In total, I was diagnosed with depression by eight psychotherapists and psychiatrists over a period of thirteen years. Diagnosed wrong. Absolutely wrong. My accurate diagnosis was manic depression, or what we call bipolar disorder today. — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
After graduation in June of 1984, I moved to Manhattan. My first stop was a psychiatrist, who in less than our first fifty-minute session again diagnosed me with depression. — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
My illness is one often characterized by dramatic overspending - in my case through frenzied shopping sprees, credit card abuse, excessive hoarding of unnecessary… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
When I'm manic, I'm so awake and alert, that my eyelashes fluttering on the pillow sound like thunder. — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
Friends and family were convinced I was functioning just fine because I was efficient, productive and successful - who wouldn't be working twenty hour… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
People accuse me of glamorizing mental illness. Looking back sometimes, that's true. But I don't feel guilty. — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
The little depression I experienced during my manic-depression was not like depression as anyone else had ever described it. It was very violent and… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
Like Sylvia Plath, Natalie Jeanne Champagne invites you so close to the pain and agony of her life of mental illness and addiction, which… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
In my most psychotic stages, I imagine myself chewing on sidewalks and bulging and swallowing sunlight and clouds. — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
Weekly $25,000 shopping binges at Barney's and "high end" boutiques for clothes I barely wore were the norm. So were lavish meals with friends… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
I counterfeited Mark Kostabi's artworks. During the eighties, Mark didn't paint his own paintings. Instead, he had other artists painting them, and he just… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
The guilt I felt for having a mental illness was horrible. I prayed for a broken bone that would heal in six weeks. But… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
There are lots of people with mental health disabilities, and that's just the way their life is; it's not like you see it in… — Andy Behrman 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 Emporium on… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
