The Dark Side of Innocence: Growing Up Bipolar

The Dark Side of Innocence: Growing Up Bipolar

â€œKilling yourself at any age is a seriously tricky business. But when I was seven, the odds felt insurmountable.â€

As a young girl, Terri Cheneyâ€™s life looked perfect. Her family lived in a lovely house in a tranquil Los Angeles suburb where the geraniums never once failed to bloom. She was pretty and smart, an academic superstar and popular cheerleader whose father doted on her. But starting with her first suicide attempt at age seven, it was clear that her inner world was anything but perfect.

â€œThereâ€™s something wrong with her,â€ her mother would whisper, her voice quivering on the edge of despair. And indeed there was, although no one had a name for it yet. Hostage to her roller-coaster moods, Terri veered from easy A-pluses to total paralysis, from bouts of obsessive hypersexuality to episodes of alcoholic abandon that nearly cost her her life. Throughout Terriâ€™s chaotic early years, nothing was certain from day to day except this: whatever was so deeply wrong with her must be kept a secret.

Thirty years later, Terri wrote Manic, a harrowing memoir that revealed her adult struggle with bipolar disorder. It became an instant New York Times bestseller and received passionate critical acclaim. But it didnâ€™t tell the whole story. The mystery of Terriâ€™s childhood remained untouchedâ€” too troubling, too painful to fathom. The Dark Side of Innocence explores those tumultuous formative years, finally shattering Terriâ€™s well-guarded secret. With vivid intensity, it blends a pitch-perfect childlike voice with keen adult observation. The Dark Side of Innocence provides a heart-rending, groundbreaking insiderâ€™s look into the fascinating and frightening world of childhood bipolar disorder, an illness that affects a staggering one million children. This poignant and compelling story of Terriâ€™s journey from disaster and despair to hope and survival will serve as an informative and eye-opening tale for those who would trust a flawless facade.

Country	USA
Author	Terri Cheney
Binding	Hardcover
EAN	9781439176214
ISBN	1439176213
Label	Atria Books
Manufacturer	Atria Books
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	288
PublicationDate	2011-03-01
Publisher	Atria Books
ReleaseDate	2011-03-01
Studio	Atria Books

The Dark Side of Innocence: Growing Up Bipolar

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