Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

Patty Duke
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 120 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

Patty Duke
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 120 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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Chapter 1, Looking Backward

• This chapter presents to the reader the effects that manic depressive illness often has on patients and how the cycling moods can make everyday life difficult.

• Looking back, Patty began to see the panic attacks she suffered as a child, which are not directly related to the illness but can be caused by the anxiety that is a symptom of the disease.

• Patty then relates her difficult childhood, especially the parts of it that she believes directly affected her emotional growth and health.

• Patty believed that abandonment, which is a theme of her childhood, set up an emotional situation that allowed her disease to present itself.
• Patty then talks about the depression she suffered as a teenager that went unrecognized by the adults in her life because of their own problems, specifically alcoholism.

• When Patty moved out on her own, she began to suffer the...

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