An astonishing dispatch from inside the belly of bipolar disorder, reflecting major new insights when Marya Hornbacher published her first book, wasted: a memoir of anorexia and bulimia, she did not yet have the piece of...An astonishing dispatch from inside the belly of bipolar disorder, reflecting major new insights when Marya Hornbacher published her first book, wasted: a memoir of anorexia and bulimia, she did not yet have the piece of shattering knowledge that would finally make sense of the chaos of her life. At age twenty-four, hornbacher was diagnosed with type I rapid-cycle bipolar, the most severe form of bipolar disorder.