When your mind
turns against you
SURVIVAL
becomes a daily act
Personality Pendulum is a firsthand account of living through anxiety, depression, mania, and psychosis—and the tools that made it possible to come back.
This is not a clinical guide.
This is not theory.
This is what it feels like to lose control of your own mind—and fight your way back.
Lisa Hadlock writes from lived experience: the fear, the confusion, the isolation, and the relentless internal battle that comes with Bipolar I Disorder.
But this is also a book about what works.
The small, repeatable tools that make it possible to keep moving forward—even when everything in you is telling you not to.
The mind does not stay in one place.
It swings.
Between clarity and confusion.
Between hope and despair.
Between control and chaos.
Personality Pendulum gives language to that movement—and a way to navigate it.
It began with something smaller:
Counting one action at a time.
Getting out of bed.
Brushing your teeth.
Taking a walk.
One becomes two.
Two becomes ten.
Recovery didn’t begin with a breakthrough.
And slowly, you begin to
return to yourself.
