Chopin musician has epilepsy

The talented composer Fryderyk Chopin suffers from epilepsy, Spanish researchers reveal. Previously, people thought he had hallucinations.

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According to the BBC , his own manuscripts and memoirs of his relatives said that his life was always haunted by ghost scenes and fears.

His girlfriend, George Sand, also recorded the time when Chopin experienced psychedelic experiences, including a trip to the monastery she commented on as " frightening and spooky for him ".

In a letter written to George Sand's daughter, Chopin said that during his writing " Sonata in B flat minor " in England in 1848 at a private salon, he saw creatures emerging from his piano.

According to scientists, hallucinations occur when a number of medical and mental disorders including schizophrenia occur, but they often appear in the form of sounds more than images. To explain what Chopin encountered, Spanish doctors said the composer had suffered from a type of epilepsy called temporal lobe epilepsy.

The seizures of this disease are commonly expressed in patients who see strange, emotional images like those described by Chopin.

They admitted that the composer had to rely on opium to quell the various symptoms of his physical anomalies. The illusion appeared long before he started taking the medicine, but the side effects of the drug made his hallucinations worse.

Dr. Manuel Varquez Caruncho and his team acknowledged that without the help of modern tests, it would be difficult to get an accurate diagnosis of Chopin's illness at the time.

This Polish pianist died in 1849 at the age of 39 due to lung disease, which was recently concluded by cystic fibrosis.