Bipolar is an identity, its who you are it can be treated but it's still who you are. Jayma have to live with that person within her. Each day is a struggle to stay alive. "This is a riveting portrayal of a courageous brain alternating between exhilarating highs and numbing lows." Jayma suffered her first attack of manic-depression at seventeen. We follow her battle with the illness through college, through a passionate love affair and desperate loss, through episodes of violence, bouts of madness, and attempted suicide.