Welcome to Litsy!

It's a funny story how I got into this book. I really enjoyed the Amazon show 'Modern love', through that I got to know about the podcast, then the episode by Terri and then finally her book. Bipolar disorder has interested me for various reasons and honestly it's a really good account of her experience. A vivid and overwhelming account of something that is so common yet unknown to people.

As for the book, I definitely liked it.
4/5🌟

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📕 Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes
✍️ Yeats
🎥 Yes Man
🎤 The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
🎶 Yesterday

All please come play! 🎵 🎶

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📚 Where the Wild Things Are
✍️ William Kent Krueger
🎥 The Wilderpeople - I recommend this sleeper!
🎤 Weezer, White Lion, John Waite
🎶 What‘s Love Got to do With It, Wait by White Lion saw live in 1988

📚 New Moon, Nightshift
✍️ Nancy Drew
🎥 Night at the Museum, Nanny McPhee, two favorites when my kids were small
🎸 Nine Inch Nails - Trent Reznor is my birthday Buddy.
🎵 Nasty, New Moon on Monday, Never Gonna Give you Up (80‘s girl here!)
#manicmonday #lettern @CBee

“How could I ever hope to tell a normal person about the terrors of being happy? Unless there was a damned good reason for it…happiness wasn‘t a safe harbor for me. It was just another checkpoint on the road to mania.”

This memoir was compellingly profound. I have loved ones and close friends that have bipolar disorder, and I don‘t know nearly as much as I imagined I did about what life is like for them on a daily basis.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I started listening to this audiobook last night when I learned that Anne Hathaway was portraying the author in Amazon‘s series Modern Love. This is compelling! I came to the library for a physical copy to read when I can‘t listen and for her sequel, THE DARK SIDE OF INNOCENCE.
#currentlyreading #mentalillness

Really appreciated this book and thought the non-linear format added to Terri Cheney's story.

Very relatable and real. Well written. Enjoyed it cover to cover.

I reread this one today quickly before shipping it out on a Paperbackswap trade. It was better than I remembered. I upgraded my previous Goodreads rating to 3 stars, but would give 3 and a half if I could. Quick read, interesting subject matter, and I thought it was pretty well-written.

Quick, interesting read. I always think it's so much more informative to hear someone describe an experience (like being in a manic state) than just reading/hearing the symptoms of such.

Trigger warning: she covers her experiences both with rape and suicide attempts.

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