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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Page 2
... there were other signs, other portents that I was very, very ill. I do not recall any manias before I was nineteen. Oh, I can look back at certain things and speculate that maybe there were some manias going on, recollections of ...
... there were other signs, other portents that I was very, very ill. I do not recall any manias before I was nineteen. Oh, I can look back at certain things and speculate that maybe there were some manias going on, recollections of ...
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... there was something very wrong. But there was a strange relationship going on there as well. The Rosses mixed pills and alcohol and did some pretty irresponsible things, including making me their bartender and giving me first drinks ...
... there was something very wrong. But there was a strange relationship going on there as well. The Rosses mixed pills and alcohol and did some pretty irresponsible things, including making me their bartender and giving me first drinks ...
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... There was much hullabaloo and trauma, but I did leave and spent most of that summer at Harry's place in Manhattan or out on Fire Island. But in the fall, I had to go back to L.A. to do the series. For the first time in my life I lived ...
... There was much hullabaloo and trauma, but I did leave and spent most of that summer at Harry's place in Manhattan or out on Fire Island. But in the fall, I had to go back to L.A. to do the series. For the first time in my life I lived ...
Page 10
... there to get dressed to go to the supermarket, and Harry would come back hours later and find me still standing there. I also went on a diet at that time, a really swell diet of cigarettes, coffee, and Diet Rite cola. I went from 108 ...
... there to get dressed to go to the supermarket, and Harry would come back hours later and find me still standing there. I also went on a diet at that time, a really swell diet of cigarettes, coffee, and Diet Rite cola. I went from 108 ...
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... There were times when all of this leveled off, but I never knew what made it stop, what made the crying stop, what made me not be afraid that day. I also didn't question it. Once things seemed to be okay, I didn't mess with it. This was ...
... There were times when all of this leveled off, but I never knew what made it stop, what made the crying stop, what made me not be afraid that day. I also didn't question it. Once things seemed to be okay, I didn't mess with it. This was ...
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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