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Madness: A Bipolar Life | 
 enlarge | Author: Marya Hornbacher
Creator: Tavia Gilbert
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 105127
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Unabridged
Number Of Items: 8
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Dimensions (in): 16.6 x 5.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 1433212374
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.8950092
EAN: 9781433212376
ASIN: 1433212374
Publication Date: April 9, 2008
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Product Description
When Marya Hornbacher published her acclaimed first book, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia, she did not yet have a piece of shattering knowledge: the underlying reason for her distress. At age 24, Hornbacher was diagnosed with Type I rapid-cyle bipolar, the most severe form of bipolar disease there is.In her trademark wry and utterly self-revealing voice, Hornbacher tells her new story in Madness. Through scenes of astonishing visceral and emotional power, she takes us inside her own desperate attempts to counteract violently careening mood swings by self-starvation, substance abuse, numbing sex, and self-mutilation. Her brave and heart-stopping memoir details her fight up from madness and describes what it is like to live in a difficult, sometimes beautiful life and marriage where the bipolar tendency always beckons.
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 Madness July 15, 2008
Marya Hornbacher's Madness is one of the most compelling books I have ever read. I do not often read nonfiction, but found myself at times forgetting that this was all true. Hornbacher has a gift with words and phrases and her writing is beautiful. At times, the story itself is disturbing, but for anyone who has lived with bipolar or someone who has it will love the book. It must have taken great courage to write a book that takes her own struggle with mental illness and use it to help others understand that they are not alone. Truly, it is one of the best books I have ever read and the single book that has most helped me understand this disease. After reading this one, I suggest you read The Center of Winter, also by Hornbacher.
From the Inside Looking Out July 7, 2008
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Having recently entered into the confusing world of having a child diagnosed with bi-polar, trying to tease out a distinction between mental illness and drug and alcohol addiction, watching different psychiatrists prescribe different medications, along with the child being a hostile patient, i.e. doesn't want to talk about what's going on---this book is a brilliant insight into what's going on inside a rapid cycle bi-polar head. I recognized some actions of my son throughout this book and finally got a sense of what it must be like inside his brain. This book gave me a new appreciation for the pain he is trying to hide or run away from. And also gave me insight into how I can better be there for him in his mental illness while not enabling his addictive behavior. This illness is not fun and there seems to be a lot of differences in how to treat it, especially as the field of study on bi-polar appears to be expanding and new treatments are on the rise but not consistently throughout the psychiatric profession.
Marya Hornbacher has done a great service for me by writing in such vivid prose her ongoing dilemma. Admittedly, my reading on bi-polar is not exhaustive, but this is the first book I've read that truly captured the tyranny of this illness. Ms. Hornbacher is a truly gifted writer. I do not envy her the ongoing struggle she faces, but she sure dug deep to write this. Throughout the the painful descriptions of behavior and feelings shines a courage that lifts my hopes for my own son.
 truthful but discouraging June 24, 2008
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I have a daughter who was diagnosed with early onset bipolar at age 11. She is now 22 with a 20 month old child and alcoholic (probably bipolar but won't seek help)husband. Marya's book was written with graphic discriptions of manic and depressive episodes. You can really feel her pain. This book should be great for someone who doesn't realize the trauma and pain that goes with this disorder. I was left with a sad, discouraged feeling. Although there are brief times of remission, I already felt that there is no way out of this nightmare. Maybe Marya meant the book to be that way as this is a serious illness with no cure just treatment sometimes effective and sometimes not.
Excellent June 18, 2008
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Excellent book. Riveting and exciting look at the life of a very manic bipolar woman. Easy to read but hard to put down.
Madness is very insightful June 16, 2008
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I have seen what Bipolar can do to people. This was really an eye opener.
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