Marbles Comic Bipolar

Shortly before her thirtieth birthday cartoonist ellen forney was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

Marbles comic bipolar.

She tries to reduce stigma and show others that they aren t alone. I was seven years into my bipolar disorder diagnosis when i first read ellen forney s graphic memoir marbles. Mania depression michelangelo and me. A graphic memoir 2012.

Ellen forney wrote graphic novels on her experience with bipolar disorder called marbles. Cartoonist ellen forney documents her bipolar disorder in marbles a graphic memoir that sustains its honesty and humor through both manic and depressive phases. Brilliant advice from my bipolar life. It was still it is still difficult to understand my illness and even harder to express the bipolar experience to others.

Marbles book summary. No matter what she s experiencing. Cartoonist ellen forney explores the relationship between crazy and creative in this graphic memoir of her bipolar disorder woven with stories of famous bipolar artists and writers. Marbles is a look at bipolar disorder from the inside capturing the seductive qualities of mania and the ambivalence some people feel about treatment and medication.

I always find these types. It has been called a. Marbles is a graphic novel memoir by cartoonist ellen forney that depicts 4 monumental years of her life during which time she is diagnosed with bipolar i disorder and the treatment course that follows. It s about her experience being treated for bipolar disorder aka manic depression.

Flagrantly manic and terrified that medications would cause her to lose creativity and her livelihood she began a years long struggle to find mental stability while retaining her passion and creativity. Forney s exhilarating and enlightening autobiographical portrait of her bipolar disorder otherwise known as manic depression takes the reader on an emotional rollercoaster an authentic evocation of the author s journey.