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Manic: A Memoir, by Terri Cheney

By Jerry • Mar 21st, 2008 • Category: Books and Literature, Featured


It’s not often that I see a book on ADHD or Bipolar Disorder that I think is worth mentioning to my readers.  In this case I feel I need to make an exception.  Manic: A Memoir, by former Los Angeles Entertainment lawyer Terri Cheney is getting rave reviews not only from the mental health oriented communities, but from mainstream reviewers as well.

The orange County Register calls this book “Amazing and powerful…[MANIC] forces the reader into Cheney’s bipolar world, into her deep and fearful depressions mixed with her giddy, high-flying manic moods”

As someone who has not only lived with…