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Edgar Allan Poe as of Sept. 2004 has been said to suffer from Manic-Depressive Bipolar disorder. This would explain the fact that as time grew his writings became more disturbed, because the affliction worsens with time. Poe's drinking and smoking problems were more than likely a way of self-medication. However because we only have to go on biograghies and auto-biograghies we can not be exactly sure if this is the case. But using his own writings this is the conclusion.

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