Manic book review
MANIC | Kirkus Reviews
by Glennon Doyle ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 10, 2020
More life reflections from the bestselling author on themes of societal captivity and the catharsis of personal freedom.
In her third book, Doyle (Love Warrior, 2016, etc.) begins with a life-changing event. “Four years ago,” she writes, “married to the father of my three children, I fell in love with a woman.” That woman, Abby Wambach, would become her wife. Emblematically arranged into three sections—“Caged,” “Keys,” “Freedom”—the narrative offers, among other elements, vignettes about the soulful author’s girlhood, when she was bulimic and felt like a zoo animal, a “caged girl made for wide-open skies.” She followed the path that seemed right and appropriate based on her Catholic upbringing and adolescent conditioning.
After a downward spiral into “drinking, drugging, and purging,” Doyle found sobriety and the authentic self she’d been suppressing. Still, there was trouble: Straining an already troubled marriage was her husband’s infidelity, which eventually led to life-altering choices and the discovery of a love she’d never experienced before. Throughout the book, Doyle remains open and candid, whether she’s admitting to rigging a high school homecoming court election or denouncing the doting perfectionism of “cream cheese parenting,” which is about “giving your children the best of everything.” The author’s fears and concerns are often mirrored by real-world issues: gender roles and bias, white privilege, racism, and religion-fueled homophobia and hypocrisy. Some stories merely skim the surface of larger issues, but Doyle revisits them in later sections and digs deeper, using friends and familial references to personify their impact on her life, both past and present. Shorter pieces, some only a page in length, manage to effectively translate an emotional gut punch, as when Doyle’s therapist called her blooming extramarital lesbian love a “dangerous distraction.
” Ultimately, the narrative is an in-depth look at a courageous woman eager to share the wealth of her experiences by embracing vulnerability and reclaiming her inner strength and resiliency.
Doyle offers another lucid, inspiring chronicle of female empowerment and the rewards of self-awareness and renewal.
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Pub Date: March 10, 2020
ISBN: 978-1-9848-0125-8
Page Count: 352
Publisher: Dial Books
Review Posted Online: Dec.
22, 2019
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 15, 2020
Categories: GENERAL BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR | BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR | SELF-HELP
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‘Manic’ author Terri Cheney illuminates a life of sky highs and rock-bottom lows – Daily Bulletin
The first chapter of her memoir “Manic” finds Terri Cheney driving to Santa Fe, N.
M., with the intention of taking her life on Christmas Eve. A break-in, a rape and a suicide attempt follow before the chapter reaches its conclusion.
The author, a former entertainment attorney who was diagnosed with manic depression in 1994, says she enjoys reading from this chapter during promotional appearances.
“I think it wakes people up,” says Cheney, whose book just hit No. 10 on The New York Times best-seller list. “I don’t know if people like it, but they’re certainly awake. The other chapter I read is what I call the ‘kite episode’ where I fly 14 kites off a cliff during a thunderstorm in Big Sur. To me that is just emblematic of mania.”
Although “Manic” touches on the colorful side of mania, the author knows too well that the illness is serious business. According to the National Institutes of Mental Health, more than 5.7 million adult Americans have manic depression (also known as bipolar disorder), a brain disorder that causes extreme shifts in a person’s mood, energy level and ability to function.
Cheney, who controls her illness with medication, runs a support group through UCLA for patients with manic depression and secondary diagnoses. She also has written a novel about a bipolar attorney in the 1980s who isn’t aware she has the disease.
While being treated for depression in the late 1990s, Cheney met a fellow patient who experienced great frustration over being unable to put what she was feeling into words.
Feeling a kinship over being “locked inside the disease without being able to talk about it,” Cheney boned up on bipolar disorder, looking to write a clinical account of the condition. Eventually, she decided she was more interested in telling her own story.
“I wanted the immediacy I felt in my body to be understood and appreciated,” Cheney says, “and I thought there was a need for it.” The memoir’s success has been gratifying, and Cheney says there has been talk about turning “Manic” into a film. Even in good times, Cheney says, she must constantly monitor her emotions to make sure they aren’t getting too extreme in any direction.
“It’s rather exhausting in addition to being scary,” she says. “But I have some years under my belt of being relatively sane, sober and stable, so I’m not as frightened as I used to be.”
The book paints a very different picture. Chronicling arrests, electroshock therapy sessions and a stint in a mental institution, Cheney’s journey grows progressively darker and more graphic. Given her former lifestyle and numerous suicide attempts, Cheney places the odds against her survival at 100 to 1.
“There was one attempt in particular where there’s simply no reason why I should have survived,” she says. “There’s no reason on Earth how somebody could take that many pills and black out for days. To do that to your body and mind time and again, it just makes me think there has to be a reason I’m still alive. It can’t be coincidence.”
Even after disclosing her illness, the author, whose clients once included Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones, says she has not found herself treated differently since the memoir’s publication.
“Surprisingly, people treated me like I was fragile before the book,” says Cheney. “I’m actually rather surprised. I’m doing a lot of publicity, and my e-mail doesn’t stop pinging. It’s a lot of attention, and I keep thinking, ‘Don’t these people know I’m manic depressive?’ I can’t believe they’re trusting me with all this.”
Trusting her with …?
“Schedules, interviews, appearances,” returns Cheney. “It’s like I’m being treated as a normal person, and it’s been awhile since I’ve been treated as a normal person.”
According to mental health experts, that’s the ironic feature of an illness such as manic depression: Its symptoms seem so normal, particularly in a city such as L.A., where every third person – some quite famous – seems to be as “wired” as you.
“There are those people, especially in the L.A. area, who tend to romanticize the disorder,” says Dr. Lori Altshuler, Julia S. Gouw professor of psychiatry at UCLA and director of the university’s mood disorders research program.
“People who might have ups and downs, we say, ‘Oh, you’re acting bipolar’ or, ‘You’re manic-y.’
“The highs can be so euphoric, and the lows can be so devastatingly low,” Altshuler adds. “These are not just normal mood swings. Really, it doesn’t do justice to how (serious) this disorder is.”
Actresses Brooke Shields, Patty Duke and Carrie Fisher have all been public about their struggles with different types of depression.
In recent months, the erratic behavior of celebrities such as Britney Spears has given armchair psychologists all the evidence they need to dismiss the troubled pop star as being bipolar or possibly a victim of post-partum depression.
Spears has not been diagnosed, and Cheney cautions against putting the wrong face on the condition based on Spears’ behavior. “With Britney Spears, the way she’s being portrayed as not caring is troublesome to me,” says Cheney. “When you’re in the disease, there’s nothing volitional about it. You are absolutely taken over by forces you can’t control.
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While there is not yet hard data to support the claim, Altshuler believes that manic depression tends to occur more frequently in actors and musicians.
“We don’t know if there’s something about the creativity gene. Bipolar people may be attracted to more artsy lifestyles,” says Altshuler. “In this town, people stay up all night and they think it’s great that they have more energy for more erratic lifestyles.” Individuals who don’t know they’re bipolar can frequently turn to drugs and alcohol as a means of self-medicating.
“Then they have other problems,” says Altshuler, “and that’s what gets the attention.” Cheney’s support group works with these dual-diagnosis patients. The author divides her time between “Manic”-related promotional duties, her UCLA group and meeting with a writers group. Her next project likely will touch on the disease once again.
“It seems to be what interests me,” she says, “and you need to write about what interests you.”
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Most manic states in affective psychoses, like depression, are atypical. One of the variants of atypical manias are manic states, referred to as "mania without mania" (by analogy with the term "depression without depression", according to R. Priori, 1969), observed in approximately 10% of cases. They were first described by M.A. Morozova (1989). The leading symptom in the mental state of patients in these cases is motor excitation, which is not accompanied by an increase in the rate of ideational reactions. With a preserved ability to concentrate, the productivity of thinking, on the contrary, decreases. Patients in the presence of such mania are mobile, talkative, gesticulate a lot, easily establish contacts. Increased activity characteristic of manic patients is characterized by monotony and low productivity, but with an overvalued attitude to activity.
Atypical in these cases is the actual manic affect. It is lustrous. The feeling of completeness of physical well-being and comfort, characteristic of mania, is not combined with a feeling of joy and fun, but, on the contrary, is accompanied by irritability or anger. The tendency to overestimate the possibilities of one's own personality in these cases does not go beyond the exaggeration of actual events. Violations of somatovegetative functions are insignificant and are expressed mainly in violation of sleep and appetite. The duration of such a manic state can reach 1 year. nine0005
Most often, with affective psychoses, manifest phases develop with a picture of psychopathic mania (more than in half of the cases). Their development occurs quickly, within 4-5 days. The average duration of such manifest mania is 4-5 months.
Manifest manic states of the type of classic cheerful mania are observed in 20% of patients. They also develop quickly - within 1 week and last an average of 3-4 months.
In some cases, manic states develop with particular severity within 1-2 days, at the height of affect, manic delirium and (or) ideational confusion appear. nine0005
Mixed states . With bipolar varieties of affective psychosis, mixed states can develop [Sosyukalo O. O., 1989]. Some of them can be considered typical and mixed states, formed by the type of replacement of individual components of the affective triad of one pole with psychopathological disorders related to the affective triad of the opposite affective pole - inhibited and associative-slowed mania, hyperactive and associative-accelerated depression; others refer to atypical mixed states that are formed as a result of joining the typical affective triad of one pole of individual disorders that are phenomenologically related to the individual components of the affective triad of the opposite pole - dysphoria-like, hypochondriacal and asthenic mania. nine0005
Most often, atypical affective syndromes develop with a monopolar course of affective psychosis, they are also significant in cases of a bipolar course of the disease with a predominance of any one of the poles of affective disorders (depressive or manic).
Features of depressive and manic manifest states in different types of affective psychosis . Monopolar depressive affective psychosis in most cases begins with reactive and endoreactive depressions, the clinical picture of which is dominated by atypical depression syndromes with anxiety-phobic, astheno-adynamic and senesto-hypochondriac manifestations. In cases where psychosis develops according to type monopolar mania , the disease manifests itself with the clinical picture of an atypical manic state, designated as "mania without mania". For bipolar affective psychosis with a predominance of depressive disorders, the disease manifests itself in endoreactive phases with a clinical picture of anxiety-phobic depression or depression approaching the classic variant of endogenous depression. In these cases, the proportion of endogenous disorders increases.
The bipolar type of affective psychosis with a predominance of manic disorders is most characteristic of manifest manic phases, the clinical picture of which is dominated by affective disorders of the type of psychopathic mania.
In cases with a distinctly bipolar type of course I of endogenous affective psychosis, the depressive states that the disease manifests in their structure belong to classical endogenous depression with a picture of typical dreary melancholy or classic cheerful mania. nine0005
In patients with monopolar endogenous affective psychosis, regardless of the pole of phasic affective disorders (depressive or manic), the development of a manifest affective syndrome is more often gradual, over several weeks, and if depressive disorders, regardless of the structure of depression (reactive, endoreactive, endogenous), increase lytic within 2-5 weeks, then the development of the manic manifest phase is even slower, sometimes dragging on up to 3-4 months. The reverse dynamics of the affective syndrome in monopolar varieties of affective psychosis is also gradual. The exit from the affective phase continues for 3-4 weeks. During this period, as a rule, asthenovegetative disorders persist for a long time in the form of increased fatigue, tearfulness, irritability, or transient anxiety associated with the upcoming discharge from the hospital.
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With all varieties of bipolar endogenous affective psychosis, regardless of the ratio of different poles of affect in the picture of the disease, the manifest phase is characterized by the acute development of an affective syndrome with a rapid, within 3-4 days, increase in depressive or manic symptoms and the same critical, within a few days, the completion of affective disorders with a complete exit from the state and restoration of the previous working capacity (patients “as if waking up from an illness”). nine0005
Manifest affective phases in certain varieties of the course of affective psychosis also differ in duration. The most protracted (4-12 months) are affective states, which are manifested by monopolar affective psychosis, both depressive and manic (78 and 83.3%, respectively). On the contrary, the shortest duration of phasic-affective disorders during the manifestation of the disease (up to 3 months) is observed in bipolar variants of the course, especially in clearly bipolar ones - in 78.
6%. nine0005
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That case when I overestimated my expectations and got disappointed as a result.
The author tells his personal story of life and struggle with bipolar disorder. Judging by the book, she has a loving family, mother and brother who are always ready to help. Excellent, understanding friends, there were several equally understanding men who were ready to live with a person who is not very stable mentally. In reality, this is very cool and the author, oddly enough, was very lucky. All the time I thought about our (Ukrainian) dying psychiatry and thought how hard it is for people with a similar diagnosis in my country, so you need to write about them, but it’s better to shout ...
Despite the fact that Kay Jamison has a specialized education, in this book she did not talk about the disease as a disease, but only about her experience of living with it. On the one hand, this is interesting, but for some reason I was not touched at all, I was not hooked by her story.
By showing manic outbursts from a good, creative side, the author created the illusion of the normality of such a symptom, which is not very good, since with epilepsy, too, before an attack, people often experience a creative surge and euphoria, but this does not mean that it is not necessary to be treated. nine0005
The story about the unwillingness to take the drug against the disease and the side effects of this drug for some reason did not impress either, but it is very good that the author emphasized the need for treatment, and most importantly the need for support from loved ones. It seems to me that her story of wonderful relationships with loved ones is more an exception than a rule, at least in our realities, so this well-being is a little infuriating, and most importantly, there are absolutely no real recommendations on how to cope with the disease, both for a person suffering from it, and his relatives. nine0005
December 5, 2020
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Of course, this is an interesting story of a person suffering from manic-depressive psychosis, which I listened to with pleasure, but he did not dispel a few questions, but even added a couple of questions.
Let's start with the fact that there was no particular victory of the author over bipolar disorder - this is the victory of lithium over him. In her piggy bank, you can only write down that she finally began to take it regularly, without breakdowns and subsequent manic phrases. nine0005
Jamison paints her childhood, family and early life in vivid colors, but obscures all manifestations of her disorder, only occasionally throwing phrases about the fact that people around her suffered from her mood swings. And that's it. The fact that the father also had similar symptoms, we learn closer to the middle. Intentional silence or unintentional avoidance - the devil knows. The next startling fact is that as a psychology student, Jamieson did not connect her symptoms with the classic picture of manic-depressive psychosis (bipolar disorder), which is surprising. Here the shoemaker without boots is immediately remembered. nine0005
There are pluses in the book, which makes it quite easy to read - the author has a very lyrical style, the ability to describe characters.
Interspersed with her observations of the sick and thoughts about the direction in which the system and society should change, its attitude towards people with an affective disorder, it is also interesting to read, but I can’t say that the book is just wow for me.
July 11, 2019
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Manic-depressive psychosis is a disease that not only kills, but also creates. nine0132The author of the book is a psychiatrist who has reached great heights in his profession and in life. At the same time, she herself is a psycho. More precisely, she has a manic-depressive psychosis, or, as this condition is now called, bipolar disorder .
It looks rather strange and ambiguous, but on mature reflection we come to the conclusion that everything is correct. Who can better study disease than one who is ill himself? And Kay Jamison tells us in detail about the various aspects of his life from childhood to the next (last?) marriage.Without bipolar disorder, she would not have been able to get married so many times, write all the books she wrote, create a laboratory for the study of bipolar disorder, participate in television shows, teach graduate students, etc. etc. nine0103 She could not fly among the rings and moons of Saturn. I couldn't do many things. Without bipolar disorder K.J. would have lived an ordinary boring life .
Generally speaking, bipolar disorder is a good thing. We have the same high as from various illegal drugs, and even better, because is free .
Well almost free:
Two psychiatrists are talking.
-- I came across a very interesting case of split personality.
-- Why is he interesting? nine0103 -- I managed to convince each individual to pay me separately for treatment.In a manic period, life is in full swing. William Styron described it even better. And yet, bipolar disorder is a painful condition, and it threatens to "complication" in the form of suicide in a depressive period.
Like Suzanne Cachalan, K.J. I was helped by close people (especially my brother and numerous husbands) and understanding colleagues. By the way, she acted very far-sightedly, choosing mainly psychiatrists as husbands. nine0005
The book is quite interesting. Cognitive. For example, now I know that lithium is used not only as a coolant in the primary circuit of a nuclear power plant. It can also treat bipolar disorder. K.J. took it several kilograms of 300 mg per day for several decades. And if necessary, they can easily get poisoned. She tried that too.
Suicide is almost always irrational. It is extremely rare for a person to decide on it in his right mind, which he has in his best days. This is an impulsive move, and more often than not, things don't go as planned. nine0132K.J.'s suicide. turned out to be unsuccessful . A successful funeral is followed, but here they did not happen. (André Maurois has covered this issue well, and I highly recommend his story.
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And there is humor in moderation in the book. Pretty specific, like this:
[when treating] be patient and wait for the medicine to take effect. A lot of patience. Read the Book of Job. Show a little more patience.At least one attempt at a joke left me confused:
Journalists often write about the August migration of psychiatrists.I surfed the whole Internet, here is the only at least somehow similar to that I found on this request:
The most important thing that I learned from reading the book is another confirmation of the slogan "Never give up!" I know a great story:
I'm sitting, crying... A little boy comes up:
-- Aunt, why are you crying?
-- Nobody needs me, baby.
He left, then returned:
-- Did you ask everyone? nine0022Yes, so who beats who in the title of my review?
Decide for yourself. If you have bipolar disorder, then in the manic stage you will think that love is the winner.In depressive - that madness.
If you don't have bipolar disorder, then I don't know, everything is possible in this case.However, a little madness of love never hurts. This is undeniable.
October 9, 2017
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In my opinion, it's time for me to stop reading books about how a woman overcomes her own mental problems through willpower, psychotherapy, and drug treatment, and becomes a psychiatrist.
"I Never Promised You a Rose Garden" by Joanne Greenberg, "The Core Doesn't Hold" by Elin Sachs, now here's Kay Jamison.
No, these are all certainly very useful books: if you think that all people with mental and behavioral disorders are clearly unacceptable, dangerous, contagious, and you need to get away from them in the subway away (or even prohibit them from using public transport and appearing in public places). Or, on the contrary, you think that depression, bipolar, borderline disorder, etc.- this is all a whim, and those who allegedly suffer from them are just idlers. And let them go get some fresh air, take communion in the church, bring a man / woman - they will immediately become normal. nine0103 Here from all this obscurantism such books are an excellent medicine.
But if you don't have any such stereotypes about mental illness, then such books are interesting to read - well, I don't know - the first two times. They are a plus or minus about one thing:
"I thought that I should cope with my problems on my own, then I fell into psychosis, then again I thought that I should cope on my own, refused to take pills, fell into psychosis again, after 10 years I realized that everything - I still need to take pills, I recovered and became a doctor. nine0103 And the main drama of each of these stories is built on the acceptance of the fact that these problems are lifelong. That you will always have to be treated and control your condition, every day. Take pills - every day.
And what a huge role the support of relatives and friends plays. And how wonderful it is when your loved ones are all psychiatrists and psychotherapists, here they definitely won’t let you screw up.
Sorry, couldn't resist sarcasm. But the truth is - I would really like to read some story of overcoming in our reality: where doctors advise "to give birth to a baby" as a solution to any problems. And if you, God forbid, are a representative of sexual minorities, a feminist, a political activist, then they will recommend getting rid of these "mental problems" first of all. Where you often don't have psychiatric friends who will call every two hours to make sure you don't slip into psychosis.
Breathe in the air, friends.May 7, 2018
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Saturday. I go to another imaginary bookstore to look around and maybe come back later. Suddenly, imperceptibly to myself, I take a book from the shelf, the title of which for some reason attracts my eye.
And I dissolve.
A woman runs up to me. She swings her arms chaotically, miraculously avoiding knocking innocent books off the shelves. She speaks much louder than she should. People would definitely look at her if they were here. A woman often says “I, I, I”, which starts to irritate me, there is a desire to leave. But the flow of her speech, imperceptibly for me, suddenly creates such a cozy atmosphere, and instead of chaotic movements and yapping, circles under my eyes, pain hidden inside and a crippled soul become noticeable to me. The stranger stops annoying me and gives me a chance to be an artist. nine0005
Here, a blank canvas. The first layer I apply childhood. And school years. Blue with an admixture of white, rare splashes of red and yellow. Yes, definitely yellow. Lots of yellow. Full of love, warmth and care, the childhood of a standing opposite and incessant woman seems to me just like that. Of course, there are sad moments. Of course, there, as if before a thunderstorm, a warning smell is already in the air, and invisible trees bend under the ever-increasing wind.
Next, the second layer. University years. Grey, black and orange. The woman keeps talking and talking. nine0020 And in my head next to the easel there is already a bloody puddle (so far small, hardly noticeable).
Then I paint red and brown onto the canvas while Kay (yes, we finally met) keeps talking and talking like if she stopped talking, the world would collapse in an instant. A puddle of blood next to the easel is already squelching under our feet, as soon as we make the slightest movement. And now, again, the black color asks for the already fairly damaged "blank canvas". Time passes, Miss Jamieson does not stop and does not give me a word to insert. As a result, we come to the fact that with irritation I pour no less enraging light brown on the canvas that is suffering and turning into paper before our eyes. Everybody. Tired. nine0005Put aside the brush, moved the easel away and began to listen more. I'm interested in places. For example, when a woman tells stories from her medical practice.
Then she begins to pour out thanks to her relatives, and I want to hide, for example, in that puddle, which for some reason simply dissolved. Or hide behind an easel, which also disappeared somewhere. I feel superfluous in this stream of confessions flying like arrows. In places, her story becomes a stone that is not so easy to carry. But at this moment it is enough to think about what an unbearable block it is for the narrator, and the stone becomes larger, but lighter. She then talks and talks about her romances. which are not of interest to me. There are many and they all look alike. Kay gives me the impression of a person who can speak, think, but completely drowned in himself. At the same time, I am grateful to her for every reference to writers, their quotes, their lives, she is well-read and this (probably not only) attracts attention. But she doesn't tell me anything new. And I realize that in front of me is a person, a living person, with a very complex, but at the same time eventful life.
nine0019 However, her story doesn't hurt, even though it's about pain.
Morning. Tuesday. The woman left. The imaginary bookstore vanished. And I would like to say a few words to her in parting. Summarize.
I liked her point of view on the importance of mental health and attention to it was the same as physical health. I am in a good way surprised by the amount of her contribution to research on affective (and not only) disorders, and even more surprised by her desire to ensure that as many people as possible know what manic-depressive psychosis is. I also admire her openness and sincerity, her willingness to tell the world about what it is like to live with such a disease. She seems to me a very strong woman, but I see too many things related to mental illness differently. And too much, alas, did not agree with her. However, I would like to meet her again. nine0005
I wonder if she'll ever run up to me again?
Pointless P.S.
It always seemed to me that psychiatrists become them, for the most part, precisely because of their internal problems.
No, not always to diagnose yourself. Simply, as they say, "the fisherman of the fisherman." This book is just confirmation.
And also... No, perhaps that's enough for now.July 10, 2018
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The book is read in an engaging and easy way, despite the fact that it is about very sensitive, painful experiences. Reading fills with hope, inspires the pain with bipolar disorder, at the same time reconciling with the diagnosis. Incredibly responsive text, every word resonates with empathy deep inside.
I recommend it to those who suffer from bipolar disorder, as well as to those who are nearby and want to increase empathy for this condition.July 25, 2022
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I read the book in one breath in one evening. I chose it as a tribute to the memory of my closest friend, who suffered from the same disease.
How many sad, tragic, and, at the same time, joyful and happy memories came flooding back...
Everything is piercingly accurate... and I am grateful to the author for "this meeting" and I bow before her courage and honesty.March 5, 2017
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I was shocked by how accurately and vividly the emotions and feelings are described in this work, suffering personally from borderline personality disorder. In some moments, it broke into tears, how much I understand all the experiences. nine0005
February 11, 2022
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9000 to her from well-read and unusual people. I read it quickly. It is written quite simply, mostly in short end sentences, however, this only adds to its value. Enthusiasm did not cause, however, and should not cause.
