Terri Cheney is the author of Manic: A Memoir (Morrow/HarperCollins in February, 2008). UCLA has a really good entertainment law program, so I chose to go to law school there. Join Facebook to connect with Terri Cheney and others you may know. View the profiles of people named Terri Cheney. After years of secretly struggling with manic depression, Ms. Cheney decided to leave the law and devote her advocacy skills toward a cause that is closer to her heart: writing about her illness, and encouraging the mentally ill to tell their own stories. They lived out here. After graduating Vassar College with honors, Ms. Cheney attended UCLA School of Law. Terri's writings and commentary about bipolar disorder have also been featured in the ... and attended UCLA School of Law. Cheney: My parents got divorced, and my mother was having a really hard time alone. As I was going into law, I thought I should do entertainment law, because I like going to the movies and I like movie stars. ... Vassar was the same, where I thrived academically despite my mental illness.