Not too long after, he met Mary Welsh and began to fall in love with her and married her in 1946. However very quickly after that marriage Ernest fell in unrequited love with Adriana Ivancich. However things did not last because she was only 19 years old. .
Depression ran in the Hemingway family. Ernest's father became very depressed and committed suicide. As the saying goes, "like father, like son," Ernest also became very depressed and committed suicide. Around 1946 Ernest started his serious occurrences of depression. Mary, his wife, would often try and help him. In 1959 Ernest became very withdrawn and paranoid. This started to lead up to his electroshock treatments in 1960 when he was flown to the Mayo Clinic. Later in 1961, he was admitted to the clinic but then released and attempted suicide. He was sedated and hospitalized and once again attempted suicide for the second time and was flown back to the Mayo Clinic. He was later released on June 26, however this time attempted to commit suicide for the third time and succeeded with his favorite shotgun on July 2, 1961.
Traveling was a definite inspiration to Hemingway not only spiritually and mentally but also to his many writings. Hemingway would often use his experiences from his travels to write the themes and plots for his novels. One of his first travels was to Italy. Hemingway was kept out of the army due to bad eyesight so he volunteered as an ambulance driver for the American Red Cross. He went to Italy, however not too long later, getting wounded and spent the rest of that year in the hospital in Milan getting better. In 1920, he returned to the family summer home in Michigan, shortly after going to Toronto, Canada to tutor a young boy. When he returned to the summer home his very own mother evicted him from there after his 21st birthday. A colleague of his told Hemingway that Paris was a good place for a young writer to start out.
