d Rachel. He then said, "Guard this object carefully" (Sweetman 293).
             Some reasons speculated for this unusual self-destruction were:
             2. He failed to harm Paul Gaugin so he turned the violence on himself?
             3. He was just filled with self-loathing?
             It was later discovered that he was tormented by voices and was having hallucinations. Had he attempted to silence the voices by cutting off the offending organ? (Sweetman 294) Vincent van Gogh began having nervous attacks in 1888, and his doctor diagnosed him with having some sort of epilepsy. He then went back to painting (Sweetman 296). Vincent was fully conscious of his state, and after about four months he went to live at the asylum of St. Paul-de-Mausole. He left the asylum after a few months and returned to painting again. But the nervous attacks did
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