A review by juliemsimons
Fast Girl: A Life Spent Running from Madness by Suzy Favor Hamilton

3.0

It is a compelling story but also a disturbing one. Being a practicing psychotherapist for over 20 years, I suspect that there is another layer of mental illness beyond Bipolar Disorder that adds to both the complication and the fascination of this tell-all. One example is her seeming ability to compartmentalize her mental illness and the obvious chasm in her personality. Throughout the narrative there is evidence of fragmented and at times contradictory thoughts. Though I support the effort to bring light to the stigma of mental illness and Bipolar Disorder, the book itself did not seem consistent with that intent and in the end I was left slightly baffled and unnerved.