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 enlarge | Author: Terri Cheney
Publisher: William Morrow
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  56 reviews
Sales Rank: 2391
Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.7 x 1.5
ISBN: 0061430234
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.8950092
EAN: 9780061430237
ASIN: 0061430234
Publication Date: February 1, 2008
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Devastating insights on bipolar disorder June 20, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I was not aware of this book, but a friend of mine read it and recommended it highly to me , and that was good enough reason for me to pick this up. I would not be disappointed.
In "Manic: A Memoir" (246 pages), author Terri Cheney brings the vivid tale of what it's like to live with bipolar disorder, the highs of mania and the lows of depression all compressed in one body and person. It is simply astonishing what the author goes through, all the while holding down what appears to be a very successful legal career for a number of years. The author struggles with various medications and treatments (and that's putting it mildly). Towards the end of the book, through trial and error, she comes to the conclusion that what was wrong with her was "a strange place on the bipolar spectrum called mixed state. It's the most dangerous condition possible, the one in which the most suicides occur".
From what I can make out, the author (who appears to be in her early 40s now) has found some middle ground, although I imagine that it is not possible to be ever completely cured from bipolar disorder. In all, this is a fantastic book, which you cannot put down once you are reading it. Be aware that there are several pretty graphic scenes in the book, even if they are described tastefully by the author.
 The Journey June 4, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
In reading this memoir I saw a lot of my wife in the pages of torment and in the roller coaster ride of mania and depression. My wife committed suicide in 2006 and Terri Cheney offers loved ones and other lay persons an insight into the mind of a person suffering from bi-polar disease.
Thanks Terri.
AMAZING! June 3, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
I must admit I bought this book because it is yet another one on Bipolar. As a mother of a Bipolar daughter I find myself eager for other's stories. But this book is not just another Bipolar Memior. It is an amazing novel! The novel does not follow your traditonal chronological order, the author tells you that from the start. Yet I never felt lost instead it completly fit what was being said. There are some amazing stores as well as many that would leave many with no exposure to this frightning and exotic world in bafflement. Ironically through the talk of pain, suicide, and mania I was left with a sort of hope for my own daughter. Cheney is an amazing writer, not just an amazing Bipolar writer. I was left wanting to know more and I hope that more will be said.
For anyone trying to understand what it's like June 1, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book is an exceptionally accurate and explicit description of the horrors of living with this disease, and required reading for anyone trying to understand why their friend or loved one behaves so eratically, so self-destructively, so cruelly, and why they don't just "cheer up" and look at the bright side. The only thing obviously missing from Cheney's perspective is the financial burden on those less affluent, and the barrier to treatment that comes with it. While drugs are not THE cure, they certainly help, and access to both qualified doctors and appropriate brand-name only medications is often denied to all but the top tier of our society.
 Beverly Hills' Disease of the Week- May 31, 2008
5 out of 11 found this review helpful
Meet Terri Chaney-Beverly Hills lawyer-Manic but oh so chic. She describes in little scenes all her manic "adventures". It's an extremely self serving-self promoting-oh poor me-I'm so pathetic tale-but I'm a totally chic lawyer in Beverly Hills. I couldn't even finish it. Yick. Terri's just looking for a captive audience to hear herself speak. I had not the slightest bit of sympathy for her. Oh did I mention Beverly Hills? Over and over...yes we get it Terri...you're chic lawyer in Beverly Hills...with a "problem". Yawn....
Don't bother to read. P. U.
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