The Dark Side of Innocence

Growing Up Bipolar

By: Terri Cheney

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

The New York Times best-selling author blends a pitch-perfect childlike voice with keen adult observation as she shares her heartrending, groundbreaking insider's look into the fascinating and frightening world of childhood bipolar disorder.

Starting with her first suicide attempt at age seven, Terri Cheney was held hostage by her roller-coaster moods, veering from easy A-pluses to total paralysis, from bouts of obsessive hypersexuality to episodes of alcoholic abandon that nearly cost her her life. On the outside, her world appeared perfect. She was pretty and smart, an academic superstar and popular cheerleader. Yet her inner world was chaos, a well-guarded secret too troubling, too painful to fathom even 30 years later in her best-selling memoir, Manic, which was lauded as "chilling" and "brilliant" by People. In The Dark Side of Innocence, her eye-opening follow-up, Terri shares her poignant and compelling journey from a childhood of disaster and despair to hope and survival, an informative first-person account of a dark beast that preys on a staggering one million children.

©2011 Terri Cheney (P)2021 Tantor

Very powerful, insightful, daring, brave

I realize through Terri more about my sister. She opens up ‘the beast’ like a surgeon. Now I know much more.
Highly recommended.

Such a good read

10/10 recommend, it spoke volumes to my own life and experiences that i’ve gone through

Excellent

I would read anything by this author. She is articulate and educated, and makes everything in her experience accessible.