Having an Old-fashioned Nervous Breakdown Might Be a Good Thing
Michael Lee Stallard
MARCH 31, 2021
Writing in 1936 of his own experience of having a nervous breakdown, Fitzgerald used the analogy of overdrawing money from a bank account: “I began to realize that for two years my life had been a drawing on resources that I did not possess, that I had been mortgaging myself physically and spiritually up to the hilt.”
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