“It’s a little-known secret, and it should probably stay that way: attempting suicide usually jump-starts your brain chemistry. There must be something… — Terri Cheney Depression Copy Share Image
“...love is a chemical imbalance, too. That perilous highs and desperate lows and extravagant flurries of mood are not always symptoms of… — Terri Cheney Heart Copy Share Image
True beauty, I realized,is not the absence of ugliness, but the acceptance of it — Terri Cheney Beauty Copy Share Image
“The memory of sustenance is a terrible thing. Far worse, I think, than actual starving. Starving just kills you. Longing can gnaw… — Terri Cheney Memory Copy Share Image
“These flies were half the size of my fist. They came at you and stuck to you with a single-minded purpose you… — Terri Cheney Bugs Copy Share Image
“Was drug induced happy still happy? Was it the right kind of happy? Did it count?” — Terri Cheney Happiness Copy Share Image
“I actually stopped talking. I actually listened. So I knew that I wasn't all the way manic, because when you're all the… — Terri Cheney Bipolar Copy Share Image
“True beauty is not the absence of ugliness, but the acceptance of it.” — Terri Cheney Beauty Copy Share Image
“[ ] manic sex isn't really intercourse. It's dicourse, just another way to ease the insatiable need for contact and communication. In… — Terri Cheney Communication Copy Share Image
“The world is essentially bipolar: driven to extremes but defined by flux. Saints are always just a stumble away from sinners. Nothing… — Terri Cheney Bipolar Copy Share Image
“Without the darkness, how can we ever hope to understand the light?” — Terri Cheney Darkness Copy Share Image
“Happiness is fine, in its season, but happiness out of season is a sure harbinger of doom.” — Terri Cheney Happiness Copy Share Image
“Stories don't always have to end happily.. Sometimes it's just enough that they end.” — Terri Cheney Storytelling Copy Share Image
“The cruelest curse of the disease is also its most sacred promise: You will not feel this way forever.” — Terri Cheney Copy Share Image
“People always mean well, but they don’t understand that when you’re seriously depressed, suicidal ideation can be the only thing that keeps… — Terri Cheney Copy Share Image
The perilous highs, and desperate lows, and extravagent flurries of mood are not always symptoms of a broken mind, but signs of… — Terri Cheney Bi-polar Copy Share Image
“At least when I was an adult, I had a name for what was wrong with me: manic depression. It's easier to… — Terri Cheney Depression Copy Share Image
“I won't say that writing tamed the Black Beast. It soothed him, though, enough so he agreed simply to occupy a corner… — Terri Cheney Health Copy Share Image
