David Foster Wallace Suffered From "The Black Dog"

The Really: Though David Foster Wallace's suicide came out of the blue for most of us, he had been receiving treatment for serious depression.

Despite what some idiot trolls have said, it was not David Foster Wallace's politics (whatever they were) that got him but the classic Churchillian darkness made visible "black dog" . The New York Times reports that David suffered from depression and had been treated with both medication and electro-shock therapy.