The Dark Side of Innocence: Growing Up Bipolar
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Now in paperback from the New York Times bestselling author of Manic--a gripping and eloquent account of the unfolding of her debilitating bipolar disorder during her childhood. The New York Times bestselling author blends a pitch-perfect childlike voice with keen adult observation as she shares her heartrending, groundbreaking insider's look into the fascinating and frightening world of childhood bipolar disorder. Starting with her first suicide attempt at age seven, Terri Cheney was held hostage by her roller-coaster moods, veering from easy A-pluses to total paralysis, from bouts of obsessive hypersexuality to episodes of alcoholic abandon that nearly cost her her life. On the outside, her world appeared perfect. She was pretty and smart, an academic superstar and popular cheerleader. Yet her inner world was chaos, a well-guarded secret too troubling, too painful to fathom even thirty years later in her bestselling memoir, Manic, which was lauded as "chilling" and "brilliant" by People. In The Dark Side of Innocence, her eye-opening follow-up, Terri shares her poignant and compelling journey from a childhood of disaster and despair to hope and survival, an informative first-person account of a dark beast that preys on a staggering one million children.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1439176248
ISBN13:9781439176245
Release Date:March 2012
Publisher:Atria Books
Length:288 Pages
Weight:0.59 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.4" x 8.0"
Customer Reviews
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great book
Published by AnnaMaria , 3 years ago
love this read! just ordered her other book manic! i got this one for school and ended up real king like it!
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