Manic: A Memoir - Softcover

"Filled with gorgeous writing...Echoes of William Styron abound."--Demitri F. Papolos. M.D. and Janice Papolos, authors of The Bipolar Child

"[a] gritty, vibrant, memoir brings this chaotic frenzy to life...through disaster and despair to end in hope. "--Peter C Whybrow MD author A Mood Apart

"Cheney...writes with passionate clarity about depression and the lure of suicide but with especially keen intensity about mania..."--Boston Globe

"[Manic is] more than a train-wreck tearjerker, the memoir draws strength from salient observations...startlingly lucid descriptions."--Publishers Weekly

"Cheney brilliantly brings us along on her haunting and riveting journey of bipolar disorder. ...MANIC is extremely powerful."--Andy Behrman, author of Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania

"Superb...Cheney's remarkable chronicle of her painful odyssey is as eloquent as it is brave. It is also profoundly necessary, both for her and for us."--Providence Journal

"This is a poignant and compelling memoir ...The writing is outstanding, the story is gripping."--Dr. Lori Altshuler, Director of the UCLA Mood Disorders Research Program

"Amazing and powerful...[MANIC] forces the reader into Cheney's bipolar world, into her deep and fearful depressions mixed with her giddy, high-flying manic moods."--Orange County Register

"Cheney's chilling account of her struggle with bipolar disorder brilliantly evokes the brutal nature of her disease...Edgy, dark and often cynical, MANIC is not an easy book to read, but it has heart and soul to spare."--People

"Written in episodic chapters that mimic the ups and downs of bipolar depression--hypomania, mania, depression--Cheney's book is a gut-churning ride."--Los Angeles Times

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.