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Manic | Terri Cheney
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An attractive, highly successful Beverly Hills entertainment lawyer, Terri Cheney had been battling debilitating bipolar disorder for the better part of her lifeand concealing a pharmacys worth of prescription drugs meant to stabilize her moods and make her "normal." In explosive bursts of prose that mirror the devastating mania and extreme despair of her illness, Cheney describes her roller-coaster existence with shocking honesty, giving brilliant voice to the previously unarticulated madness she endured. Brave, electrifying, poignant, and disturbing, Manic does not simply explain bipolar disorderit takes us into its grasp and does not let go.
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IndianBookworm
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It's a funny story how I got into this book. I really enjoyed the Amazon show 'Modern love', through that I got to know about the podcast, then the episode by Terri and then finally her book. Bipolar disorder has interested me for various reasons and honestly it's a really good account of her experience. A vivid and overwhelming account of something that is so common yet unknown to people.

As for the book, I definitely liked it.
4/5🌟

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peaKnit
Manic | Terri Cheney
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#manicmonday #letterY @CBee - Thank you for the tag!
📕 Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes
✍️ Yeats
🎥 Yes Man
🎤 The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
🎶 Yesterday

All please come play! 🎵 🎶

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peaKnit
Manic | Terri Cheney
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#manicmonday @CBee #theletterw
📚 Where the Wild Things Are
✍️ William Kent Krueger
🎥 The Wilderpeople - I recommend this sleeper!
🎤 Weezer, White Lion, John Waite
🎶 What‘s Love Got to do With It, Wait by White Lion saw live in 1988

readingjedi I love Wait, will be singing it for days now! 2y
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peaKnit
Manic | Terri Cheney
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📚 New Moon, Nightshift
✍️ Nancy Drew
🎥 Night at the Museum, Nanny McPhee, two favorites when my kids were small
🎸 Nine Inch Nails - Trent Reznor is my birthday Buddy.
🎵 Nasty, New Moon on Monday, Never Gonna Give you Up (80‘s girl here!)
#manicmonday #lettern @CBee

CBee I‘ve been Rick-rolled twice now 😂😂😂 2y
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EvieBee
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“How could I ever hope to tell a normal person about the terrors of being happy? Unless there was a damned good reason for it…happiness wasn‘t a safe harbor for me. It was just another checkpoint on the road to mania.”

This memoir was compellingly profound. I have loved ones and close friends that have bipolar disorder, and I don‘t know nearly as much as I imagined I did about what life is like for them on a daily basis.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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EvieBee
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I started listening to this audiobook last night when I learned that Anne Hathaway was portraying the author in Amazon‘s series Modern Love. This is compelling! I came to the library for a physical copy to read when I can‘t listen and for her sequel, THE DARK SIDE OF INNOCENCE.
#currentlyreading #mentalillness

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BekaReid
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Really appreciated this book and thought the non-linear format added to Terri Cheney's story.

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bhhm24
Manic | Terri Cheney
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Very relatable and real. Well written. Enjoyed it cover to cover.

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azulaco
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I reread this one today quickly before shipping it out on a Paperbackswap trade. It was better than I remembered. I upgraded my previous Goodreads rating to 3 stars, but would give 3 and a half if I could. Quick read, interesting subject matter, and I thought it was pretty well-written.

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vandeblogger
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Quick, interesting read. I always think it's so much more informative to hear someone describe an experience (like being in a manic state) than just reading/hearing the symptoms of such.

Trigger warning: she covers her experiences both with rape and suicide attempts.

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vandeblogger
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Up next.

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