite and epileptic seizures.
Lenin is said to have contracted the disease in from a Parisian lady of the night and was repeatedly treated for symptoms that were a well-known secret within the Soviet medical hierarchy. Idi Amin ruled Uganda as a military dictator from until It is estimated that , Ugandans perished from political violence inflicted by his regime in a country of 12 million people. Amin was also quite sexually active, having married six women, who gave birth to at least 40 official children; however, this number is believed to be unofficially higher.
Amin was sanctioned early in his military career for failure to obtain treatment for a venereal disease , and his subsequent erratically violent and paranoid behavior, delusions of grandeur, and irrational statements would certainly be consistent with an individual afflicted with syphilis.
When Amin perished in exile in Saudi Arabia, much of the world's media attributed his passing directly to the disease. For much of his life, Henry VIII was a remarkably fit and healthy individual who was athletically inclined. However, by his mids, he weighed over pounds, was covered with infected sores, and was barely mobile.
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