Words on Bathroom Walls was written by Julia Walton and later made into a major motion picture. Walton talks to herself a lot, lives in Huntington Beach, California, is happily married, and has two daughters. Words on Bathroom Walls takes place during Adam Petrazelli’s junior year in high school, around plenty of new people that he doesn’t know a thing about, where he can hide his illness. Adam was diagnosed with schizophrenia and takes a daily dose of ToZaPrex. When Adam goes to a new school called St. Agatha’s, he is assigned an ambassador to show him around. The ambassador ditches him, and then he runs into Maya Salvador. Adam makes two new friends, Dwight Olberman and Maya; meanwhile, his enemy is Ian Stone, the ambassador he was assigned …show more content…
Around Christmas, Adam’s mother announces she's pregnant, and then after the holidays, Adam learns about a school shooting in Connecticut. The shooter also had a mental illness, and the students at Adam’s school were saying rude things about it, which assured that Adam wanted to keep his secret. Then, in March, Adam’s body showed signs of him rejecting ToZaPrex. His drug dosage gradually decreased, which caused him to experience horrifying hallucinations again. He realized that he was struggling to keep his schizophrenia a secret. At a school assembly, Adam’s hallucinations are so bad that he has to forcefully remove himself and go to the bathroom, where he has a breakdown. Ian manages to get a video of his outburst. Finally, Adam takes several ToZaPrex pills so he can go to prom with Maya. During the slow dance, Ian replaces the strobe lights with the video of Adam’s outburst in the restroom. Adam runs away and lands in the hospital, where he stops taking ToZaPrex completely. He tries to call things off with Maya, but she promises that she'll help him figure things