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Comment on Diagnosis by Alanis Morissette by Tracy Colvin
['Song Of The Week']
Comments for Mad In America
This week’s Song of the Week was recommended by MIA writer and contributor J.A.
Carter-Winward: “Back in the early 00s, I vaguely recall hearing that Ms. Morissette had bipolar disorder.
At the time, I was trying to embrace my own ill-fitting (and incorrect, it turns out) diagnosis.
“Call it what you want / ‘Cause I don’t even care anymore / Call it what you need to / To make yourself comfortable…”It’s a vulnerable song that speaks to the isolation that accompanies a diagnosis.
When I heard this song, I wanted to reach out to Alanis and ask her if she’d found that “glimpse of ease” she hadn’t felt in so long.