Bibliograph

Madness, a bipolar life, Marya Hornbacher

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Madness, a bipolar life, Marya Hornbacher

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Madness

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

261174823

Responsibility statement

Marya Hornbacher

Sub title

a bipolar life

Summary

When Marya Hornbacher published her first book, Wasted, she did not yet know the reason for her all-but-shattered young life. At age 24, Hornbacher was diagnosed with Type 1 rapid-cycle bipolar, the most severe form of bipolar disease there is. Here, in her trademark wry, self-revealing voice, Hornbacher tells her new story. She takes us inside her own desperate attempts to control violently careening mood swings by self-starvation, substance abuse, numbing sex, and self-mutilation. How Hornbacher fights her way up from a madness that all but destroys her, and what it is like to live in a difficult and sometimes beautiful life and marriage, is at the heart of this brave memoir. Millions of people in America struggle with a variety of disorders that may mask their true diagnosis of bipolar; also, Hornbacher's portrait of her own bipolar as early as age four will change the current debate on whether bipolar exists in children

Table Of Contents

Prologue: The cut: November 5, 1994 -- PART I -- The goatman: 1978 -- What they know: 1979 -- Depression: 1981 -- Prayer: 1983 -- Food: 1984 -- The booze under the stove: 1985 -- Meltdown: 1988 -- Escapes: Michigan, 1989 -- Minneapolis: 1990 -- California: 1990 -- Minneapolis: 1991 -- Washington, D.C.: 1992 -- 1993 -- 1994 -- Full onset: 1995 -- PART II -- The new life: 1996 -- The diagnosis: April 1997 -- The break: July 1997, nine a.m. -- Unit 47: same day -- Tour: January 1998 -- Hypomania: July 1998 -- Jeremy: later that summer -- Therapy: 1999 -- Losing it: winter 1999 -- Crazy Sean: June 2000 -- Oregon: August 2000 -- Day treatment: late August 2000 -- Attic, basement: fall 2000 -- Valentine's Day: 2001 -- Coming to life: summer 2001 -- Jeff: fall 2001 -- The good life: summer 2002 -- The magazine: November 2002 -- Fall 2003 -- PART III -- The missing years -- Hospitalization #1: January 2004 -- Hospitalization #2: April 2004 -- Hospitalization #3: July 2004 -- Hospitalization #4: October 2004 -- Hospitalization #5: January 2005 -- Hospitalization #6: April 2005 -- Hospitalization #7: July 2005 -- Release: August 2005 -- PART IV -- Fall 2006 -- Winter 2006 -- Spring 2007 -- Summer 2007 -- Epilogue -- Bipolar facts [My bipolar facts] -- Useful websites -- Useful contacts

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