Adam Gerhardstein

Adam Gerhardstein was diagnosed with bipolar disorder when he was twenty-one. Before then, as a college student, he started a nonprofit doing charitable work in Kenya. While living with bipolar disorder, he has gotten married, had a daughter, and has worked as a mental health worker, landscaper, lobbyist, organizer, civil rights attorney, Montessori teacher, and is currently a carpenter. He is from Cincinnati, Ohio, and currently resides in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he tries to spend as much time as possible in a canoe.

He is the author of I Hope I Get Well: A Memoir of Bipolar Disorder, which you can learn more about here. His article, A First Episode Standard for Involuntary Treatment, was published in the University of St. Thomas Law Journal. He also writes a creative nonfiction newsletter called “The LoveLetter from Adam Gerhardstein” that he mails (with stamps) around the world. 

He loves woodworking and tinkering, and has created many original Montessori works.

Buy his book, sign up for the LoveLetter, or inquire about a Montessori work.