In the novel, Virginia Woolf shows evident traces of psychotic depression through hearing hallucinations, memory loss, and lack of appetite, and in turn lives under her own threat. …show more content…
“I went to look for you, and you weren’t there. I thought something’s happened. I don’t know why…I was so worried. I don’t know why.” (Cunningham, 171) Family members, such as her husband Leonard, made all the necessary efforts to be able to motivate and encourage Virginia with functions and objects that used to be pleasant, such as writing. The suffering takes place through the intense and constant identifications such as arising feelings of anger and guilt by the depressed. Although the thought of losing her was heartbreaking to many of those that were close to her, taking her life might have the best possible solution for Virginia