Life Interrupted is both a brilliantly lucid and brutal memoir, capturing the author's devastating three-decade journey with Bipolar 1. Unable to accept her diagnosis without understanding its origin, years are spent bargaining with her illness. She catastrophically yo-yos between psychiatric experts, medication, natural remedies, clinics, lock ups and eventually a litany of electroconvulsive therapies. Despite her best intentions and a string of light-bulb moments, Samantha's mind, spurred on by intractable denial, repeatedly manifests the illness. Hers is a valiant fight for perceived justice. Her enemies are Western psychiatrists, psychologists and boxes of Schedule 7 medications.