We can get caught up in the provocative details of Chua's book (did she really threaten to burn her daughter's stuffed animals?), or we can use her larger point as an impetus to push ourselves.

我们可以继续在她书中的一些恼人细节上纠缠不清（比如，她是不是真的威胁说要烧掉女儿的填充玩具？） ，也可以利用她的总体观点作为鞭策自己的动力。

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Shanun Carey, 26, of Manchester, N.H., became so manic while breast-feeding that she was "bouncing off the walls," eventually volunteering to clean her neighbors' apartments to burn off excess energy.

肖恩·凯瑞(26岁，新罕布什尔州曼彻斯特人)，因为母乳喂养变得非常疯狂和兴奋，甚至想“兴奋得蹦上墙，”最终她以无偿帮助邻居打扫房间来消耗过多的能量。

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And over the years, she's asked two family friends to promise to burn her journal and sketchbooks should she die unexpectedly.

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"Lee-Anna said that she had been threatened on numerous occasions and on one occasion she had threatened to burn her house down, " Mr Shiers said.

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Some patients become destructive, he says, describing a mother who watched her son shot dead on the street and who then went on to burn down her own home and that of her neighbours.

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