This memoir launches you right into the guts of it.
Cutting, paranoia, alienation from friends, depersonalisation, hallucinations, racing confused thoughts, parental conflict, raging father, owning the identity of "crazy", immobilising depression and delusions, and so it goes.

If you already have a framework of Bipolar in your head, it is very interesting to see this played out in Marya's story. She avoids using clinical terminology for the most part and just gets on with the job of describing what she experienced.