I Am Someone You Know: The Fight For Recovery and Mental Health

A strange room. White walls, white bed sheets, and a white wrist bracelet. The last thing he recalls is a knife. Then... darkness.

In his early twenties, bipolar disorder spread through David Shamszad's mind like wildfire. The pendulum swung back and forth between mania and depression, which he kept secret and untreated. After watching how alcohol tormented his father, David tried to avoid it. But in distress, he turned to that familiar lifeline to ease the pain.

As the years roared by, alcoh...