In this book review of The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions by Jonathan Rosen
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The best books about OCD offer hope. I have struggled with OCD for years but was only diagnosed in the last two years. I remember when I got the diagnosis, suddenly my suffering had a name, suddenly my weird rituals
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Are you struggling to stay awake today? Still need to reset your clocks? Same. I’m trying to adjust to the time change yesterday and epically failing. Daylight saving started yesterday, meaning we
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I talk about depression and bipolar on here, and I talk about book blogging on here, but today I want to talk about where the two intersect. I’m in no way an
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(This post contains spoilers for The Fault in Our Stars… also, I wrote this as part of my application for MFA programs in spring 2017—and it worked!) Upon a first read, John Green’s
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Because I have a chronic illness that can be debilitating, I have spent some time during the past few years homebound. I work remotely, so I’m home a lot of the time
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When it comes to reading, bipolar disorder is definitely a mixed bag. Let me give you some background on my reading history post-diagnosis and offer some tips and advice for reading when bipolar.
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Recently I was feeling really bummed out. I was talking to my best friend on the phone and explaining that usually I start to tune a novel or premise out when it’s
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A Little Personal History The first time I officially recognized my illness as a disability was in 2006 when I registered with Student Disability Services at Barnard College, which I attended at
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Being bipolar myself, I have a natural interest in reading stories about mental illness in fiction and nonfiction. My mental illness shelf on Goodreads is one of my most populated. So today
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