I feel like I'm a snow globe and someone shook me up and…

Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with…

— Jon Ronson

“Creativity is closely associated with bipolar disorder. This condition is unique . Many famous historical figures and artists have had this. Yet they have…

— Preeti Shenoy

“Cincinatti was where I learned that running away from your problems has a three-month statute of limitations, a lesson I have found repeatedly to…

— Stacy Pershall

“Suddenly, I’m lighter, only half of who I was.”

— Shannon M Mullen

“The longer we spent on Tarawa the more Sylvia and I came to realize that to live on Tarawa is to experience a visceral…

— J. Maarten Troost

I was hoping that I could say stuff about mental illness that maybe people didn't know. You know, speak up for bipolar disorder and…

— Eric Millegan

“I have never seen battles quite as terrifyingly beautiful as the ones I fight when my mind splinters and races, to swallow me into…

— Nicole Lyons

When I harnessed its seemingly uncontrollable might, I realized bipolar disorder's powers could be used for good. My diagnosis didn't have to be an…

— AJ Lee

“James had taken his own life, but the need to do so was not something easily explained. He had the life he wanted: money,…

— Hazel Butler

“Unrequited love is the only emotion that allows sane people to taste the “life sentence” of someone with bipolar disorder. The longer they hang…

— Shannon L. Alder

“We think that there are people who are normal over here, and then there’s the pathological ones who have depression, anxiety, addiction or schizophrenia…

— Gabor Maté

“Joshua had always been able to get away with things—things for which he should never have been forgiven. He was a lot like James…

— Hazel Butler

“Worse, Roger erupted into outbursts of uncontrollable rage, without apparent cause. In time I learned that this was one symptom of what therapists formerly…

— Roger Kahn

“Bipolar illness, manic depression, manic-depressive illness, manic-depressive psychosis. That’s a nice way of saying you will feel so high that no street drug can…

— Christine F. Anderson

“Even though I'm sleeping again, everything still feels a little rickety, like I'm here but not quite here, like I'm just a stand-in for…

— Amy Reed