What happened to Philip K Dick?

By envelope_tide

I’ve read *Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep* and watched the *Blade Runner* movies, so I kinda figured he was just a one-hit kind of thing. But now I keep running into people saying he’s actually super respected in sci-fi, even if he’s not really mainstream. That said, I keep seeing stuff about him losing it toward the end of his life, and I can’t tell what’s true or what the whole story is. I’ve tried looking around but I can’t find the full picture. Does anyone know what actually happened, like in more detail? Or at least a good link that lays it out.