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Dec 1, 1996 · She died in 1948, eight years after her husband, in a fire in a mental hospital in Asheville, N.C., where she was receiving insulin shock treatments. Much has changed since then in the care of...
In his memoir A Moveable Feast, Hemingway claims he realized that Zelda had a mental illness when she insisted that jazz singer Al Jolson was greater than Jesus Christ. Hemingway alleged that Zelda sought to destroy her husband, and she purportedly taunted Fitzgerald over his penis' size.
Jan 12, 2021 · Beautiful, talented, and deeply flawed, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald battled demons ranging from mental illness to alcoholism and lost. When they first married, they were deeply in love and widely adored — but it didn't take long for the first cracks to show.
Feb 28, 2023 · Zelda Fitzgerald was a writer, dancer, and Jazz Age celebrity who struggled on and off with mental illness. Her husband, famed writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, called her the first American...
Feb 21, 2017 · In 1930, Zelda was diagnosed with schizophrenia and spent her remaining years in and out of various mental health clinics. The family was hit hard by The Great Depression and left penniless.
Zelda had been diagnosed as a chronic schizophrenic – though modern psychiatrists believe she may have suffered from bipolar disorder. She had been in and out of Highland Hospital since her husband, Scott, checked her in on April 8, 1936.
Feb 26, 2018 · Zelda suffered her first mental breakdown in 1930 in Paris. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, she spent time at a variety of mental health institutions overseas and in the U.S. as she hoped for a solution to save her from her mental demons.
