Was Emily Dickinson’s legendary isolation a conscious choice, or a sign of deeper mental struggles? In this episode of The Mad Genius Thesis, we explore Emily Dickinson: A Literary Life by Linda Wagner-Martin, examining how her seclusion, potential struggles with depression and anxiety, and obsession with mortality shaped her poetic genius. Her unconventional style and introspective themes suggest a mind wrestling with profound emotional depths, possibly exacerbated by repressed trauma, societal pressures, or neurodivergence. Was her isolation a sanctuary for creativity, or did her mental health struggles lock her away from the world that might have celebrated her in life, rather than only in death?

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