Sixty years later, that physical element has still not been identified, either for schizophrenia or for a diagnosis that might now be entertained as explaining a part of Zelda's condition, manic depression - though salts containing lithium are now used to mitigate that condition.
Slocum, was thought to have played a role in her relapses, a phenomenon that once caused Fitzgerald to write, ''I can't help clinging to the idea that some essential physical thing like salt or iron or semen or some unguessed at holy water is either missing or is present in too great quantity.'' Zelda's asthma, mentioned twice in the letters to Dr.
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But later, Fitzgerald seemed to resist that diagnosis, or the notion that her illness entailed an organic psychosis: ''I would rather have Zelda a sane mystic than a mad realist.'' At the same time, he lists a series of ailments that may shed light on Zelda's condition - a sign that he was looking for physical causation after all. At first, he suggested that Zelda was schizophrenic. Fitzgerald continued to live in Baltimore - at the time spousal visits were discouraged during the first weeks of hospitalization - and it was in this period that he wrote the bulk of the letters to Slocum. Jonathan Slocum, owner of a posh clinic, Craig House, in Beacon, N.Y. Three months after her release, she had a relapse, and Fitzgerald contacted Dr. She started to show signs of serious disturbance in the late 1920's, and in November 1930 she began a 15-month stay at the Prangins Clinic in Switzerland. scott fitzgerald had been struggling for years to find the right approach to his wife Zelda's recurrent mental illness. By the time these letters were written, f.
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