I just finished reading this last night! I was diagnosed only a month ago, and reading this book really explained quite a few things for me. I could really relate to a lot of the stuff about her youth, and most interestingly she describes an episode of mild mania when she went out to buy every book tangentially related to the Arthurian myth because she felt like they contained the secret to understanding the universe and wow... that blew my mind.
Before reading that section I thought the doctors must have got it wrong, I've never been manic at all, surely that's just a mistake. But that was me. There have been periods when I have become absolutely and unshakeably convinced that a certain author knew the meaning of life, and that if I only went and read everything related to their work I would finally understand all the mysteries of life. Needless to say, I have a book collection that's absolutely outrageous in size, price, and obscurity of subject area.
But yeah. Recognising myself in that was a bit of a shock.
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