Madness marya hornbacher5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() She recounts the soaring highs and obliterating lows of her condition the savage moodswings and impossible strains it placed on her relationships the physical danger it has occasionally put her in the endless cycle of illness and recovery. In this new, equally raw and frank account, Marya Hornbacher tells the story of her ongoing battle with this most pervasive and devastating of mental illnesses how, as she puts it, 'it crept over me like a vine, sending out tentative shoots in my childhood, taking deeper root in my adolescence, growing stronger in my early adulthood, eventually covering my body and face until I was unrecognizable, trapped, immobilized'. But it was only eighteen years later that she learned the true underlying reason for her distress: bipolar disorder. ![]() From the age of six, Marya Hornbacher knew that something was terribly wrong with her, manifesting itself in anorexia and bulimia which she documented in her bestselling memoir 'Wasted'. A searing, unflinching and deeply moving account of Marya Hornbacher's personal experience of living with bipolar disorder. ![]()
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