What if you always knew you were special...and then one day you found that being -special- wasn't a good thing? In fact, it was very, very bad. I was a high school cross-country track star on a full-ride scholarship to the college of my choice when I was hit hard with the most severe form of bipolar disorder (manic depressive illness). Little did I know then that the only way my speed was going to help me was to escape from a maximum-security mental institution Bipolar. On one hand, the word is loaded with stigma. On the other, so many celebrities, star athletes and other notable people have...