PRPSN Board member Terri Cheney, a successful entertainment attorney who once represented the likes of Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones, has chronicled her lifelong battle with bipolar disorder in the bestsellers, Manic: A Memoir, and The Dark Side of Innocence: Growing Up Bipolar. She now devotes her advocacy skills to the cause of mental illness. On the boards of directors of several mental health organizations, she also facilitates a weekly community support group at UCLA's Neuropsychiatric Institute. Her writings about bipolar disorder have been featured in the New York Times, the Huffington Post, and countless articles and blogs.

In her most recent article for PsychologyToday.com, My Secret Weapon Against Depression, Terri describes the power of looking her depression in the eye and giving it a name.

You can read all of Terri's Psychology Today articles here: The Bipolar Lens - My view from the rollercoaster.