Terri Cheney: ...that hiding a secret was worse than the secret itself

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Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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If you’ve struggled with mental health issues or if you care about someone who has, then you’ll want to hear what our guest on this episode, Terri Cheney, has to say. You may know Terri from her New York Times bestselling book, Manic: A Memoir, which depicted her life as an elite entertainment attorney suffering from bipolar disorder.

Terri’s new book is called, Modern Madness: An Owner’s Manual. It explores the struggles, stigmas, relationship dilemmas, treatments, and recovery techniques Terri and others have experienced in coping with mental health issues.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Jan Black. And I'm Laura Owens. If you've struggled with mental health issues or if you care about someone who has, then you'll want to hear what
0:21.2	our guest on this episode, Terry Cheney has to say. You may know Terry from her New York Times
0:26.2	bestselling book, Manick, a memoir, which depicted her life as an elite entertainment attorney
0:32.0	suffering from bipolar disorder. Terry's new book is called Modern Madness and Owners Manual. It explores the
0:39.1	struggles, stigmas, relationship dilemmas, treatments, and recovery techniques, Terry and others
0:45.2	have experienced in coping with mental health issues. Terry, we thank you so much for joining us.
0:50.9	Oh, thank you for having me. Tell us more about your new book, Modern Madness, and why you
0:56.5	feel people really need a book like this right now. Well, I think that COVID-19 has launched a second
1:05.1	epidemic, which is the epidemic of mental health, which has been going on for a while, but is just so much worse than it ever was.
1:14.6	Calls to audio and video centers went up a thousand percent in the first few months of lockdown,
1:23.6	and it's predicted there are going to be an additional 150,000 deaths of despair from coronavirus.
1:31.7	So this is just the time to talk about these issues.
1:35.8	People are experiencing depression and anxiety in a way they never really have before.
1:41.5	And tell us more about your book and how that plays into this. Well, my book is a
1:46.7	combination of my own personal experience with mental illness, particularly bipolar disorder,
1:52.6	and the scientific research into mental illness. So I combined them because I wanted to give a
1:58.6	full picture of both the inside and the outside of
2:03.4	mental illness. And I organized it like an owner's manual because a few years ago I bought a new
2:11.8	vacuum and it had all these bizarre and scary attachments and I couldn't figure out where they went and I was thumbing through
2:19.2	the owner's manual and I thought wouldn't it be great if there was an owner's manual for mental
2:25.1	health because it's so complicated and frightening for most people and that just gave me the
2:31.9	idea to organize my personal stories into sections like
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