Guest Blogger: Lizabeth Schuch

         It's been twenty-seven years since I heard the words that I still remember so clearly, "Lizabeth, you are a textbook case manic depressive" (now bipolar type I).  I was seventeen and in the throes of manic episode.  The diagnosis did not mean a whole lot to me at the time.  Psychotic features came along with it (for me those were delusions of grandeur and even some slight visual hallucinations).  It pretty much came out of the blue—well after a trigger—but what I mean is that I never had any other symptoms prior to it.  After a month-long hospitalization and when everything got back to normal, you would have almost thought that it just "went away".  I didn't really consider if it would happen again.  A few months later, I graduated from high school and went to college, took my medicine and listened to [ Read More ]


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