Terri Cheney Manic
One day in 1992, Terri Cheney, a high-powered attorney to the stars, slipped on a white silk shirt with French cuffs. The blouse was a strategic choice. One day in 1992, Terri Cheney, a high-powered attorney to the stars, slipped on a white silk shirt with French cuffs. The blouse was a strategic choice.
If you’re wondering what mania, hypomania, or a mixed state feels like to a person with bipolar disorder, you’ll get your chance to find out when Manic: A Memoir by Terri Cheney hits the bookstores on February 5, 2008. Can you download ie on a mac. I have read a couple other personal accounts of what living with bipolar disorder is like, and I think Manic captures it best.
Cheney’s description of her fascination with fire made me recall the night when my wife, Cecie, surrounded herself with about 50 candles on our back porch and stayed up until sunrise listening to music… and rummaging through the cabinets in a frantic search for more candles. And a winter night when she danced around the campfire alone at her parents’ cabin drinking wine until she finally stumbled into the flames and had to roll around on the ground to make sure she wasn’t on fire… while I was passed out in bed, exhausted from her high energy bacchanal and my own heavy dose of alcohol.
And those were the “fun” times, the hypomanic states, when Cecie was sharper, funnier, more entertaining, and more seductive than usual. Cheney does an excellent job of describing the allure of hypomania, for both herself and the people around her who are drawn to the passion and excitement. With hypomania, you become the life of the party, but as Cheney points out, the line between life of the party and scary is hair thin. Her descriptions of how she feels when hypomanic prove just how difficult it must be for someone who experiences the highs to feel normal, average, and ultimately boring—and how difficult it must be for them to be around “boring” people, like the rest of us.
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Cheney also touches on mixed states, which can be the most painful and dangerous—when mania and depression merge. Mixed states are what I personally find most difficult to deal with as a loved one—when I can do nothing to please the person I love, and when everything I say or do comes under attack. These are the times when everyone in my family is at one another’s throats. It’s as if the bipolar beast has taken over the communal soul for its own entertainment. As Cheney reveals, however, these mixed states are no party for the person who’s experiencing them either. These are the episodes that make people suicidal, homicidal, or just plain infuriated.
Manic Call of duty modern warfare mac download free. full version. is a must read for anyone who has bipolar disorder or has a loved one with bipolar disorder. It’s as close as you can get to experiencing mania yourself. By being brave enough to simply tell her story and describe her feelings and observations, Cheney will do more than most in building understanding and acceptance of bipolar disorder and the people who have been blessed, cursed, and labeled “bipolar.”
Download diablo iii mac. To find out more about the book and about Terri Cheney, visit her Web site at TerriCheney.com or order the book online at Amazon.com.
Cheney, a former L.A. entertainment lawyer, pointedly dispels expectations of a “safe ride” through this turbulent account of bipolar disorder. With evocative imagery—time-shuffled recollections meant to mirror her disorienting extremes of mood—Cheney conjures life at the mercy of a brain chemistry that yanks her from “soul-starving” despair to raucous exuberance, impetuous pursuits to paralyzing lethargy. Caught in a riptide of febrile impulse, she caroms from seductions to suicide attempts while flirting recklessly with men, danger and death, only to find more hazards in the drastic side effects of treatment. More than a train-wreck tearjerker, the memoir draws strength from salient observations that expose the frustrations of bipolar disorder, from its brutal sabotage of romance and friendship to the challenge it poses to the simplest emotions, such as “the terrors of being happy” that augur mania's onset. Though she sustains an ominous mood and relays horrifying incidents with icy candor, Cheney lightens up at times, as when she marvels at the ease of masking her condition at an office that brings out everyone's manic side. But the narrative hopscotch frustrates readers' need for grounding and context that might clear up Cheney's muddled history and satisfy readers' urge to learn the fallout of her impulse-driven episodes. Her startlingly lucid descriptions of illness merit a more concise chronology. (Feb.)
Release date: 02/01/2008
Genre: Nonfiction
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