Anxiety Road Podcast

I generally don't talk about famous people unless they self-declare their illness or there is a compelling reason. Not in a million years did I think that I would have something to say about Ernest Hemingway.  I knew he was a writer. I knew that he seem to love adventure and liked the ladies both within and outside of the bonds of matrimony. And that he was thought of as a manly man.    So when I heard that there was going to be yet another documentary about Hemingway, I couldn't drum up any reason to watch.    Until I learned more about the man. There are multiple levels to his physical and mental pain.   You got family trauma. Not to mention an undiagnosed hereditary disease attacking his organs. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Bipolar Disorder with two other mood disorders s riding in the backseat.   Arthritis. Depression and anxiety. Self-Treating with alcohol.    Indeed he was a messed up man. Who wrote great books. Who was given the Nobel Prize for Literature.  He was a pip but he was also human. So