As per the title, I’m looking for novels (so not guidebooks or manuals please) that deal with bipolar disorders (BD) from a mature point of view. As a reference, I just finished The Fault in our Stars by John Green. While the trapping of YA books were impossible to ignore, the writing and the way the characters dealt with terminal illness (and in passing, mood instability not solely related to young age) touched me deep enough that I finished it in one session.
I am looking for something like that, but with BD instead of cancer. If it must be YA, so be it, as long as it’s along those lines, but I would also like some more adult perspective (or a longitudinal one, including multiple points in time). The real point of interest would actually be cyclothymia, but I can imagine that it being such an underdefined category, BD will be more likely to have something. Any suggestions?
by Smashingsoul
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The main character in Samuel Beckett’s *Watt* has unipolar hypomania, though it’s never named as such.
Probably not what you’re looking for, but I’ve heard the memoir “An Unquiet Mind” by Kay Redfield Jamison thrown around a lot with high recommendations. It’s her life story growing up with it up until she wrote the book (she became a practicing psychiatrist specializing in the disorder that ruled her life for so long).
Adelaide, by Genevieve Wheeler
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides