Description: Terri Cheney exposes the helter-skelter reality of bipolar disorder in this intriguing memoir. As an L.A. lawyer, Cheney would oscillate between frantic energy and capricious promiscuity to the darkest pits of despair and lethargy. The b...
Synopsis Terri Cheney exposes the helter-skelter reality of bipolar disorder in this intriguing memoir. As an L.A. lawyer, Cheney would oscillate between frantic energy and capricious promiscuity to the darkest pits of despair and lethargy. The book is a wild ride that mirrors Cheney's own trip along the chemical rollercoaster of her brain.
Details
Publication Date:
2009-02-01
Edition Description:
Reprint
Size
Length:
245 pages
Height:
8.0 in
Width:
5.3 in
Thickness:
0.5 in
Weight:
7.2 oz
Publisher's Note An updated personal account of life with bipolar disorder documents the author's experience with the condition's extreme highs and lows, which had her paralyzed with depression one day and recklessly skirting death the next, in an intimate memoir that also traces her therapies and the disease's impact on her relationships. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.