Van Gogh's Famous Madness - Truth or Myth?

Further reading:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/arti...

"There are no conclusive answers - opinion has shifted with the fashion of the times. At the time he was diagnosed as epileptic, put in solitary confinement, and treated with a succession of hot and cold baths.

Since then he’s been called bipolar, psychotic, even schizophrenic. Today, manic depressive seems closest to the mark. In all likelihood, Van Gogh’s insanity was the result of several factors: there was some history of madness in the family; he’d been unstable from an early age; syphilis may have played a part (his brother Theo died of syphilis six months later) and his heavy drinking didn’t help…" - BBC

Is the mad artist's most famous trait even true?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/arti...