![]() You are entitled to your opinion, but this is one area where it might be best to keep it to yourself, Volchek. There are many fascinating things to learn about in this field. The understanding of mental illness, mental health and psychiatry continues to grow every day and it really doesn’t help for individuals to toss false information into the mix. Just using myself as an example of recent psychiatric faux pas, I’d been diagnosed for over a decade with depression, then Bipolar Type 1 for about 5 years and, finally, “Schizoaffective Disorder Bipolar Type 1 with Psychotic Features”, in addition to severe PTSD, when I continued to have hallucinations, etc, despite having a relatively “baseline” mood. If you actually have any real interest, check the websites of NAMI, the Nat Institute of Mental Health (the Mayo Clinic ( ) and a host of other reputable organizations that are backed by educated, experienced psychiatrists, psychologists, doctors, advocates and even those who have experienced these things.nnAlso, no one actually knows what mental illness Virginia Woolf may have had. Bipolar disorder can include delusions, hallucinations and severe paranoia, during both manic and severe depressive cycles. Follow him at 7, 2013 at 4:43 pmĬhris, I am afraid you are incorrect. Josh Jones is a writer and musician based in Durham, NC. Watch Patti Smith Read from Virginia Woolf, and Hear the Only Surviving Recording of Woolf’s Voiceįind Works by Virginia Woolf in Our Collections of Free Audio Books and Free eBooks. Virginia Woolf and Friends Dress Up as “Abyssinian Princes” and Fool the British Royal Navy (1910) I don’t think two people could have been happier than we have been. I can’t go on spoiling your life any longer. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You see I can’t even write this properly. ![]() I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. I don’t think two people could have been happier till this terrible disease came. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. I begin to hear voices, and I can’t concentrate. I feel we can’t go through another of those terrible times. Directly above, you can hear a dramatic reading of Woolf’s note, such a wrenching missive because it is not a farewell to the world at large, but rather to a trusted friend and lover. See a scan of the handwritten note at the top, and read the full transcript below. Her suicide note, written to her husband Leonard, is a haunting and beautiful document, in all its unadorned sincerity behind which much turmoil and anguish lie. ![]() Such was the case with Woolf, who drowned herself after a long struggle with what would probably be called today bipolar disorder. ![]() And in many cases, especially those involving mental illness, death seems so needless, so extreme. Perhaps it is the mode of death, suicide still being a societal taboo, thought of as tragic even when it’s undertaken calmly and rationally by someone ready to leave this world. Woolf’s death, in March of 1941, occasioned the third of her suicide letters, and yes, it feels unseemly to linger over her last piece of prose.
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