Through the Open Door
A Bipolar Attorney Talks Mania, Recovery, and Heaven on Earth
In Through the Open Door, Hilary Martin Chaney takes you places you can only imagine: a psychiatric hospital, a manic state, and Heaven on Earth.
She chronicles her battle with and subsequent triumph over Bipolar Disorder, including her travails in law school and her ups and downs through marriage, motherhood, and rebuilding a legal career after hitting rock bottom.
Ten years after she wrote her memoir, Hilary lost her cherished husband to colon cancer at 43 years old. The skills she learned to manage bipolar and deal with major crises helped Hilary navigate this great loss.
Hilary doesn't just report her story; she also offers coping tools for fellow Bipolars.
Through the Open Door also offers a gift to those on the quest to find Heaven: it imparts the revelations Hilary experienced during her manic episodes, when she walked in Heaven on Earth and lived in a post-religion utopia.
The imaginative and poetic writing sets this book apart, and few manic biographies give the reader an actual glimpse of the Bipolar brain like Hilary does.
The excerpts from her journal are raw and riveting, and recorded exactly as it flew from her fingertips.
This book is a must read for those struggling with mental illness and for those who have ever sought spiritual answers to our most profound mysteries.
