Bipolar girl realizes that medicine makes her write better

After losing his job and wife, and spending time in a institution, a former teacher winds up living with his parents. He wants to rebuild his life and reconcile with his wife, but his father would be happy if he shared his obsession with the Philadelphia Eagles. Things get complicated when he meets a woman, who offers to help him reconnect with his wife, if he will do something very important for her in exchange.

Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.

Essay about the experience of the bipolar disorder manic phase

A foray into a mind at once propagated and plagued by bipolar disorder.

Severe bipolar disorder is not easy to battle. Pret bears witness to how this condition has affected every aspect of her life. She is grappling with her own self, describing it as having two different persons inside her body. While her family and friends have accepted her condition, it hasn't been easy for them.

Bec Charlwood spent most of her 20's with undiagnosed bipolar disorder, she's now been diagnosed, medicated, gone to therapy, processed it all and has made it into a good and funny hour of jokes. It's also a bit about Dolly Doctor, bad grammar, Step Parents and the story of the worst manic episode she had where she got obsessed with one of the greatest bassists of all time. It's me, Bec Charlwood, writing this description by the way. All comedians write their own show descriptions, so I hope that makes reading show descriptions more fun in the future.