Chapter I
Beers recounts his early life and the morbid fear of epilepsy following his brother's seizures, which he identifies as the seed of his breakdown.
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Beers describes the onset of his mental collapse, culminating in his leap from a fourth-story window in New Haven in June 1900, an event he frames as the pivot of his life.
Chapter II
The famous account of his suicide attempt by leaping from the fourth-story window on June 23, 1900, a passage frequently anthologized as a vivid first-person description of psychotic despair.
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