I had developed manic depression [bipolar disorder] ... and the main symptoms the constant voice in the head telling you to kill yourself. — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle. — Patty Duke Copy Share Image
I've had this problem since I was in my 20s. They don't call it manic depression anymore. They call it a bipolar… — Ned Beatty Copy Share Image
I have not been an easygoing guy. I think it's called bipolar manic depression. I've got a rich history of that in… — Ben Stiller Copy Share Image
Manic depression in general is something that runs in my family, and it's something that I battle with. — Laura Jane Grace Copy Share Image
“He doesn't have anything like wisdom of age or hindsight. He's a biased historian of self, an emotional revisionist. We all are,… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
“Manic-depression is a disease that both kills and gives life. Fire, by its nature, both creates and destroys.” — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“I have never seen battles quite as terrifyingly beautiful as the ones I fight when my mind splinters and races, to swallow… — Nicole Lyons Copy Share Image
“Suddenly I wanted to get better. Mania wasn't fun anymore. It wasn't creative or visionary. It was mean parody at best, a… — David Lovelace Copy Share Image
“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“[ ] manic sex isn't really intercourse. It's dicourse, just another way to ease the insatiable need for contact and communication. In… — Terri Cheney Copy Share Image
Manic depression is a type of depression, technically, and it's the opposite of uni-polar. Manic depression is also called bi-polar disorder. Some… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
I finally came to terms with manic depression and lithium. I've taken lithium regularly for the past few years and have had… — Charley Pride Copy Share Image
My mother was quite poorly. She suffered from bipolar disorder, which at that time was called manic depression. She spent a lot… — Caroline Quentin Copy Share Image
If I were to peruse a survey of label options, as they exist now, they either sound like a time bomb disorder… — Paul Dalio Copy Share Image
“It's difficult. I take a low dose of lithium nightly. I take an antidepressant for my darkness because prayer isn't enough. My… — David Lovelace Copy Share Image
“A world without prejudice, stigma, and discrimination against those who have or are thought to have mental illness would be a better… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Love is not enough. It takes courage to grab my father's demon, my own, or - God help me - my child's… — David Lovelace Copy Share Image
“...that manic depression, far from being a liability was an advantage. It was a selected trait. If it wasn't selected for, then… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness. There exists a striking association between creativity and manic depression. Why are more creative… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
“Ruefully, nobody perceives me as exceptionally gifted, intelligent, handsome, or physically strong. My sense of alienation stems from an inferiority complex, depressive… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Compared to bipolar's magic, reality seems a raw deal. It's not just the boredom that makes recovery so difficult, it's the slow… — David Lovelace Copy Share Image
Without medical records that he hasn't released, we can't know whether Gingrich may have inherited his mother's manic depression. Nevertheless, one observes… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
“Depression is a painfully slow, crashing death. Mania is the other extreme, a wild roller coaster run off its tracks, an eight… — David Lovelace Copy Share Image
“When I am high I couldn’t worry about money if I tried. So I don’t. The money will come from somewhere; I… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“Lithium regulates the proteins that control the body’s inner clock. This clock runs, oddly, on DNA, inside special neurons deep in the… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
“I didn't realize there was a ranking." I said. "Sadie frowned. "What do you mean?" "A ranking," I said. "You know, what's… — Michael Thomas Ford Copy Share Image
“It’s a little-known secret, and it should probably stay that way: attempting suicide usually jump-starts your brain chemistry. There must be something… — Terri Cheney Copy Share Image
“For some reason the word “chronic” often has to be explained. It does not mean severe, though many chronic conditions can be… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“I've been accustomed to mysteries, holy and otherwise, since I was a child. Some of us care for orphans, amass fortunes, raise… — David Lovelace Copy Share Image
“Her parents, she said, has put a pinball machine inside her head when she was five years old. The red balls told… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“One of the things that baffles me (and there are quite a few) is how there can be so much lingering stigma… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
My thing is, I've yet to meet a well person. The spectrum is unbelievably wide, the triggers for depression and manic depression. — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
Evidence is strongly suggesting Bipolar Disorder - previously known as Manic Depression - may be dramatically increasing in modern society. — Gordon Parker Copy Share Image
Bipolar expedition is an auto-biographical account spanning 12 years of my life suffering from and surviving clinical and manic depression. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Manic depression's touching my soul. I know what I want, but I just don't know how to go about getting it. — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
I guess I get a little impatient and frustrated when people ask what 'Manic Depression' is about. — Laura Jane Grace Copy Share Image
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