Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive IllnessIn her revealing bestseller Call Me Anna, Patty Duke shared her long-kept secret: the talented, Oscar-winning actress who won our hearts on The Patty Duke Show was suffering from a serious-but-treatable-mental illness called manic depression. For nearly twenty years, until she was correctly diagnosed at age thirty-five, she careened between periods of extreme euphoria and debilitating depression, prone to delusions and panic attacks, temper tantrums, spending sprees, and suicide attempts. Now in A Brilliant Madness Patty Duke joins with medical reporter Gloria Hochman to shed light on this powerful, paradoxical, and destructive illness. From what it's like to live with manic-depressive disorder to the latest findings on its most effective treatments, this compassionate and eloquent book provides profound insight into the challenge of mental illness. And though Patty's story, which ends in a newfound happiness with her cherished family, it offers hope for all those who suffer from mood disorders and for the family, friends, and physicians who love and care for them. |
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... Movie Stars, Real People and Me, which he had told me about earlier. It was about Josh's manic depression and how he dealt with it. He placed the book in my left hand and my first lithium pill in the right. I'm sure there was a moment ...
... Movie Stars, Real People and Me, which he had told me about earlier. It was about Josh's manic depression and how he dealt with it. He placed the book in my left hand and my first lithium pill in the right. I'm sure there was a moment ...
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... movie, I would go into spasms. - This would go on until I got a job. Though petrified, I would pull it together enough to go and perform. I don't know how or why this worked for me because this is not the case with many people. Perhaps ...
... movie, I would go into spasms. - This would go on until I got a job. Though petrified, I would pull it together enough to go and perform. I don't know how or why this worked for me because this is not the case with many people. Perhaps ...
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... movie, Me, Natalie, and find an apartment and really function as an adult. But this was one of the times when I knew that the motor was starting to speed. I didn't know, of course, that I had an illness, but I was aware that something ...
... movie, Me, Natalie, and find an apartment and really function as an adult. But this was one of the times when I knew that the motor was starting to speed. I didn't know, of course, that I had an illness, but I was aware that something ...
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... movie. He basically turned me over to him. He said, “I'm not helping here, I'm only making things worse.” I felt so responsible for creating such trouble for Fred and the other people connected with the movie that I woke myself up the ...
... movie. He basically turned me over to him. He said, “I'm not helping here, I'm only making things worse.” I felt so responsible for creating such trouble for Fred and the other people connected with the movie that I woke myself up the ...
Contents
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TWO The Many Faces | 31 |
Three Why Me? | 63 |
FOUR Who Gets ManicDepressive | 80 |
FIVE My Little Beige Pill | 117 |
SIX Treatments That Work | 140 |
SEVEN Acting It Out | 182 |
EIGHT The Creativity Connection | 203 |
NINE My Family and Friends | 230 |
TEN Families Suffer and Learn | 255 |
ELEVEN Life After Manic Depression | 281 |
and Their Families | 302 |
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