Taking up the latest fashion in one’s fifties is ill advised, but sometimes one just can’t help oneself.
So it was when I was inadvertently catapulted into the ranks of the ultratrendy last year, diagnosed as mentally ill. Bipolar, to be precise. It is very rare for people over 40 to be so diagnosed. I was over 50.
Still, my late diagnosis was eclipsed by that of George III. He was diagnosed with bipolar disorder as the root of his madness by Andrew Roberts in
