I had developed manic depression [bipolar disorder] ... and the main symptoms the constant voice in the head telling you to kill yourself. — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
I contemplated suicide. My main concern was that I would not make the New York Times obituary page. — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
Everything in nature is bipolar, or has a positive and a negative pole. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The bright light of brilliance keeps the darkness away, but it can be so very exhausting.” — Fennel Hudson Copy Share Image
Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything...I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill.… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
Imagine having love for someone and being told, "You're not allowed to experience that love because you're not allowed to experience pain."… — Paul Dalio Copy Share Image
I think one thing is that anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's depression, bipolar illness or severe… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“Depression is a painfully slow, crashing death. Mania is the other extreme, a wild roller coaster run off its tracks, an eight… — David Lovelace Copy Share Image
“I like my writing career and it's progression, I'd rather be that slow moving tide that turns a mountain into a beautiful… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's depression, bipolar illness or severe anxiety, whatever - actually has a… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
Democrats are fighting for people to be able to quit work while the rest of us pay for their health care while… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
If knowledge and wisdom keep the same pace in development, the adept is enabled to grasp all the laws of the microcosm… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image
A quick glance at the American left reveals a movement in the midst of a nervous breakdown, displaying behavior that goes beyond… — Michael Medved Copy Share Image
“The world is essentially bipolar: driven to extremes but defined by flux. Saints are always just a stumble away from sinners. Nothing… — Terri Cheney Copy Share Image
“In the beginning I revelled in being so rebellious and bad. I had recently discovered the new age book You Can Heal… — Joanne Brodie Copy Share Image
For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet... and hoped that they would go away. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I now know for certain that my mind and emotions, my fix on the real and my family's well-being, depend on just… — David Lovelace Copy Share Image
It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Although it is important to be able to recognise and disclose symptom of physical illnesses or injury, you need to be more… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There's very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I'm lucky enough… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
There are times when I think being bipolar gives me the ability to see and want and write things that other people… — Haroon Moghul Copy Share Image
“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image