/lit/ - Literature

>In the 1860s and early 1870s Dostoevsky frequently visited the women's wing of Obukhov Hospital in Saint Petersburg. Obukhov was what Russians then called a "locked hospital" and would be called a psychiatric hospital today. In a totally unofficial capacity he tended to the inmates, which ran the gamut from fallen noblewomen suffering from mental disorders to prostitutes ravaged by syphilis. He would bring them food and medicine, read to them and in one instance even arranged for a piano to be lent to the hospital for the benefit of a young woman who longed to play music again after five years in the institution.
Stop trying to save hoes, Fyodor.

Dostoevsky's religious awakening, deep insight, etc. are all attributable to his neurological condition. His much vaunted life experience and "Russian soul" had no impact.
>Temporal lobe epilepsy causes chronic, mild, interictal (i.e. between seizures) changes in personality, which slowly intensify over time. Geschwind syndrome includes five primary changes; hypergraphia, hyperreligiosity, atypical (usually reduced) sexuality, circumstantiality, and intensified mental life.

Dosto is GOAT.
Change my mind.

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There's no way you can describe the thoughts and actions of the Underground Man with such accuracy, authenticity and clarity without, at least partially, being him.
>Socially awkward
>Epileptic, which almost certainly means he was shunned
>Engineer, and as we all know they're autistic as fuck
He was one of us bro.