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...hard to imagine a more harrowing life, psychologically speaking, than that which author Marya Hornbacher, 34, has lived. Before finally being diagnosed with bipolar disorder at 24, she suffered through life-threatening anorexia and bulimia (described in her best-selling book Wasted), self-mutilation, drugs, alcohol and numbing sex. With a proper diagnosis and treatment came self-knowledge and a remarkably stable life. Her new courageous book, Madness: A Bipolar Life (Houghton Mifflin) delves fearlessly into the experience of severe mental illness, in the tradition of An Unquiet Mind and The Center Cannot Hold. TIME reporter Andrea Sachs reached Hornbacher...
...MARYA HORNBACHER: My parents say that even as a very, very little kid, the way that I acted was dramatically different from other little kids. My own awareness that something was wrong with me was also very, very early. I was aware that I was pretty wild, that I couldn't calm myself, that I had dramatic shifts in moods and thought patterns. I always felt a little crazy. As I got older, I started having real problems in school. I was getting in trouble a lot. I was developing an eating disorder and some substance abuse problems...
...work is taking place in Karachi, which is now the main seaport, industrial and financial hub of the country. The city boasts several top-notch educational institutions, its standard of living is increasing and security is getting better. I invite you to visit, and assure you of complete peace. Marya Husain Karachi
...final four candidates selected by the search team were D'Alessandro; Murphy; Arlene Ackerman, the deputy superintendent in Seattle, who dropped out of the race in August to accept another position; and Marya Levenson, superintendent of the North Colonie Schools in upstate New York...
...guess it's not hard for me to get advisors or people to talk to or mentors or any of that," says Marya L. Hill-Popper '96, who is involved in Radcliffe's Women's Leadership Project. "But the people that I think, 'Oh, I could be them' or 'I want to do what they do' are all men. I'm not really sure what kind of negative effect it has; but I kind of feel it has a vague negative effect...