Comments on: 5 Minutes Alone… With Terri Cheney http://authorscoop.com/2009/02/26/5-minutes-alone-with-terri-cheney/ The Latest in Literary News Thu, 17 May 2012 11:25:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Terri Cheney Launches Column at Psychology Today « Because I Love To Hear Myself Type http://authorscoop.com/2009/02/26/5-minutes-alone-with-terri-cheney/#comment-26050 Terri Cheney Launches Column at Psychology Today « Because I Love To Hear Myself Type Tue, 18 Jan 2011 22:59:05 +0000 http://authorscoop.com/?p=3465#comment-26050 [...] Terri Cheney, a wonderful author, who I consider also a friend, has launched Psychology Today’s newest feature, The Bipolar Lens. We met in discussion of her amazing, MANIC: A MEMOIR, and now, there’s more.  Lucky for everyone. [...] [...] Terri Cheney, a wonderful author, who I consider also a friend, has launched Psychology Today’s newest feature, The Bipolar Lens. We met in discussion of her amazing, MANIC: A MEMOIR, and now, there’s more.  Lucky for everyone. [...]

]]> By: Carolyn LaBrunda http://authorscoop.com/2009/02/26/5-minutes-alone-with-terri-cheney/#comment-5190 Carolyn LaBrunda Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:09:38 +0000 http://authorscoop.com/?p=3465#comment-5190 Thank you, Terri Cheney for your book. I wanted some idea of what my daughter went through. My daughter was a beautiful very intellegent woman in the gifted and magnet programs all through school. She was an amazing athelete who played softball in high school and college. She played three instruments and she loved music. We found out she was bipolar in Sept. of 2004, while she was in the hospital being treated for menigitis. I knew she had become depressed and I kept urging her to get a therapist. She was put on prozac and several other drugs, for nocturnal seizures and we found her on Christmas Eve on the floor of her grandmother.s home. She was not breathing and she was rushed to the hospital and they restrarted her heart, but she was brain dead. I think this was a seizure in her sleep,but I found out after her death from her friends that she had been acting recklessly and they were worried about her. This has been the saddest thing I have ever had to deal with, and I have had lots of stuff to deal with. My son is in jail right now awaiting trial for killing his pregnant girlfriend. He also was highly intelligent, had a baseball scholarship to college and also was diagnosed with depression and he has attemped suicide three times. The first time he was 25 and ttook about 50 extra strenght Tylenol pills which caused him to go into liver failure and he was at County usc for 8 days and his liver came back. The doctors said he shuold hjave died. He was talked to by 2 psychiatrists and they said he was fine and didn't need any follow up. I knew that wasn't true. When he was on Zoloft he was doing well but as he always did he would stop taking the meds. he needed and he eventually became addicted to crsthal meth. which made him so paranoid and aggresive. There is a big hole in the system. I knew he was sick and yet there was northing I could do to force him to get help.I am raising his son and I want to make sure early on that if he has any mental health issues I can find out early and help him. My daughter also left behind a beautiful son who was three and a half when she died.I knew my daughter was moody and irritable alot and that she had trouble sleeping and that she was a shopaholic, but I did not know she was bipolar. and I believe your book does such a service explaining things to the public. I hope it will take some of the shame away from metal illness, because alot of the time not only does the person who is ill feel shame but so do their parents, who hear comments about how it must be the parents fault that their children are the way they are. I am in a group called GAP (Grandparents as Parents) and there are so many people in that group who have their gandchildren, because of drugs, mental illness, or death. The woman who founded this group, started this group when her sister committed suicide and left an 8 year old son who her parents raised.It is a wonderful support group for relative caregivers.This went on much longer than I'd planned but I want ypou to know how much I appreciate your book. I will read the book you are writing on your childhood. My grandson is very bright, but he has two parents nwith mental heath and addiction issues and he has already been found bto have ADHD and I know that one third of ADHD child are also bipolar, so I need to get him any help he needs. I look forward to your next book. I am so glad that you found something that worked for you. Carolyn La Brunda Thank you, Terri Cheney for your book. I wanted some idea of what my daughter went through. My daughter was a beautiful very intellegent woman in the gifted and magnet programs all through school. She was an amazing athelete who played softball in high school and college. She played three instruments and she loved music. We found out she was bipolar in Sept. of 2004, while she was in the hospital being treated for menigitis. I knew she had become depressed and I kept urging her to get a therapist. She was put on prozac and several other drugs, for nocturnal seizures and we found her on Christmas Eve on the floor of her grandmother.s home. She was not breathing and she was rushed to the hospital and they restrarted her heart, but she was brain dead. I think this was a seizure in her sleep,but I found out after her death from her friends that she had been acting recklessly and they were worried about her. This has been the saddest thing I have ever had to deal with, and I have had lots of stuff to deal with. My son is in jail right now awaiting trial for killing his pregnant girlfriend. He also was highly intelligent, had a baseball scholarship to college and also was diagnosed with depression and he has attemped suicide three times. The first time he was 25 and ttook about 50 extra strenght Tylenol pills which caused him to go into liver failure and he was at County usc for 8 days and his liver came back. The doctors said he shuold hjave died. He was talked to by 2 psychiatrists and they said he was fine and didn’t need any follow up. I knew that wasn’t true. When he was on Zoloft he was doing well but as he always did he would stop taking the meds. he needed and he eventually became addicted to crsthal meth. which made him so paranoid and aggresive. There is a big hole in the system. I knew he was sick and yet there was northing I could do to force him to get help.I am raising his son and I want to make sure early on that if he has any mental health issues I can find out early and help him. My daughter also left behind a beautiful son who was three and a half when she died.I knew my daughter was moody and irritable alot and that she had trouble sleeping and that she was a shopaholic, but I did not know she was bipolar. and I believe your book does such a service explaining things to the public. I hope it will take some of the shame away from metal illness, because alot of the time not only does the person who is ill feel shame but so do their parents, who hear comments about how it must be the parents fault that their children are the way they are. I am in a group called GAP (Grandparents as Parents) and there are so many people in that group who have their gandchildren, because of drugs, mental illness, or death. The woman who founded this group, started this group when her sister committed suicide and left an 8 year old son who her parents raised.It is a wonderful support group for relative caregivers.This went on much longer than I’d planned but I want ypou to know how much I appreciate your book. I will read the book you are writing on your childhood. My grandson is very bright, but he has two parents nwith mental heath and addiction issues and he has already been found bto have ADHD and I know that one third of ADHD child are also bipolar, so I need to get him any help he needs. I look forward to your next book. I am so glad that you found something that worked for you. Carolyn La Brunda

]]> By: Author Terri Cheney makes a guest appearance on AuthorScoop http://authorscoop.com/2009/02/26/5-minutes-alone-with-terri-cheney/#comment-5140 Author Terri Cheney makes a guest appearance on AuthorScoop Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:54:03 +0000 http://authorscoop.com/?p=3465#comment-5140 [...] on AuthorScoop Commenta 26th February , 2009 Terri Cheney, of Manic: A Memoir fame, spent 5 Minutes Alone with [...] [...] on AuthorScoop Commenta 26th February , 2009 Terri Cheney, of Manic: A Memoir fame, spent 5 Minutes Alone with [...]

]]> By: William Haskins http://authorscoop.com/2009/02/26/5-minutes-alone-with-terri-cheney/#comment-5139 William Haskins Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:31:19 +0000 http://authorscoop.com/?p=3465#comment-5139 great interview, jamie. thanks, terri. great interview, jamie.

thanks, terri.

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