Some biographies read like medical records.

Vincent van Gogh, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Edgar Allan Poe, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Kafka, Robert Schumann, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf.

Bipolar, autistic, addicted to alcohol, or all at once.

“No great spirit has ever existed without a touch of madness”, good old Aristotle, is often displayed, as a tattoo or on T-shirts.