Madness A Bipolar Life

Name: Madness A Bipolar Life
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ISBN: 9780618754458

ISBN-10: 0618754458

ISBN-13: 9780618754458

Edition: 2008

Authors: Marya Hornbacher

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From the author of the best-selling Wasted, an astonishing dispatch from inside the belly of bipolar disease, reflecting major new insights When Marya Hornbacher published her first book, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia, she did not yet know the reason for her all-but-shattered young life. At age twenty-four, Hornbacher was diagnosed with Type 1 rapid-cycle bipolar, the most severe form of bipolar disease there is. In Madness, in her trademark wry and utterly self-revealing voice, Hornbacher tells her new story. Through scenes of astonishing visceral and emotional power, she takes us inside her own desperate attempts to control violently careening mood swings by self-starvation,…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 4/9/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Marya Hornbacher is an award-winning journalist and bestselling writer. Her books include the memoirs Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia, which has been published in twelve languages, and the New York Times bestseller Madness: A Bipolar Life; the recovery books Sane: Mental Illness, Addiction, and the Twelve Steps, and Waiting: A Nonbeliever's Higher Power; and the novel The Center of Winter. She teaches in the graduate creative writing program at Northwestern University and lives in Chicago.



Prologue: The Cut: November 5, 1994



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 45 1994


Full Onset: 1995



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



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



Fall 2006


Winter 2006


Spring 2007


Summer 2007


Epilogue


Bipolar Facts


My bipolar facts


Useful Websites


Useful Contacts


Research Resources


Bibliography


Acknowledgments