Opinion | June 8, 2023: “There’s a well-known passage in the title essay of Joan Didion’s 1979 collection ‘The White Album’ that begins with a litany of 1960s tragedies, including the massacre at My Lai, a harrowing story of child abandonment and a very brief and cryptic mention of Robert Kennedy’s assassination: ‘I watched Robert Kennedy’s funeral on a veranda at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Honolulu.’ The section concludes with a personal revelation: In June of 1968, Ms. Didion experienced ‘an attack of vertigo, nausea and a feeling that she was going to pass out,’ for which she underwent an extensive psychiatric evaluation and was prescribed amitriptyline, an antidepressant. ‘By way of comment,’ she wrote, ‘I offer only that an attack of vertigo and nausea does not now seem to me an inappropriate response to the summer of 1968.’ Over 40 years later, ‘The White Album’ is regarded as…