Managing Mental Illness Can Be a Team Effort

y husband, glass sculptor and artist Dale Chihuly, has bipolar disorder. He started suffering from periods of depression as a college student in the ’60s, but he wasn’t diagnosed until he reached his early 50s. That was about the time he and I met—I worked with him on what would become a breakthrough—and the time that I first witnessed his rapid shifts in mood and prolonged periods of depression or hypomania.