The last days of David Foster Wallace

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

I've taken anti-depressants, and for me they were a cure worse 
than the disease. . . 

         Unbeknown to most, Wallace had suffered from clinical 
         depression for the past two decades. Family and close 
         friends knew of it, but few others did. Over those years, 
         Wallace had taken powerful anti-depression medication 
         that had allowed him to work and write, according to his 
         father, James Donald Wallace. But recently the drugs 
         had been having very serious side effects. In June of 2007, 
         Wallace and his doctor decided that they would have to try 
         another course of treatment. . . .

http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2008/09/26/david_foster_wallace/