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[hider=Esther Hartwell]Name: Esther Hartwell
Age: 22
Mental Illness: Bipolar Disorder
Biography: Esther was born with dyslexia, which really is not something most people have to worry about too much. Dyslexia is a common disorder that can be fixed with the right guidance and education. Unfortunately, Esther's dyslexia was atypical. As opposed to her reading being disrupted or letter differentiation, her emotions were affected. When was happy, she appeared sad. When she was sad she seemed happy. To make matters even more difficult (she does find herself in a mental asylum, after all), she was a stoic child, adolescent and young woman. Eventually, sometime during her high school years, she began seeing and hearing voices. This also happened around the time when she and her high school sweetheart (who she is no longer dating or seeing) were investing much of their time into sci-fi and aliens.

When Esther graduated from high school, she went off to college. It must have been the change and/or all the stress from college work that triggered nightmares or night terrors that left Esther paralyzed for several seconds to minutes after awaking from sleep. These became regular, and somehow during her first semester at college, she found herself in a psyche ward due to psychotic behaviors. Her parents came to her rescue, arguing she would get better. She was stable! She could live as an outpatient!

Now, at age 22, she has been living in an asylum for almost one year, now. Her parents were starting to go insane just having her around the house. Graduating from college was now turning into a distant dream, but she has not given up all hope, yet.[/hider]