"Even when I'm feeling OK, I have a nagging sense I might be on borrowed time.
"Like most people with a mental illness, I'm only too aware of the fragility of my emotional state," she says.
Though, as Forney admits: "By definition I was mentally ill, so perhaps I wasn't always the most rational of judges."įorney had the idea for the book for some time, but held off writing and drawing until she was sure that she could cope with the consequences. Her book, Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo & Me, is an unflinching and frequently unforgiving narrative of what it means to have bipolar disorder and how treatment can often seem more terrifying than the illness itself.
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