[vxxzy]

I'm surprised Hemmingway was used as an example in this piece. He did believe he was being monitored or 'stalked' by the FBI. His wife/family did have him subjected to electro-shock therapy. Wasn't it later proven that Hemmingway was followed and 'harrassed' by the FBI?

[aaron-lebo]

The mention seems to be related to his suicide. "Crazy" might not be the appropriate word, but his suicidal idealization (see For Whom the Bell Tolls) was detrimental. He also shot his legs up while fishing with a machine gun, so he clearly did crazy things...

"Crazy" is a bad word. There's "crazy" and crazy. Hemingway was touched with unique ways of thinking, but he wasn't John Nash (with all due respect to Mr. Nash).

[M_Grey]

Life is so complicated, and sometimes the line is even more blurry.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/us/hospital-guns-mental-h...

[sitkack]

He also had chronic backpain from multiple airplane crashes. Many people that suicide have chronic pain.

[55555]

Probably almost all of them, if we're including emotional pain.

[leggomylibro]

He did go hunting for U-boats in the English Channel with a shotgun and a dinghy in WWII.

I guess that may or may not have been particularly abnormal in Britain at the time, though.