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Abstract
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Background. This investigation attempts to evaluate the mental disorder that the novelist Virginia Wolf suffered from, and to determine the relationship between her creativity and her insanity.
METHOD. To give detailed descriptions of her major breakdowns and minor illnesses her suicide, her personality, and her outstanding artistic achievements.
RESULTS. What most characterizes her illnesses is in particular, typical phases of severely impairing depression and significant mania, culminating in suicide at the age of 59. this is a convincing life history of bipolar I disorder although a broad bipolar spectrum (soft bipolar II) is also possible to be considered. She was moderately stable as well exceptionally productive from 1914 until she committed suicide in 1941.
CONCLUSIONS. Virginia Woolf created little or nothing while unwell, and was productive between attacks. A detailed analysis of her own creativity over the years shows that her illnesses were the source of material for her novels.
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