The most common psychological illnesses philosophers

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Do not forget that the metaphysical or desires of a more worldly philosophers have often stem from different psychological problems. It also happens in reverse, is an intellectual problem derives psychological delusions. This is because a true philosopher working on himself, so that concern disorders I tend to be most common among this guild. We found a few varieties evident.
Melancholy is the first. Reflecting on death, the human condition or similar topics is something that easily leads to a state of sadness, which can be temporary or chronic. Heraclitus could be the first afflicted. At the end of his life, disgusted by the vice of his fellow citizens of Ephesus, became a misanthrope. The incomplete or chaotic state of some of his works is blamed by Theophrastus to this feeling that dominated. Hanna Arendt is more direct and clear. It literally says "As I am a melancholy, than just thinking I can fight.". Walter Benjamin is betrayed quickly and often appears in photos with downcast eyes and melancholy.
The manic-depressive swing refers to the passing from strong phases of exaltation to the deepest depression. Auguste Comte is a good representative of this condition, after being deceived by his wife, scaring exalted. He sticks a fork in the cheek of a servant and, months later, living in a near-vegetative state.
The anxiety is historically confused and melancholy that has been used for cases of anxiety and melancholy itself. We describe a number of philosophers who fall into state clearly anxious. Kierkegaard sees in such a state of anxiety and melancholy that supports the need for a psychiatric view. Is described thus: "From very young I was under the influence of an immense melancholy depth of which finds its only true expression in the faculty, who has been granted degree equally immense, hidden under the appearance and enjoyment of life." Hegel confesses: "I am an anxious man. Schopenhauer neurotic since the death of his father is a misanthropic, misogynist, Depressed, ... says, "I inherited my father's curse and anguish that I fight with all my strength. This anxiety comes over me, sometimes for a trifle, with such brutality that I see as something done, a catastrophe merely possible, even just unthinkable. "Hobbes, who sleeps with two loaded pistols for fear of attacks, confesses that" the Fear and I were born twins "in reference to his premature birth motivated by the Spanish army troops.
Among social phobics have to Thomas Aquinas on the run from his peers. To say mass at the church comes before everyone and retire quickly for fear of being seen by others. Descartes makes no effort to find him, such as constantly changing domicile.
In hypochondriasis could see a list that would include Erasmus, Voltaire and Kant. The latter describes the phenomenon: "The imagined hypochondriac who suffers from all the diseases that have heard of."
With dissociative disorders, we refer to the altered states of consciousness, depersonalization, etc ... In the example of Plato, which personalized philosopher Socrates only, we could have a case.
In personality disorders the patient remains the same, but with much suffering. Megalomania is usually a simple case for this section. The philosopher in turn is thought to be more than it is. Between talking to God and speak as if God were no great distance. Giordano Bruno and Abelardo are examples of this case. The latter said: "I believed that was the only philosopher in the world.." Rousseau belongs to another variant, is a paranoid lost. Famous in 1761 when the Jesuits imagine going to stand in his Emile. For him there is a plot "The judges hate me (...) The philosophers to whom I have exposed, they want to lose at any price and will get it (...) the priests, philosophers sold to harass me (...) The authors plagiarize me and I censor. "Schelling has neuroses of all kinds. It is extremely likely, he fights with teachers, with peers, with students ... a cyclothymic temperament coupled with noise phobia.

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