On the Verge of ‘Vital Exhaustion’?

Click Here to Read: On the Verge of ‘Vital Exhaustion’? by Benedict Carey in the New York Times on May 31, 2010.

Sufferers all: Clockwise from top left, William James, Isaac Newton, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gene Tierney are among the well-known people said to have had a nervous breakdown, or something like it, during their lives.