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Her extreme selves; MEMOIR: Her moods are all over the map, she's popping pills, terrified all the time -- and yet it takes years and years before anyone properly diagnoses the problem: bipolar disease.(ENTERTAINMENT)

Byline: BRIGITTE FRASE

Special to the Star Tribune

Looking at a serenely beautiful portrait of Marya Hornbacher, I found it hard to believe that the author has been to hell and back not once but at least once a year since early childhood.

She has suffered every imaginable disorder: anorexia and bulimia (the subject of her first memoir, "Wasted"), alcoholism, drug addiction, hypersexuality, paranoia, cutting and last (and least!), the occasional financially ruinous shopping spree. And these are just the symptoms of the underlying malady, manic-depressive disease, which afflicts just 2 percent of the population, as Hornbacher notes in her useful and sobering ...

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