Madness: A Bipolar Life

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functioning. Life is very challenging with this disorder, as it can lead to the patients usually inflicting harm upon themselves. Without the proper steps and treatment necessary, one may lead to live a very difficult life with bipolar disorder.
At beginning of the story Madness, I read how there�s a connection to her first novels� story (wasted) as; �Hornbacher candidly and often brutally describes her life before and after the publication of her first book. At that time, she, her friends, family and therapists all believed that, with the conquering of her eating disorder, she would finally also have control over her chaotic and at times out-of-control life.� (�Madness: A Bipolar Life�). Madness: A Bipolar Life as a whole however covers the life Hornbacher went through with her diagnosis with bipolar disorder and how she tried to deal with it. It was only at the age of twenty-four when she was diagnosed with Type I rapid-cycle bipolar, the most severe form of bipolar disorder ...

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may of led towards her diagnosis with Type I rapid-cycle bipolar disorder, the worst kind of bipolar disorder which effects 2.5% of Americans (six million people). Another contribution to her disorder was the self-inflicting harm, which is introduced to the reader in just the opening pages of the story.. Not to mention, if you read her first memoir about the eating disorders that are discussed in Wasted, they also contributed to her bipolar disorder as well, but that�s not what the doctors believed.
Hornbachers� binge drinking was a brilliant diversion to the doctors, as it led to them to a misdiagnosis which caused the doctors to give her the wrong prescription drugs. This then led ...

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