Melody Moezzi is an Iranian-American writer, attorney, speaker, activist, UN Global Expert, and an award-winning author. Her latest book, Haldol and Hyacinths: A Bipolar Life, was released...

Sure, there are far more devastating fates, but at the time, I was certain there was nothing worse than enduring the seventh grade as a staggeringly skinny, flat-chested brown girl in Ohio,...