201 SelfWork: A Conversation with Terri Cheney, author of Manic and Modern Madness
The SelfWork Podcast
Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
I had the great pleasure of talking to New York Times best-selling author, Terri Cheney, a couple of weeks ago. She's come forward the last few years to reveal her struggle with severe bipolar disorder in books that are as transparent as they are dramatic. I read her her newest book, Modern Madness, and frankly couldn't put it down. And even though I've been a clinician for over twenty-five years, I learned so much from her vivid explanations and revelations about just what goes on inside someone's mind when they cycle from struggling with thought of suicide to high-flying mania.
Terri's former profession was as a highly successful entertainment lawyer, with clients such as Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson. She now advocates for mental health awareness and leads a campaign to #TellMeWhereItHurts - urging people to ask questions and really listen to the answers from those who need compassion and to be seen for themselves, not their disease.
I know that this will be helpful to anyone who listens. And maybe, you'll choose to say, "Tell Me Where It Hurts" yourself. It's a beautiful gift to give someone who struggles emotionally and mentally.
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| 0:00.0 | This is self-work and I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. |
| 0:13.0 | At self-work, we'll discuss psychological and emotional issues common in today's world |
| 0:19.0 | and what to do about them. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Dr. Margaret and self-work is a podcast dedicated to you taking just a few minutes today for your own self-work |
| 0:29.3 | Hi and welcome or welcome back to self-work. I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford, a clinical |
| 0:34.8 | psychologist out of Fayetteville, Arkansas, and I began self-work four years ago in order |
| 0:40.3 | to reach really three groups, those of you who might already be very interested in psychological or emotional issues, |
| 0:46.5 | but are looking for another perspective, |
| 0:48.5 | to those of you who might initially have been diagnosed with depression or anxiety or maybe you're having a |
| 0:54.0 | relationship problem that you just can't seem to get through to a solution and you're |
| 0:58.9 | looking for ideas. But there's also a third group to those of you who might never darken the door of a therapist's office |
| 1:05.9 | Because you've believed that it's weak or that there's stigma involved and I want you to hear a psychologist and that's of course me talk about therapy and what kinds of things that people in therapy go through. |
| 1:18.0 | So maybe, just maybe, you might reconsider. |
| 1:22.0 | Last week's episode was so meaningful to me as it was episode 200. |
| 1:27.0 | And of course, I hope you laughed at the very last. |
| 1:30.0 | I've certainly had people contact me and say they did. My audio engineer rammed that by me and I couldn't help but giggle myself. |
| 1:38.0 | So I hope that episode 200 was a celebration for you as well as for me. |
| 1:44.0 | Today I have the distinct pleasure and honor of having a conversation with Terry Cheney. |
| 1:50.0 | She has actually three books, all of which have been New York Times |
| 1:54.0 | bestsellers. Her first was the Dark Side of Innocence which portrayed her |
| 1:58.6 | growing up with bipolar disorder and trying to figure out what her life was going to be like. Then there was |
| 2:04.7 | manic which was a huge hit about just how her bipolar disorder had affected her |
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