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十大传奇作家的自杀悲剧
Depression and mental
illness are issues that must be taken seriously.
Also, it needs to b
econsidered that
sometimes mental illness has no rhyme or reason
–
anyone can fall ill
w
ith anxiety,panic, feelings of
helplessness, hopelessness, loneliness, rejection
and worthle
ssness. Life events canalso
trigger stronger periods of depression, such as
aging, death o
f loved ones, emotional
trauma,physical illness, unemployment and more.
What’s
most
i
mportant is to know the risk factors
andthe signs.
我们必须严肃对待失望沮丧之类的精神状况。
同时,
也要意识到有时候有些精神病的出现毫
无征
兆、毫无理由
—
每个人都会有紧张感,焦虑感,无助感,绝望感
,孤单感,排斥感和无
价值感。
生命中的大事能引发一段时间的
抑郁:
变老、
最爱的人离世、
情感创伤
、
身体疾病、
失业等等。最重要的是要了解这些危险因素和危险
信号。
Artists and
writers are not immune from mental illness, and
according to some research,
creativeindividuals may be more likely
to suffer from some mental disorders. Genetics
fir
m deCODE claimstheir research shows
that creative types (painters, musicians, dancers,
and writers) are 25% morelikely to
carry a gene associated with mental illness than
profe
ssions the researchers deemed as
lesscreative. However, Harvard Psychiatry
Professor Al
bert Rothenberg claims that
there is noconnection between mental illness and
creativity,
that we may still be
romanticizing the notion ofthe 19th century
struggling artist fighting
their
demons.
艺术家和作家也会得精神病。一些调查显示,富有创造力的人更容易遭
受精神病的折磨。
deCODE
基因公司宣称他们的调查结果显
示,像画家、音乐家、舞蹈家、作家这类富有创造
力的人得精神病的概率比创造力低的那
些人高
25%
。哈佛精神病学教授罗滕伯格认为,精
神病跟创造力之间没有必要的联系,我们依旧把
19
世纪饱受精神病折磨的艺术家们的故事
浪漫化了。
Regardless of whether or
not there is a connection, below we have listed 10
legendary w
riters whotragically took
their own life. If you know someone struggling
with any of these
emotions, or if
youknow anyone who has attempted suicide, please
reach out to the Nati
onal Suicide
PreventionLifeline at 800.273.8255.
不管这
期间到底有没有联系,
下面我们列出了
10
< br>大传奇作家的自杀悲剧。
如果你知道有谁
正在同情感作斗
争,或是想自杀的,请拨打全国自杀预防的生命热线
800.273.8255.
10. Virginia Woolf
(1882-1941)
10.
弗吉尼亚
< br>·
伍尔夫
(1882-1941)
Virginia Woolf is most well-known for
Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927),
an
d heressay A Room of
One’s
Own (1929) that argued
a woman must have the economic
means
and aroom of her own in order to write. She
suffered mental breakdowns after he
r
mother’s
death in1895 and
her
father’s
death in 1904.
The death of her brother in 1906
also
brought on similarepisodes. Her illness was said
to be periodic and recurrent. Woolf
would say that she was
―a
sanewoman who had an
illness.‖
If diagnosed
today, Woolf
would likely be
categorized as suffering frommanic-depression or
bipolar disorder accordi
ng to some.
弗吉尼亚
·
伍尔夫因
1925
年发表的小说《达洛维夫人》和
1927
年的《到灯塔去》而闻名一
世,她在
1929
年发表的文章《一间自己的房间》中就说了,女人必须有经济能力和一间属
于她自己的房间来写作。
1895
年母亲离世和
1904
年父亲离世使她精神崩溃,
2
年后弟弟的
去世给她造成了同样的打击。她的病据说是周期性的。伍尔夫说
自己是
―
神志清醒的精神病
人
‖
,如果按今天来诊断,她得的可是是躁狂抑郁症或躁郁症。
Woolf also saw a
variety of doctors during her lifetime. On March
28,
1941, after her home wasdestroyed
by the Blitz of World War II, Woolf filled the
pockets
of her overcoat with stones
andwalked into the River Ouse. Her body was
recovered thre
e weeks later. Her last
note to herhusband ended with
―Everything
has gone from me
bu
t the certainty of your goodness. I
can’t
goon spoiling your
life any longer. I
don’t
think t
wo people could have been
happier than we havebeen.
V.‖
She died at 59.
< br>伍尔夫一生看过无数医生。二战时,伦敦大轰炸摧毁了她的家,
1941
年
3
月
28
日那天,伍
尔夫在外套口袋装满了石头,走进了欧塞河。
< br>3
周后,人们发现了她的尸体。给丈夫的遗言
中,最后一
句她写道:
―
一切都离我而去,只有你的善良一直伴随着我。我
不能再继续毁了
你的生活,我相信,世上没有哪两个人可以像我们在一起这样幸福,伍尔
夫。
‖
她去世时年
仅
< br>59
岁。
9. David Foster Wallace (1962-2008)
9.
戴维
·
福斯特
·
华莱士
(1962-2008
)
David Foster
Wallace’s
Infinite Jest was
listed by Time magazine as one of the best
Engli
sh-languagenovels from 1923-2005.
Wallace’s
unfinished novel,
The Pale King, published
posthumously,
was afinalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
He was a professor, a maxi
malist, as
well as a non-fictionwriter.
戴维
< br>·
福斯特
·
华莱士的小说
《无极的玩笑》
被时代周刊评为
1923-2
005
年间最好的英文小说
之一。
他未
完成的小说
《苍白的国王》
,
于死后出
版,
最终入围普利策小说奖。
他是个教授,
是个极繁主义者,同时也是个非小说作家。
Wallace’s
father shared that
his son had struggled with depression for 20 years
and that
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