"Out of the Crazywoods is the insightful and riveting story of Abenaki poet Cheryl Savageau's late-life diagnosis of manic depression (also known as bipolar disorder) and her personal journey towards the acceptance and management of this life-long...
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"Out of the Crazywoods is the insightful and riveting story of Abenaki poet Cheryl Savageau's late-life diagnosis of manic depression (also known as bipolar disorder) and her personal journey towards the acceptance and management of this life-long illness to achieve emotional stability"-- Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- About This Book -- Bagw and Tekw -- Under the Crib -- The Pivot Point -- Learning to Speak -- What It Is -- Age Three-The Witch in the Bag -- Angels -- Diagnosis -- Dirt -- She's Not Heavy, She's My Sister -- The Tarot -- Tiger Butter -- LOOK -- Age Seven-The Body Book -- Poppies -- At the Welfare Office -- Exuberance -- Shopping -- Crazy Lady in Grad School -- In Fourth Grade -- What's Happening? -- Jungle Road -- Blackouts -- Voices -- The Bad Mother -- Exceptional Children -- The Twirling Skirt -- Crazy Talk I -- The Death Turnpike Getting Fat on Antidepressants -- To Whom It May Concern: -- Memere Stories: Sing á Memere -- Sunday Dinners -- Pookie -- Peach Cobbler -- Falling in Love with Diane -- Talk Doc: Julie -- Grand Poobah -- Land of Enchantment I -- Stories and Storms -- New York in Albuquerque -- Leaving -- The Witch at the Wake -- Land of Enchantment II -- China Doll -- My Special One -- After Dropping Acid on a School Night -- Yeats -- You Bet Your Life -- Crazy Talk: Lonely -- Eating Worms I -- My Mother's Side -- Ceremony -- Falling into Grace -- A Paycheck Away -- Seven Mice -- Christmas with Tarot Cards Geraniums -- Citizens for Citizens -- Wet Ashes -- The Eighth Mouse -- Good morning: -- Memere Stories: Paint -- Not Connect: Abilify Mania -- Piano -- Memere Stories: Talking -- Talk Doc: Karen -- Listenings -- Giving Myself to Beauty -- The Green Quilt -- Memere Stories: Howling -- Eating Worms II -- Greeley Park, Nashua-The Tree -- Maura's Bag -- Talk Doc: The Real Work -- Relearning the Habits of Childhood -- Crying for Real -- Horse Dream II -- Math Games -- Meditation-Fern -- Ambien: The Butterfly, Lock, and Key -- SAD -- Nearly Normal -- Memere Stories: Baseball -- Stigma -- What It Is For Happy -- Alnôbawôgan -- Acknowledgments -- Source Acknowledgments Life in the Fast Lane: Am I Paranoid, or Are They Really Out to Get Me? -- Meds -- Arthur Lloyd -- shades -- The Bra Thing -- I Am in Love with Rita Moreno -- Crazy Talk II -- Beautiful Doll -- The Ugly Year -- Krishna, My Love -- Poetry for Breakfast -- Cribbage -- Teaching Castaneda -- Losing Them -- Meditation-The Barren Road -- The Taster -- Horse Dream I -- Wretched -- Baby -- Sunday Afternoon with Betty Grable -- Islands of Sanity: Poetry -- My Bookstore -- The New House at Center Harbor -- When You Can't Keep a Job -- Denied -- Islands of Sanity: Grandsons -- Crazy Talk III
