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
“Creativity is closely associated with bipolar disorder. This condition is unique . Many famous historical figures and artists have had this. Yet… — Preeti Shenoy Copy Share Image
“Cincinatti was where I learned that running away from your problems has a three-month statute of limitations, a lesson I have found… — Stacy Pershall Copy Share Image
“The longer we spent on Tarawa the more Sylvia and I came to realize that to live on Tarawa is to experience… — J. Maarten Troost 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 seen battles quite as terrifyingly beautiful as the ones I fight when my mind splinters and races, to swallow… — Nicole Lyons 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
“Unrequited love is the only emotion that allows sane people to taste the “life sentence” of someone with bipolar disorder. The longer… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“We think that there are people who are normal over here, and then there’s the pathological ones who have depression, anxiety, addiction… — Gabor Maté 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
“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
“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… — Christine F. Anderson Copy Share Image
“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… — Amy Reed Copy Share Image
In late 2011, I watched a documentary by Stephen Fry called 'The Secret Life Of The Manic Depressive.' He shared his story… — Tom Fletcher 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
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
“My psychiatrist said I had charisma so at least I'm certified” — Stanley Victor Paskavich 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
“Bipolar robs you of that which is you. It can take from you the very core of your being and replace it… — Alyssa Reyans Copy Share Image
I'm pretty sure it's called PMS because thats easier to say than estrogen induced manic depressive bipolar disorder prone to fits of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Her parents, she said, has put a pinball machine inside her head when she was five years old. The red balls told… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“I feel like I'm a snow globe and someone shook me up and now every little piece of me is falling back… — Amy Reed Copy Share Image
