tion 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
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 not
stop. Then in 1890 when he realized that his epileptic state was incurable, he
On July 27, 1890, Vincent van Gogh attempted suicide- but he didn't die. After
lunch, Vincent went to Chateau d'Auvers. He leaned his easel agai
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