“…1). Bethany Ober Mannon (2019) states that the notion of narrative continuity that constitutes the concept of selfhood is being problematized and ruptured in the context of patients who are diagnosed to be depressed or bipolar. Mannon argues that the narrators through their illness narratives throw light on the "essentially fluid, shifting, and the piecemeal nature of the self theorized by postmodern philosophers and psychologists but those who display these symptoms continually express a strong desire for unified identity and, more importantly agency" (para.…”