Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny,… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
Society takes what it wants. The artist himself does not count, because there is no actual existence for the work of art.… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
It's more common than not that bipolar illness will start in the teens. One of the reasons I spend a lot of… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
I was hoping that I could say stuff about mental illness that maybe people didn't know. You know, speak up for bipolar… — Eric Millegan 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
I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar,… — Kevin Gates Copy Share Image
“Insomuch as the structure of this book parallels that of my own mind, it boasts about as much order and linearity as… — Melody Moezzi Copy Share Image
“In our family "whim-wham" is code, a defanged reference to any number of moods and psychological disorders, be they depressive, manic, or… — David Lovelace Copy Share Image
The Cold War has ended. It's very simple. We are no longer living in a bipolar world. The chances that we will… — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
Playing an unstable, bipolar, multiple-personality-disorder person is definitely up my alley. — Sebastian Stan Copy Share Image
Living with bipolar has been debilitating and exhausting, accepting it has been relief, embracing it has been the miracle. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“James had taken his own life, but the need to do so was not something easily explained. He had the life he… — Hazel Butler Copy Share Image
“When I was lost in the fog, it was as though nothing else existed. And, afterwards, it seemed incomprehensible that I had… — Alexis Hall Copy Share Image
“Joshua had always been able to get away with things—things for which he should never have been forgiven. He was a lot… — Hazel Butler 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
Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“Was James bipolar?” The tears returned, and I watched her battle them. “We don’t use that word in our family.” I stared… — Hazel Butler Copy Share Image
Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
One of things so bad about depression and bipolar disorder is that if you don't have prior awareness, you don't have any… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Just to let you know I don't post my books and things on the net in hopes of being rich. The reason… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
It's almost like it's my alter ego when I get on stage... I turn into this different person, seriously. Bipolar disorder. I'm… — Britney Spears 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
