The Power of Hysteria

"I'm a high risk. I have an autoimmune disease," she says of her condition. "The life I'm living right now is very, very similar to the life I lived when I was really deep in clinical depression ... it's basically the same daily routine for me." She also wonders about hypochondriacs and people with OCD who are used to their conditions being treated like they're going to be 'terrifying' when this all ends. The author has been diagnosed with bipolar II disorder but does not suffer from any other mental illnesses.