Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture. — Benjamin Rush 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
“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
Had [Winston Churchill] been a stable and equable man, he could never have inspired the nation. In 1940, when all the odds… — Anthony Storr 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
Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of… — Adam Ant Copy Share Image
I have trouble with letting go. That's my problem. Anybody that has extreme highs and extreme lows is bipolar to any psychologist… — Kevin Gates Copy Share Image
Mental illness, of course, is not literally a 'thing' - or physical object - and hence it can 'exist' only in the… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
I had some experience in dealing with people who have mental illness and depression, but I didn't see the signs in myself.… — Clara Hughes Copy Share Image
“Sensitive people usually love deeply and hate deeply. They don't know any other way to live than by extremes because thier emotional… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I actually think in some ways that it might be more challenging to be bipolar because it's so mercurial - it's so… — Claire Danes 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
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
Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character… — Pete Earley 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
As lives go, I'll take the quietly desperate over the radically bipolar. — John Green 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
It seems when the madness sets in the mix of wealth and seductiveness, it's never the first generation that acquired the wealth;… — Lawrence Douglas Copy Share Image
I don't want to be caught ... ashamed of anything. And because generally someone who has bipolar doesn't have just bipolar, they… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
When I taught writing classes to psychiatric patients, I met people whose stories of manic highs and immobilizing lows appeared to be… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image