This book has a lot of negative reviews, but I did not find it to be as bad of a book as some people apparently did. I thought it was interesting that her father also had struggles with mental illness. There are several people in one part of my family tree that are laden with various mental illness, so genetic links really interest me. I can see how much this author struggled with her diagnosis, and I can't imagine what that is like for so many people. It was a very interesting book.