Breaking Even is a memoir dedicated to my late mother and the struggles she went through with an undiagnosed mental illness. This is a memoir regarding the life of a very heavily medicated bipolar girl being raised by a broken, heavily, self-medicated mother and the struggles they went through. A story about the unbreakable bond between mother and daughter even in death and just how similar the two women are throughout all stages of their lives. Breaking the family ties and family lies of trauma.