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As a unique writing group, those suffered from insanity often cure themselves through words or literature, and special experience also provide them with extraordinary creation in art. Virginia Woolf was a typical example.Woolf was a mental patient, tortured all her life with schizophrenia, and had shown the tendency of suicide more than once. Her mental illness was attributable to genetic factor, the death of relatives, sexual harassment from half-brother in her childhood, the war and the pressure of facing public opinion. Woolf s mental illness was in accordance with her writing. On the one hand, intermittent bouts of insanity interfered her writing and brought negative effects. On the other hand, it also inspired her enthusiasm, imagination and creativity in literature, and that provide her with a unique literature angle.As a genius writer who had illness, Woolf made great use of the illness experience to service her writing, realizing a perfect connection of genius and weakness. Not only did she transform the material of madness into the material of art, but also concealed her own imagination, experience and thinking under the coat of disease. The imagination, experience and thinking in the final evoluted into the theme, imaginary, image, genre and style of her works.On the one hand, Virginia Woolf conveyed her love and miss to her families on the foundation of memory, created a series of images of patient and doctor to reflect her own madness experience, and that highlighted the theme of loneliness and death through it. On the other hand,the mental disease left "sequelae" on the form of her works, such as the unique image series, the numerous fragments of the consciousness and the gloomy lyrical style.