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As a PhD student at Stanford University in 2017, Zachary Burton was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. After hearing the news, he immediately struggled with overcoming his own preconceived notions about the condition, and what living with it would mean.
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“It was a huge reckoning for numerous reasons,” he tells
Fast Company. “Part of it was simply just that label—like, wow, I’m like this crazy person now. This can’t be true.”
To help reduce the stigma around mental illness for himself and others, Burton turned to live theater. He and fellow Stanford alumnus Elisa Hofmeister created a show called