Marya Hornbacher
Hardcover | Pages: 299 pages Rating: 4.03 | 11644 Users | 753 Reviews
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| Title | : | Madness: A Bipolar Life |
| Author | : | Marya Hornbacher |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 299 pages |
| Published | : | April 9th 2008 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (first published 2008) |
| Categories | : | Autobiography. Memoir. Nonfiction. Psychology. Health. Mental Health. Mental Illness |
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An astonishing dispatch from inside the belly of bipolar disorder, reflecting major new insights When Marya Hornbacher published her first book, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia, she did not yet have the piece of shattering knowledge that would finally make sense of the chaos of her life. At age twenty-four, Hornbacher was diagnosed with Type I rapid-cycle bipolar, the most severe form of bipolar disorder. 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 counteract 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 -- where bipolar always beckons -- is at the center of this brave and heart-stopping memoir. Madness delivers the revelation that Hornbacher is not alone: millions of people in America today are struggling with a variety of disorders that may disguise their bipolar disease. And Hornbacher's fiercely self-aware portrait of her own bipolar as early as age four will powerfully change, too, the current debate on whether bipolar in children actually exists. Ten years after Kay Redfield Jamison's An Unquiet Mind, this storm of a memoir will revolutionize our understanding of bipolar disorder.Describe Books Conducive To Madness: A Bipolar Life
| Original Title: | Madness: A Bipolar Life |
| ISBN: | 0618754458 (ISBN13: 9780618754458) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 4.03 From 11644 Users | 753 ReviewsAppraise Out Of Books Madness: A Bipolar Life
Madness is such a powerful book. There were many times when I had to lay the book down for a moment, just because it was so strong. Marya Hornbacher has no self-pity at all, a thing that can be annoying when you're reading memoirs about mental illness and sometimes she even made me laugh, just because the situation was described so funny, even though it was a horrible one. I'm wondering how things are going with her now - she truly deserves a great life.3.5/5 stars Hornbacher bears her soul on these pages. She talks about her madness with unflinching honesty and bravado. This book gave me a true insight into the mind of someone who copes with Type I rapid-cycle bipolar disorder. Throughout her life, she is forced to keep some pretty painful skeletons in her closet. She develops an eating disorder, which mental healthcare professionals assume stems from depression. But for Hornbacher, her eating disorder was a way to have some control over her
This is the first time that I read about someone with manicdepressive disorder (/ bipolar disorder) and it certainly opened my eyes. In Madness, the author details her journey of living with the illness, from her emotionally unstable childhood to the diagnosis of her illness and finally to her acceptance of the fact that the illness will stay with her for her whole life.It gets very repetitive in the process as she went back and forth in the progress of controlling her disorder, her experiencing
From the time she was a little girl, Marya always felt different from the other children around her and from her parents as well. A little "crazy" as her friends from school would call her. As she grows up though and spends her life in and out of mental institutions, with different husbands and psychiatrists and moving back and forth from Minneapolis to California constantly, it becomes apparent that something serious is going on. To get her life back in order is difficult, but she's determined
At the age of 24, Marya Hornbacher was diagnosed with Type I bipolar disorder. This realization of why she thinks and behaves the way she does did not come at the outset of her disease. Rather, it came after years and years of cycling through incessant mania and debilitating depression. Hornbacher recalls moments from her childhood, such as her terrible insomnia and inability to stop jabbering flying from topic to topic with no coherent train of thought. She tried to poke fun at herself as all
After a recent diagnosis that directly relates to the content of this book; I decided to pick it up again. Maybe I was more engaged because it is more relevant to me, whatever the reason I could not put it down. Marya offers a very honest, un sugarcoated look at her life with Bipolar Disorder. And she really captures what it is like to be manic, AND how debilitating the inevitable depression is. I saw a lot of my own symptoms in her experiences. That was comforting, because it made me realize
What needs to be said about Marya, is that she suffers from one of the most severe cases of Bipolar disorder, type 1 (which includes full on mania and psychosis that can last for years untreated), with rapid cycling. It's not like Bipolar II where you experience hypomania and depression (where the depression can be more in play than hypomania). She suffered wild psychosis and mania for a long time, and addiction is a big part of people diagnosed with Bipolar. I understand that this is a memoir,
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