Just got through rereading part one.
Could relate to the way she described mania--esp. pp.36-37 "At the time, however, not only did everything make perfect sense, but it all began to fit into a marvelous kind of cosmic relatedness." and on 67 "The ideas and feelings are fast and frequent like shooting stars and you follow them until you find better and brighter ones"

Found the story about the Rorschach cards to be funny and the mention of "appreciating the complicated, permeable boundaries between bizarre and original thought" on p. 47 is one that I think she addresses more in some of her other books like "Touched with Fire"

I think her initial attitude toward meds is a common one "Antidepressants might be indicated for psychiatric patients, for those of weaker stock, but not for us". She does such an about-face later in book, taking meds no matter how bad side effects but I guess in 70s she really didn't have many options and even lithium was still a very new option. It makes me wonder how she would have interacted with Perry Baird from our first book who pre-dated lithium.