The last days of David Foster Wallace

[Michael Bailey]

hemingway had ect shortly before he offed himself too

ect.org for some interesting stuff, particularly the Hall of Shame





On 9/26/08, robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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/
>


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