Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair. — Steven G. Krantz Copy Share Image
“And when we make choices informed by a depressive state of mind, they're more than likely to keep us stuck in our… — J. Mark G. Williams Copy Share Image
With my art, it's the one thing that I know will outlive me and outlive my feelings. It will outlive my depressive… — Frank Ocean Copy Share Image
Manic depressive people often have incredible energy and a slightly skewed, but nonetheless valid, way of looking at things. — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
Being in good physical shape is the best way to combat depression. You just have endorphins running around your body. It is… — Chris Pratt Copy Share Image
I've never been a depressive, but I felt quite close to the edge at times. But you never know what's around the… — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
“I don't think I was very happy, and the problem with being a thirteen-year-old depressive is that when the rest of life… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I was in danger of having my children taken away from me when I needed five weeks in psychiatric care ... There… — Trisha Goddard Copy Share Image
The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it's now more commonly called, is that it's about mood swings. So, you… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
One of the most common outcomes of a depressive illness is a mistreated body. Now is the time to treat your body… — Harold H. Bloomfield Copy Share Image
I have had manic-depressive illness, also known as bipolar disorder, since I was 18 years old. It is an illness that ensures… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
The first person who ever told me that happiness was work was this manic-depressive artist I knew when I was in my… — Ariel Gore Copy Share Image
My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who… — Kitty Kelley Copy Share Image
Getting my father to throw anything away was pretty difficult. He was not trying to hide who he was, and he said,… — Maya Forbes Copy Share Image
Selling your apartment in New York is like dating a manic-depressive.. you get used to cycles of elation and despondency. Every time… — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
When you are a functioning depressive, you are able to get by, but only just. And there is always this worry that… — Katy Wix 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 don't know what other singers feel when they articulate lyrics, but being an 18-karat manic-depressive and having lived a life of… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
“Sometimes," says a fellow depressive, "I wish I was in a full body cast, with every bone in my body broken. That's… — Sally Brampton Copy Share Image
What I think of sometimes, as I read the new books - do kids really need to see such a seamy side… — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
My dad has some depressive issues, and he's really tough on himself. So sometimes he can say things that are not super… — Maria Bamford Copy Share Image
The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful. In some strange way, I have… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I think that for thousands of years people have made the observation that there are certain kinds of extreme depressive states that… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Work ethic and this determination is all part of escaping the depressive side. Of course I'm manic depressive, maybe not to the… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
I spoke so much about being a manic-depressive. I want to bring everyone back to my earliest memories of this companion of… — Richard Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
I think you have waves of awareness and one of the things that I found with grief was actually - I was… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
