![]() ![]() As I got older, I started having real problems in school. I was aware that I was pretty wild, that I couldn't calm myself, that I had dramatic shifts in moods and thought patterns. My own awareness that something was wrong with me was also very, very early. MARYA HORNBACHER: My parents say that even as a very, very little kid, the way that I acted was dramatically different from other little kids. TIME: At what age did you first find yourself having emotional problems? TIME reporter Andrea Sachs reached Hornbacher at her home in Minneapolis. Her new courageous book, Madness: A Bipolar Life (Houghton Mifflin) delves fearlessly into the experience of severe mental illness, in the tradition of An Unquiet Mind and The Center Cannot Hold. With a proper diagnosis and treatment came self-knowledge and a remarkably stable life. Before finally being diagnosed with bipolar disorder at 24, she suffered through life-threatening anorexia and bulimia (described in her best-selling book Wasted), self-mutilation, drugs, alcohol and numbing sex. Follow hard to imagine a more harrowing life, psychologically speaking, than that which author Marya Hornbacher, 34, has lived. ![]()
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