More or Less Maddy

by Lisa Genova

And hypomania, that glittery on-ramp to mania’s superhighway, is the best fucking state of being in the Universe, almost worth the cost of whatever wreckage ensues on the speedway.

“Vegas is like Where’s Waldo? for mental illness. Everywhere you look, you’ll find a person who is most definitely diagnosed with something. Or on a lot of drugs. Or both. So mania blends right in. Mania totally passes for normal in Vegas.