I provide context by referencing theory and practice in narrative medicine and current literary criticism around trauma plots.
"This autoethnographic story is about mental illness, specifically bi-polar disorder."
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"Although I never planned it, I wrote a series of novels, Celestial Bodies, that have pierced my heart in a way nothing else ever has, changing me as a writer and as a person."
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