Editing Harlan Ellison (section)

====Health issues====

Ellison suffered from health issues regularly through his life, including severe depression toward the end,<ref>[https://www.vulture.com/2013/07/harlan-ellison-isnt-dead-yet.html "Harlan Ellison Isn’t Dead Yet"], Jaime Lowe 2013</ref> some of which he believed was [[Epstein Barr]]/[[Chronic Fatigue Syndrome]].<ref name="cfs">J. Michael Straczynski 2024-09-10, [https://www.facebook.com/groups/4586629500/posts/10161513542804501/ Facebook]</ref> A few years before his death, Straczynski convinced him to seek psychiatric diagnosis for the depression, resulting in a diagnosis & treatment of [[bipolar disorder]]; he commented, “Once you know he was bipolar, a lot of things that don’t make sense suddenly make sense.”<ref>[https://lamag.com/books/harlan-ellison-last-words-dangerous-visions-sci-fi-writer-posthumous-comeback "Harlan Ellison’s Last Words: The Ambitious Plan for Sci-Fi Writer's Posthumous Comeback"], Steve Appleford 2024-03-29</ref> The treatment "had a salutary effect for a while, until the stroke hit".<ref name="cfs"/> Straczynski wrote a more detailed account of Ellison's struggles with mental illness, published in the posthumous ''Last Dangerous Visions''.<ref>"Ellison Exegesis", ''Last Dangerous Visions'' 2024</ref>