Crossover:
A Look Inside a Manic Mind

A personal memoir detailing the evolution of psychotic thoughts and how they influenced Brett’s behavior during the three manic episodes that spanned the past decade of his life.

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As featured on The Depression Files:

“An intensely honest and engrossing account of a young man’s struggles to calm his demons.”

– Kirkus Reviews

Brett’s Bipolar Timeline

Age: 0 – 19

No signs or symptoms, not the slightest clue what bipolar disorder was aside from memorizing the definition in psych 101

Age: 19 -21

Life threatening manic episode and 18 months of recovery, diagnosed psychotic disorder NOS

Age: 21 – 22

No signs or symptoms, great job and career

Age: 22 – 24

Life threatening manic episode and 18 months of recovery,
diagnosed psychotic disorder NOS

Age: 24 – 29

No signs or symptoms, great job and career

Age: 29 – 31

Life threatening manic episode and 18 months of recovery,
diagnosed bipolar 1

Age: 31 – Present

No signs or symptoms, wife, daughter, great job and career, house

Brett Stevens is a thirty-one-year-old first-time author who has written this memoir describing his personal experience with Bipolar I disorder. This story started out as a therapeutic exercise to write a narrative of his life, integrating his childhood memories with the visceral accounts of recurrent major psychiatric illness in adulthood.

Brett’s Books

Crossover

A Look Inside a Manic Mind

Crossing Back Over

The Practice of Owning and Accepting Bipolar Disorder