“…There is a relatively large body of work that engages first-person narrative as a strategy to preserve and explore self-identity when illness threatens to fragment it (Church, 1995;McDonnell, 2018;Michallat, 2017;Stone, 2006). Existing first person narratives of madness confront its triggers and symptoms in ways that look to rebuild, strengthen, and reinstate self-identity in the face of its disintegration (Bassman, 2007;Burstow & Weitz, 1988;Pembroke, 2009;Romme et al, 2009;Russo & Sweeney, 2016;Shannonhouse, 2003).…”