My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle. — Patty Duke Copy Share Image
I think my real depressions started when I was about 16 and doing The Patty Duke Show. I would go to bed… — Patty Duke Copy Share Image
I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date… — Patty Duke Copy Share Image
I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What's missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became… — Patty Duke Copy Share Image
I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination — Patty Duke Copy Share Image
If I have any message for others, it is to go for help early and not to be a resistant patient — Patty Duke Copy Share Image
The mania started with insomnia and not eating and being driven, driven to find an apartment, driven to see everybody, driven to do New… — Patty Duke Copy Share Image
I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now. — Patty Duke Copy Share Image
The panic attacks - I still have them. They started when I was around 8. They always have to do with my death — Patty Duke Copy Share Image
Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries. — Patty Duke Copy Share Image
I know that without treatment I would not have never been able to harness my creativity in such a successful way. — Patty Duke Copy Share Image
I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in… — Patty Duke Copy Share Image
