It's terribly sad because such Howard Hughes was a true pioneer of not just one field, but a jack-of-all-trades who left this world with such unfulfilled potential. Hughe's contributions to aviation, film, and business are often shadowed by his later years, years of complete recluse and grotesque compulsiveness.I read an article put out by a UCLA psychologist who said that all Howard Hughes had was a severe case of OCD, a disorder unknown at the time, and because it was untreated it became the cause of his downfall. The psychologist went on to say that after only a few months of therapy he could have been completely cured of all Howard Hughes' plaguing symptoms, and who knows what Hughes could have accomplished aferwards, without such a terrible burden.