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Author Hornbacher, Marya, 1974-

Title Madness : a bipolar life / Marya Hornbacher.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [2008]
©2008

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  616.895 HORNBACHER    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY HORNBACHER    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  616.89 HORNBACHER    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  616.895 H    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  616.895 HOR    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  616.895 HOR    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  B HORNBACHER, M.    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  B HORNBACHER    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Biographies  B HORNBACHER    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Bishop's Corner Branch - Non Fiction  616.895 HORNBACHER    Check Shelf

Description 299 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-298).
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.
Subject Hornbacher, Marya, 1974- -- Mental health.
People with bipolar disorder -- United States -- Biography.
Bipolar disorder.
ISBN 9780618754458
0618754458
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