Psychotics are very difficult characters to draw out; that is, unless you are one yourself. I suffer from schizoaffective disorder, and I have written a novel entitled Lithiumbuzz: a love story told through the eyes of a schizophrenic. My own affliction gives me a unique glimpse into the expanse of darkness that is mental illness. This, in turn, gives me the ability to see into the eyes of Dolby, our protagonist. He’s schizoaffective, and his life is slowly crumbling around him as he falls into a state of madness that only the compassion of humanity can bring him out of. Lithiumbuzz is not a love story, but is rather the memory of a love story. After losing his fiancé, Marianne, to the 9/11 attacks, Marcus Dolby winds up in the mental ward of St. Michael’s hospital in Brooklyn. Upon release, he decides to travel across the country to tell her parents that she was pregnant with his child when she died. While on the road he loses his medication, and as he begins to slip farther into insanity, we literally watch it happen; it’s a first-person account of going mad.
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