Adam Gerhardstein

Adam Gerhardstein was diagnosed with bipolar disorder when he was twenty-one. Before then, as a college student, he started a nonprofit doing charitable work in Kenya. While living with bipolar disorder, he has gotten married, had a daughter, and has worked as a mental health worker, landscaper, lobbyist, organizer, civil rights attorney, Montessori teacher, and is currently a carpenter. He is from Cincinnati, Ohio, and now resides in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he tries to spend as much time as possible in a canoe. He is the author of I Hope I Get Well: A Memoir of Bipolar Disorder. His article, A First Episode Standard for Involuntary Treatment, was published in the University of St. Thomas Law Journal. He also writes a creative nonfiction newsletter called “The LoveLetter from Adam Gerhardstein” that he mails (with stamps) around the world.