Something’s Up with Dad

The highs and lows of growing up with a bipolar father.

“For years, the Tank Story was an easy answer to the question: ‘Why is your dad like this?’ It portrayed him as a wounded soldier, a hero whose injuries never healed. But the truth was much more complicated than that.”

When he was young, Nitsan’s father was known as a brilliant and adventurous guy. Saul was someone who could talk to anyone about anything, with a bright future ahead of him. But then came the hospitalizations. The disappearances. The debilitating episodes of depression. Growing up, both Nitsan and her sister had front-row seats to their father’s struggle with his bipolar disorder, and to the disease tearing their family apart.

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