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Van Gogh and Bipolar Disorder

"Vincent  van Gogh  was born on March 30, 1853, in Groot-Zundert, Netherlands.  Van Gogh  was a post-impressionist painter whose work, notable for its beauty, emotion and color, highly influenced 20th century art. He struggled with mental illness, and remained poor and virtually unknown throughout his life." 1 His art helped him stay emotionally balanced because a s he was painting some of the most celebrated and influential art, Van Gogh was dealing with mental illness: depression, anxiety and, according to some accounts, the symptoms of bipolar disorder — which would eventually drive him to commit suicide shortly after his 37th birthday. In his art, besides of the influence of God because of his minister father, it can be seen that the artist has some serious mood changes. That is the conclusion of his mental illness, bipolar disorder; this  condition is known as madnessand  has a long and complex history. For centuries the conditio...

Michaelangelo and Obsessive Compulsive Dissorder

"Michelangelo was born on March 6, 1475, in Caprese, Italy. Born to a family of moderate means in the banking business, Michelangelo became an apprentice to a painter before studying in the sculpture gardens of the powerful Medici family. What followed was a remarkable career as an artist in the Italian Renaissance, recognized in his own time for his artistic virtuosity. His works include the "David" and "Pieta" statues and the ceiling paintings of Rome's Sistine Chapel, including the "Last Judgment." Although he always considered himself a Florentine, Michelangelo lived most of his life in Rome, where he died in 1564, at age 88." 1 He sometimes fell into spells of melancholy, which were recorded in many of his literary work. e had OCD, he had hard times but it didn’t stop him. He kept the creativity in himself and did not beware to show it to the whole world. But what is OCD? "OCD, or obsessive compulsive dissorder,  is...

Edvard Munch and Anxiety

Mental ilnesses has always been an important topic in the people's minds since the beginning. Until the 20th century, nobody knew the reasons of those ilnesses and why they occur in people's minds. But with the progress of pyhschology and reseraches, today we know most of the reasons of the mental ilnesses and we know how to cure them.But until the age of englightenment, people thought that patients of mental ilness were haunted. "Early medicine men, considering such individuals to be possessed by demons, introduced a technique called trephination. This procedure involved drilling a hole in the head of the individual to let evil spirits out of the body. Many other civilizations independently developed such a procedure. For example, among the remains of the Incas in Peru are skulls with holes and trephination devices." 1   But today we have many medicines and cures for those ilnesses.And if we look at the history, we can even say that those ilnesses can have s...