Health of Vincent van Gogh

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There is no consensus on the state of Vincent van Gogh's physical and mental health, with many competing hypotheses advanced as to possible medical conditions that he may have had. These include epilepsy, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, sunstroke, acute intermittent porphyria, lead poisoning, Ménière's disease, schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, substance use disorder, non-suicidal self-injury disorder ("self-harm"), and a possible generalized anxiety disorder. His death in 1890 is generally accepted to have been a suicide: infection from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest.

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