Word: bipolarity
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...QUESTIONS: Jane Pauley on avoiding politics, living with bipolar disorder and why she loves Oprah and Ellen...
...starring in Prime Time (on Dateline NBC), Jane Pauley, 53, will venture next week into a new time period, as host of a daytime syndicated talk show. The mother of three (and wife of Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau) has also written a book, Skywriting, in which she reveals her bipolar disorder. She talked with TIME's Michele Orecklin...
...He’s a sort of idealistic and naive 18-year-old kid. It’s not that hard to remember what that was like. Harvard people have that bipolar, idealistic-slash-skeptical character, so it pretty much...
...sequel to Postcards from the Edge, Fisher's 1987 autobiographical debut novel about the emotional perils of growing up in Hollywood as the daughter of two big names (names like, say, Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds). In each book Suzanne careers gamely into crisis--a drug addiction then, a bipolar crack-up now, not unlike the one Fisher suffered in 1997. This time she also has a concerned ex-husband who has left her for a man, and a beloved little daughter who may be starting to prefer the company of Dad and his boyfriend. They do, after all, have...
...boom. In the end, of course, bipolar disorder is no joke. Suzanne goes into reverse, into the lethal subtraction of depression--first happiness goes, then feeling of any kind. When a doctor treats her with an unsuitable new prescription, she ends up in a mental hospital, the usual cuckoo's nest of chain smokers and emotional skulduggery. There's some light at the end of the tunnel, but the point of this book is not the destination. It's the haywire road Suzanne takes as she drives herself crazy. Fisher can drive you crazy too. But when she pulls...