Bipolar disorder and depression and suicide

Bipolar disorder and depression and suicide So while Next to Normal is not the first to embrace this notion, it’s power lies in it’s rock and roll approach to a traditionally upper middle class, mainstream answer, psychotherapy and medication and electroshock therapy. It’s faces, no, confronts, a taboo subject head on and just a little bit of sugar makes the medicine go down.

Interestingly, the audience at the glass beaded and chandeliered theater look mostly white, middle-aged, equally male and female. Some men wore suits as if they arrived after work. Many bald heads and glasses.

The musical expands for two hours on the subject of suffering, opening a Pandora’s Music Box filled with guilt, grief, long-suffering love and self-sacrifice, bipolar disorder and depression and suicide.