I adore Vincent Van Gogh!!
Diagnoses that have been put forward include schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, syphilis, poisoning from swallowed paints, temporal lobe epilepsy and acute intermittent porphyria. Any of these could have been the culprit and been aggravated by malnutrition, overwork, insomnia and a fondness for alcohol, especially absinthe.
Died largely unknown, at the age of 37, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
I could've saved him if I'd had a chance. *sigh*
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