false 2359423 3 <b>"I didn't tell anyone that I was going to Santa Fe to kill myself."</b> On the outside, Terri Cheney was a highly successful, attractive Beverly Hills entertainment lawyer. But behind her seemingly flawless façade lay a dangerous secret - for the better part of her life Cheney had been battling debilitating bipolar disorder and concealing a pharmacy's worth of prescriptions meant to stabilize her moods and make her "normal." In bursts of prose that mirror the devastating highs and extreme lows of her illness, Cheney describes her roller-coaster life with shocking honesty - from glamorous parties to a night in jail; from flying fourteen kites off the edge of a cliff in a thunderstorm to crying beneath her office desk; from electroshock therapy to a suicide attempt fueled by tequila and prescription painkillers. With <i>Manic</i>, Cheney gives voice to the unarticulated madness she endured. The clinical terms used to describe her illness were so inadequate that she chose to focus instead on her own experience, in her words, "on what bipolar disorder felt like inside my own body." Here the events unfold episodically, from mood to mood, the way she lived and remembers life. In this way the reader is able to viscerally experience the incredible speeding highs of mania and the crushing blows of depression, just as Cheney did. Manic does not simply explain bipolar disorder - it takes us in its grasp and does not let go. In the tradition of <i>Darkness Visible</i> and <i>An Unquiet Mind</i>, <i>Manic</i> is <i>Girl, Interrupted</i> with the girl all grown up. This harrowing yet hopeful book is more than just a searing insider's account of what it's really like to live with bipolar disorder. It is a testament to the sharp beauty of a life lived in extremes. 2366190 1 2 2008 Manic: A Memoir total:624|5:101|4:187|3:241|2:82|1:13| 624 2153 1241 143 5 4 false false Sat Feb 23 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 24 18:32:29 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 24 18:35:02 -0800 2008
Amazing. I was practically out of breath, fatigued, all by this woman's words describing her life. I can't eve...more...]]> 5 2 true false Wed Feb 27 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 04 07:20:59 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 04 07:26:02 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Oct 11 07:11:15 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 11 07:27:33 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 26 10:34:23 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 17 06:11:40 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Oct 19 11:31:11 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 12:50:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Tue Jul 28 07:28:40 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 08:25:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 06 20:04:17 -0700 2009 Wed May 06 20:27:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jun 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 10:18:44 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 20:34:21 -0700 2009 1 Terri Cheney takes what you already know about manic depression and pulls you into the reality of it.

It is a vivid, beautiful, painful tale of one woman's attempts to both fight her insanity and fi...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Mar 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 17 11:13:50 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 10:27:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Apr 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 29 12:04:48 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 29 12:07:31 -0700 2008 4 1 false false Mon Feb 04 14:15:30 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 04 14:12:32 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 04 14:13:38 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Mon Jul 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 11:54:33 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 23:06:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Jun 09 07:39:06 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 07:39:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jul 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 05:22:32 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 11 16:11:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 1 false false Tue Feb 26 07:59:00 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 26 07:59:14 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Wed Jan 23 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 30 07:52:52 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 30 07:56:56 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 04:01:15 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 04:11:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 07 07:51:13 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 07 07:53:33 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Aug 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 31 09:23:31 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 11 09:47:32 -0700 2009 Terri Cheney seems to want the reader to know that she is beautiful. Her red hair ...more...]]> 0 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 07:22:41 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 07:19:18 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2359423