Editing Edvard Munch (section)

===Mental health===
[[File:Despair Edvard Munch 1894.jpeg|thumb|''Despair'' by Edvard Munch (1894) displays emotion that could be seen as related to [[Dissociation (psychology)|dissociation]] or [[Depression (mood)|depression]] in [[borderline personality disorder]].]]

Due in part to the mental health struggles and incarceration in an institution of his sister, Laura Catherine, and in part to then-prevailing beliefs in hereditary insanity, Edvard Munch often expressed his fear that he would become insane.<ref>{{harvnb|Prideaux|2005|pp=24–26}}</ref> Critics of his art also accused him of insanity, deploying this term in a purely abusive sense. When his painting ''The Sick Child'' was first displayed in Oslo in 1886, Gustav Wentzel and other young Realists encircled Munch and accused him of being a "madman"; another critic Johan Scharffenberg stated that because Munch derived from an "insane family" his art was also "insane."<ref>{{harvnb|Prideaux|2005|pp=120–121, 207–209}}</ref> He is claimed by some to have had [[borderline personality disorder]], a mental health disorder characterized by fear of [[abandonment (emotional)|abandonment]], chronic feelings of emptiness, [[impulsive behavior]], and various other symptoms.{{sfn|Aarkrog|1990|p=}} Munch also displayed [[alcoholism]], a trait often associated with [[impulsivity]] in BPD.{{efn| name=NIH20163}}