Let me stop here and correct a very common misconception…

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