Mapping bipolar worlds: Lived geographies of 'madness' in autobiographical accounts

► Altered ways of being in place that bipolar 'madness' entails. ► Living with bipolar is paradoxically (dis)embodied. ► 'Whole' and 'fractured' senses of self and ways of relating to people and places. ► Bipolar ways of being in place involve 'straddling' real and delusional worlds. ► Prospective ways of assigning meaning to places where 'madness' is lived.