Because I teach and write about depression and bipolar illness, I am often asked what is the most important factor in treating… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Love is great and it does help a lot of people, but a lot of people do have things like depression or… — Maia Szalavitz 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
“You're not bipolar, Mel. You have a bipolar disorder. You also have vibrant blue eyes, a wonderful personality, a tendency to undervalue… — Eric Lindstrom Copy Share Image
“Comparing children of a 45-year-old dad to those of a 24-year-old father it indicated: autism was more than three times as likely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You have a choice when you are bipolar (everybody does)... either blame the world and scream out how messed up your life… — Cori Morton Copy Share Image
“Here's to adrenaline. Here's to dramatic abandon of protocol. Here's to treasured pain and purple rain. Here's to chasing our souls, burning… — Virginia Petrucci Copy Share Image
“The black devil and the blue devil: that was how he’d come to think of the two opposing sides of his nature.… — Grace Callaway 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
“The scientist in me worries that my happiness is nothing more than a symptom of bipolar disease, hypergraphia from a postpartum disorder.… — Alice Weaver Flaherty 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
“Telling a depressed person things like “Pull yourself out of it” is cruel and may reinforce the feelings of worthlessness, guilt, and… — Francis Mark Mondimore Copy Share Image
I had a very dear friend of mine, ton of potential, and he fell ill with bipolar disorder. And he was put… — Michael K. Williams Copy Share Image
“There are people who fantasize about suicide, and paradoxically, these fantasies can be soothing because they usually involve either fantasizing about others'… — Thomas Joiner Copy Share Image
“Bipolar disorder is about buying a dozen bottles of Heinz ketchup and all eight bottles of Windex in stock at the Food… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
“These people all thought they knew him. They believed he was a whore, and sometimes he thought he was too. But he… — Beverly L. Anderson 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
“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 are male and female. We are artists, athletes, students, and business owners. We have depression, DID, PTSD, eating disorders, borderline personalities,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
