“Mental illness is not in the business of making sense of itself.” — Roni Askey-Doran Copy Share Image
Everything in nature is bipolar, or has a positive and a negative pole. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
With someone you like that much, the lows are as low as the highs are high. Does that make sense?' It does.… — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with. — Adam Ant 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
“Bryna is convinced her children are bipolar, and I wasn’t going to swoop into a stranger’s home for an afternoon and tell… — Jon Ronson 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
Being bipolar is a huge exaggeration of your emotions. You can be pretty high and also terribly low, so I've been through… — Margaret Trudeau Copy Share Image
“If every Genius has a touch of Madness, does every Normal person have a touch of Ignorance ?” — Stanley Victor Paskavich 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
With mania, is it dangerous to ride that euphoric feeling. You feel very animated and creative; I would fill journals with drawings.… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
Lithium remains the gold standard, but many drugs now treat bipolar disorder. Medication is critical and should be combined with psychotherapy. Compliance… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I very classically would go into manic phases, which were as dangerous, if not more so, than the depressed phases, and I… — Chris Gethard Copy Share Image
When I harnessed its seemingly uncontrollable might, I realized bipolar disorder's powers could be used for good. My diagnosis didn't have to… — AJ Lee 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
Because of my bipolar disorder, I tend to these mixed states, which are depressed but loud and agitated. So I can be… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
I've got to that point in life when there's very few thrills and lots of pills seems many of us end up… — Stanley Victor Paskavich 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
“Worse, Roger erupted into outbursts of uncontrollable rage, without apparent cause. In time I learned that this was one symptom of what… — Roger Kahn 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
I have often asked myself whether, given the choice, I would choose to have manic-depressive illness. If lithium were not available to… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I compare myself with my former self, not with others. Not only that, I tend to compare my current self with the… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or, eh, a writer without worrying about keeping their… — Nancy Pelosi 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 will… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“I thought I would inaugurate a Bipolar Pride Day. You know, with floats and parades and stuff! On the floats we would… — Carrie Fisher 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
I'm not worried about what's going to happen when I'm thirty, because I am never going to make it to thirty. You… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
My doctor says, 'You've got one of the hardest ones to treat because it's not bipolar, it's not up and down, you're… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
Flippin up my phone, touch screen motorola. They figured I was bipolar the way I sipped that syrup and soda. — Riff Raff Copy Share Image
Sometimes you are hot, sometimes you are cold, sometimes I miss you, and at times I can't stand you; I know your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I actually stopped talking. I actually listened. So I knew that I wasn't all the way manic, because when you're all the… — Terri Cheney Copy Share Image
I know that without treatment I would not have never been able to harness my creativity in such a successful way. — Patty Duke Copy Share Image
“The bright light of brilliance keeps the darkness away, but it can be so very exhausting.” — Fennel Hudson Copy Share Image
In The Greens Are Gone, I play a character that's bipolar, so that was a big step and quite a challenge. — Kaitlyn Dever Copy Share Image
If my revelation of having bipolar II has encouraged one person to seek help, then it is worth it. There is no… — Catherine Zeta-Jones Copy Share Image
To me, Hollywood seems a little bipolar. Things happen; things don't happen. Someone's in a movie; someone's not in a movie. I've… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
A mood disorder is dangerous. You've got to get those dramatic waves of highs and lows stabilized. It's dangerous if you don't. — Jane Pauley Copy Share Image
Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons, but one out of one. — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
