Manic: A Memoir

Written by:
Terri Cheney
Narrated by:
Coleen Marlo

Unabridged Audiobook

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4
Narrator
Release Date
April 2018
Duration
6 hours 2 minutes
Summary
On the outside, Terri Cheney was a highly successful, attractive Beverly Hills entertainment lawyer. But behind her seemingly flawless facade lay a dangerous secret-for the better part of her life Cheney had been battling debilitating bipolar disorder and concealing a pharmacy's worth of prescriptions meant to stabilize her moods and make her 'normal.'

In bursts of prose that mirror the devastating highs and extreme lows of her illness, Cheney describes her roller-coaster life with shocking honesty-from glamorous parties to a night in jail; from flying fourteen kites off the edge of a cliff in a thunderstorm to crying beneath her office desk; from electroshock therapy to a suicide attempt fueled by tequila and prescription painkillers.

With Manic, Cheney gives voice to the unarticulated madness she endured. The clinical terms used to describe her illness were so inadequate that she chose to focus instead on her own experience, in her words, 'on what bipolar disorder felt like inside my own body.' Here the events unfold episodically, from mood to mood, the way she lived and remembers life. In this way the listener is able to viscerally experience the incredible speeding highs of mania and the crushing blows of depression, just as Cheney did.
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Morgan P.

I couldn’t stop listening!! The story is extremely well written and relatable. The description of being bipolar and the feelings that Terri experienced and then able to write in a memoir is remarkable!

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