Because Quote by Andy Behrman

“Friends and family were convinced I was functioning just fine because I was efficient, productive and successful - who wouldn't be working twenty hour days? I had everybody fooled with my illness.”

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When I'm manic, I'm so awake and alert, that my eyelashes fluttering on the pillow sound like thunder.

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People accuse me of glamorizing mental illness. Looking back sometimes, that's true. But I don't feel guilty.

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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…

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Like Sylvia Plath, Natalie Jeanne Champagne invites you so close to the pain and agony of her life of mental illness and addiction, which…

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In my most psychotic stages, I imagine myself chewing on sidewalks and bulging and swallowing sunlight and clouds.

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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…

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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…

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The guilt I felt for having a mental illness was horrible. I prayed for a broken bone that would heal in six weeks. But…

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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…

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