A first hand account of a woman struggling with bipolar disease. Jaime Lowe is a middle class Jewish girl grew up with caring parents (father a lawyer and mother is script writer for Hollywood, they divorced when Jaime was 18 months old) in LA. Her manic episode first happened at 16 when her older brother went to Berkeley for college and she attributed her episode to separation anxiety. And a relapse when she went to NYC working as a magazine writer after graduating from UCLA. The 2nd episode lasted for a year or two and she had to come back to LA living with her mother while she tried to recover from psychotic at home (per her psychiatrist recommendation). She took lithium for twenty plus years and later found that lithium caused her kidney damage and had to switch to Depakote.
A very engaging first hand depiction of her thought process and mental state.
One interesting anecdote is when Jaime switched to Depatoke, she noticed that she had lesser side effect when taking Depatoke ER(Extended Release) than Depatoke DR(Delayed Release), which her pharmacist failed to distinguish and don't know the difference
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