Van Gogh soon became addicted to green stuff. In 1888, his mental and self-inflicted illnesses, epilepsy, bipolar disorder, and lead poisoning, started to show more, now that he was not in control of his actions while under the influence. He frequently had fits of rage when things did not go his way and those lead to seizures. Van Gogh was born with a brain lesion which was the main cause of his epilepsy. His physicians treated him with digitalis which is quite toxic, highly addictive, and an overdose can actually cause seizures, nausea, and cause a patient's vision to be yellowed; hence the reason van Gogh painted with lots of yellows in his work. With the frequent overdoses of digitalis and absinthe, he was never in his right mind. One night, a friend went to check on Vincent and had found him in a state of delusion with a razor in his hand. When the friend fled, van Gogh wandered around and had cut off a bit of his earlobe and offered it to a local prostitute, asking her to keep it
Van Gogh soon became addicted to green stuff. In 1888, his mental and self-inflicted illnesses, epilepsy, bipolar disorder, and lead poisoning, started to show more, now that he was not in control of his actions while under the influence. He frequently had fits of rage when things did not go his way and those lead to seizures. Van Gogh was born with a brain lesion which was the main cause of his epilepsy. His physicians treated him with digitalis which is quite toxic, highly addictive, and an overdose can actually cause seizures, nausea, and cause a patient's vision to be yellowed; hence the reason van Gogh painted with lots of yellows in his work. With the frequent overdoses of digitalis and absinthe, he was never in his right mind. One night, a friend went to check on Vincent and had found him in a state of delusion with a razor in his hand. When the friend fled, van Gogh wandered around and had cut off a bit of his earlobe and offered it to a local prostitute, asking her to keep it