Detour: My Bipolar Road Trip in 4-D

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Simon and Schuster, Jun 18, 2003 - Biography & Autobiography - 224 pages
By all appearances, Lizzie Simon was perfect. She had an Ivy League education, lots of friends, a loving family, and a dazzling career as a theater producer by the age of twenty-three. But that wasn't enough: Lizzie still felt alone in the world, and largely misunderstood. Having been diagnosed with bipolar disorder as a teenager, she longed to meet others like herself; she wanted to hear the experiences of those who managed to move past their manic-depression and lead normal lives. So Lizzie hits the road, hoping to find "a herd of her own." Along the way she finds romance and madness, survivors and sufferers, and, somewhere between the lanes, herself. Part road trip, part love story, Detour is a fast-paced, enduring memoir that demystifies mental illness while it embraces the universally human struggle to become whole.
 

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Section 1
1
Section 2
35
Section 3
46
Section 4
49
Section 5
89
Section 6
131
Section 7
175
Section 8
199
Section 9
207
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About the author (2003)

Lizzie Simon grew up in Providence, Rhode Island, where, as a child, she acted for stage, T.V., film and radio. She graduated from Columbia with a B.A., in history in 1988. While at Columbia she hosted a weekly arts radio show called Art Attack, which she continues to guest host. For two years, she was creative producer at the Flea Theater in Tribeca, where she produced and promoted over fourteen full-scale productions, fifty concerts and the works of over thirty choreographers. In the past year she has been freelance writing and speaking on bipolar disorder.

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