Madness: A Bipolar Life

Pulitzer Prize–nominated author of Wasted, Marya Hornbacher's astonishing New York Times best—selling memoir from the belly of bipolar disorder.

Marya Hornbacher tells the story that until recently she had no idea was hers to tell: that of her life with Type I ultra—rapid—cycle bipolar disorder, the most severe form of bipolar disease.

In Madness, Hornbacher relates that bipolar can spawn eating disorders, substance abuse, promiscuity, and self—mutilation, and that for too long these symptom...