Bedridden: A Novella
Can Breakdown Lead To… Breakthrough?
Fresh out of medical school and uncertain what to do next, Dr. Calvin Bloom decides to take a road trip and spend a year focusing on his writing. What he expects to be a liberating journey of self-discovery is instead overshadowed by a mysterious illness that threatens to break him both physically and mentally.
Feeling helpless and defeated, Calvin returns home to Boston to recover—only to discover that the botched adventure was not in vain. In the end, the breakdown leads to a breakthrough: a deeper understanding of himself and what he wants to do with his life.
Under the mentorship of a retired doctor, Calvin opens the Bloom Center, a mental health clinic in the woods of Concord, Massachusetts. But it’s his first patient, Kendall, who pushes him to begin Project Breakthrough—a revolutionary approach to healing that sparks radical personality changes. The therapy? Making people sick.