I knew I was a manic depressive when I was 13 or 14, and I loved it. I always told people what… — Richard Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania,… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
All I ask of Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
We're all well-acquainted with depression, we all know what the low moods are, but the mania was not something I knew much… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Being Bipolar and manic sometimes at night a line from the original movie 'Journey to the Center of the Earth' comes to… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
Bipolar disorder is a scary disease, but it is manageable. And I feel blessed that I was able to get the right… — Eric Millegan Copy Share Image
I learned that I suffered from bipolar II disorder, a less serious variant of bipolar I, which was once known as manic… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Being bipolar and an addict and an alcoholic I have to keep myself very busy. I don't sleep. I am lucky if… — David Feherty Copy Share Image
When I was diagnosed, I believed my illness would be my great, lifelong weakness. Bipolar disorder was to be my impenetrable prison,… — AJ Lee Copy Share Image
[Carrie Fisher] could talk about issues that very few people could. She could make her bipolar disorder both real and entertaining. Carrie… — Tony Taccone Copy Share Image
When a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce in the same individual, we have the best possible condition for the kind… — William James Copy Share Image
“The way the diagnosis is being made in America was not something we intended,” he said. “Kids with extreme irritability and moodiness… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
The smartest thing I did was to stop going online. I'm the sort of person who will just look for the negative… — Catherine Zeta-Jones Copy Share Image
Seeing movies about mental illness, a lot of falseness has leapt out at me over the years... So I just focused on… — Maya Forbes Copy Share Image
There is no common standard for education about diagnosis. Distinguishing between bipolar depression and major depressive disorder, for example, can be difficult,… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
My mother struggled immensely with mental illness, and so did I. She grew up bipolar, but it was never diagnosed nor recognized.… — Petra Collins Copy Share Image
Being both more systematically brutal than chimps and more empathetic than bonobos, we are by far the most bipolar ape. Our societies… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
The patients often try to starve themselves, to hang themselves, to cut their arteries; they beg that they may be burned, buried… — Emil Kraepelin Copy Share Image
So when I was 24, someone suggested to me that I was bipolar, and I thought that was ridiculous. I just thought… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
I have never gone for a diagnosis and I don't consider myself to be bipolar, but I have extreme moods. I get… — Caroline Quentin Copy Share Image
“Here's to adrenaline. Here's to dramatic abandon of protocol. Here's to treasured pain and purple rain. Here's to chasing our souls, burning… — Virginia Petrucci Copy Share Image
I gave myself the nickname 'Bipolar Rock N' Roller' way back in the 1990s, when - as much as we don't talk… — Mauro Ranallo Copy Share Image
A very common symptom in maniacal conditions is erotic excitement. This varies from mere coquetry, a somewhat extended application of the command… — Daniel Hack Tuke Copy Share Image
I knew something was wrong; I was constantly tired, and I'd developed numbness on my left side. I'd also become paranoid that… — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
I am a pretty good actor. Most of my friendships are based on the fact that I pretend to be outgoing and… — Reese Roper Copy Share Image
You have a choice when you are bipolar (everybody does)... either blame the world and scream out how messed up your life… — Cori Morton Copy Share Image
“The black devil and the blue devil: that was how he’d come to think of the two opposing sides of his nature.… — Grace Callaway Copy Share Image
It seems like everybody's perception of me is very bipolar. To one group, it's overpaid, overrated; to another group, it's underpaid, underrated,… — Jeremy Lin Copy Share Image
“I don't need people, love or sex. Neither money, clothes or cars. The hate I gained was most needed. Don't understand me… — Mario Fingarov Copy Share Image
The little depression I experienced during my manic-depression was not like depression as anyone else had ever described it. It was very… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
“You're not bipolar, Mel. You have a bipolar disorder. You also have vibrant blue eyes, a wonderful personality, a tendency to undervalue… — Eric Lindstrom Copy Share Image
Mental illness is a very powerful thing. If it is with you it is probably going to be there until the day… — Frank Bruno Copy Share Image
“She was a free bird one minute: queen of the world and laughing. The next minute she would be in tears like… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Whatever your personality was before, an illness makes it that plus a thousand. I'm a very binary person in a bad way… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character… — Pete Earley Copy Share Image
I wish I had never got manic depression. When I was in junior high, I didn't know what was the matter with… — Daniel Johnston Copy Share Image
“I like my writing career and it's progression, I'd rather be that slow moving tide that turns a mountain into a beautiful… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
I get lots of awards for being mentally ill. Apparently, I am better at being mentally ill than almost anything else I've… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
For bipolar in adults, I think there's pretty good agreement about what this looks like. For bipolar in children, there is some… — Thomas R. Insel Copy Share Image
My father, Eric, was bipolar and as he got older, his illness affected the family more and more. My mother was magnificent… — Rick Stein Copy Share Image
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