Authors with severe mental illness

[Anonymous No.18598211]

I don't mean the big sad, I'm talking florid fucking insanity, like pic rel, Emily Bronte's bizarre delusions.

[Anonymous No.18598236]

no wonder wuthering heights was better than anything her sisters ever wrote

[Anonymous No.18598242]

So strange, so much SOVL; maybe I'll marry a girl like this? maybe it's not worth it...

[Anonymous No.18598246]

>>18598242
>so much SOVL
the fuck does this mean, spanky?

[Anonymous No.18598250]

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was probably bipolar; he was prone to both mania (concocting fanciful plans like moving to the United States and starting a commune) and depression. He also self-medicated with opium.

[Anonymous No.18598254]

I ship Emily Bronte with H P Lovecraft

[Anonymous No.18598261]

>>18598254
That would actually work better than you would you think. EB was a Christian Mystic and Country Tory, I think they would get along quite well.

[Anonymous No.18598271]

>>18598261
>Look, Emily, my sweet, a frog!
>*whisper* Tell me your secrets little froggy.
>AAHHHHHHH! NO EMILY! THEY'RE NOT FOR HUMAN EARS!

[Anonymous No.18598312]

>>18598211
she's just like me

[Anonymous No.18598321]

>>18598271

>Oh HP if you hate the state of the world so much, why not just die?

The little glittering spirits sung,
Or seemed to sing, to me:

"O mortal! mortal! let them die;
Let time and tears destroy,
That we may overflow the sky
With universal joy!

"Let grief distract the sufferer's breast,
And night obscure his way;
They hasten him to endless rest,
And everlasting day.

"To thee the world is like a tomb,
A desert's naked shore;
To us, in unimagined bloom,
It brightens more and more!

"And, could we lift the veil, and give
One brief glimpse to thine eye,
Thou wouldst rejoice for those that live,
BECAUSE they live to die."

[Anonymous No.18598334]

>>18598312
In what way? It's easy to say that, but most people who are that far gone probably couldn't manage to post here.

[Anonymous No.18598420]

>>18598271
Very cute.

[Anonymous No.18598447]

>>18598271
He was right. Imagine what he would think if he saw us today. Maybe some form of his ideal America will survive after the USA balkanizes but most of the country is not and likely never will be like that again.

[Anonymous No.18598475]

>>18598211
So Heathcliff was her Tulpa/Persona/Alter. Makes sense.

[Anonymous No.18598483]

>>18598211
Jung

[Anonymous No.18598493]

>>18598475
I'm not schizo enough to understand this, but go on.

[Anonymous No.18598531]

>>18598334
She managed to write an entire classic of literature though so I think she can manage to post here (there are a lot of creative autist on this site after all); I imagine she would post mostly here, /x/, and that one role playing board I've been meaning to try (if I'm correct, you can make up stories and other anons play in them. seems up her alley).

[Anonymous No.18598547]

>>18598531
She had a truly blazing intellect that managed to beat back the madness and latterly the blood poising caused by TB just long to enough to finish one book.

Most people that are that 'off' aren't as gifted.

[Anonymous No.18598552]

>>18598211
The list who didn't have severe mental illness is far shorter than those who didn't. And harder to specify.

[Anonymous No.18598563]

>>18598552
>The list who didn't have severe mental illness is far shorter than those who didn't.
02S8s

[Anonymous No.18598572]

>>18598552
They ran a pretty big study on the genius/madness trope among literary types and found that of 500 professional authors and poets working in America between 1980 and 2005...
>30% had received psychiatric treatment
>11% were actively prescribed psychiatric medication
>3% had been hospitalized for mental illness
>2% had attempted suicide at least once

Hilariously there's also this nugget:
>"Over 40% of participants were characterized as problem drinkers"

[Anonymous No.18598583]

>>18598572
aren't those numbers normal though?

> 20.6% of U.S. adults experienced mental illness in 2019 (51.5 million people).
> 5.2% of U.S. adults experienced serious mental illness in 2019 (13.1 million people).
And autism rates are sky high in Asian countries like S. Korea and Taiwan

[Anonymous No.18598589]

>>18598583
They are, that's kinda the point. Most writers aren't mentally ill. That said, the rates are much higher among people that exclusively write literary fiction.

[Anonymous No.18598592]

>>18598493
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gondal_(fictional_country)
Emily Brontë's self-insert, Augusta Geraldine Almeda, is a romantic lodestone in the portion of the family paracosm that she supposedly developed with her sister. Heathcliff, read Byronic Hero, would be just the sort of OC a fanfiction author like Emily Brontë would populate her fantasies with. The affective labor would appeal to ASD authors. It makes a certain amount of sense that she would aggregate familial characteristics from her father/brother and mix them with the interactions of strangers at a distance (on the moors). Does that make sense?

[Anonymous No.18598605]

>>18598211
Sounds more like Schizoid personality disorder than autism.

[Anonymous No.18598607]

>>18598211
She was an animist. Common the world over historically. This is only indicative of "florid insanity" to those ignorant of basic anthropology and religion, and those that are also bugmen.

[Anonymous No.18598609]

>>18598605
I would tend to agree but the differential diagnosis for an isolated person with untreated ASD vs a Schizoid is basically a coinflip.

[Anonymous No.18598618]

>>18598211
What a relatable woman.

[Anonymous No.18598620]

>>18598592
Your paragraph makes you sound like the autist desu.

[Anonymous No.18598621]

>>18598607
An interesting view. She was a pretty overt Christian even in her private writings (in which she have no need to conceal her true feelings) but subscribed to no specific Christian denomination and based on her writings is most often characterized as a Christian Mystic.

Would an animist believe in an afterlife of eternal bliss, as her poetry makes clear she did? (not a trick question, I'm sincerely curious)

[Anonymous No.18598639]

>>18598620
Ok? What more do you want?

[Anonymous No.18598706]

>>18598621
Depends, I suppose, as animism is a syncretic feature of many belief systems throughout history (the world over.) It's compatible with Christianity in an unorthodox, original or uninformed practice (it's common in voodoo in that way.) Famously St. Francis ministered to animals. One must consider also the medieval and English folk beliefs that say plants for example had not only symbolic significance but had 'magical' or mystical properties even actual humanoid characteristics (e.g. mandrakes.) Her beliefs, with a little originality and isolation, could conceivably be chalked up to just the sediment of beliefs from her cultural heritage.

[Anonymous No.18598729]

>>18598706
Your paragraph makes you sound like the autist desu.

[Anonymous No.18598744]

>>18598729
I'm writing in a way I hope you understand. I would dim the brightness of it for you if I could.

[Anonymous No.18598748]

>>18598744
The autist desu guy and myself (>>18598621) are not the same person.

[Anonymous No.18598795]

>>18598592
>>18598706
Autism Speaking