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<p class="null1">“Killing yourself at any age is a seriously tricky business. But when I was seven, the odds felt insurmountable.”</p> <p>As a young girl, Terri Cheney’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.</p> <p>“There’s something wrong with her,” 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 Terri’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.</p> <p>Thirty years later, Terri wrote <i>Manic,</i> a harrowing memoir that revealed her adult struggle with bipolar disorder. It became an instant <i>New York

Who reads The Dark Side of Innocence (Growing up Bipolar)?

Author

Cheney, Terri, 1959-

Publisher

Atria Books; Atria

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781439176214

Category

self-help

Subjects

Medical, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

3.93 / 5 (29 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14