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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…
• Like Sylvia Plath, Natalie Jeanne Champagne invites you so close to the pain and agony of her life of mental illness and…
• The guilt I felt for having a mental illness was horrible. I prayed for a broken bone that would heal in six…
• When I'm manic, I'm so awake and alert, that my eyelashes fluttering on the pillow sound like thunder.
• I am a rapid-cycling manic-depressive, bi-polar one disorder, which means I can have thirty or forty episodes a year, and I used…
• Like most manic depressives, some of my symptoms included racing thoughts that I simply had to act upon - flying from New…
• After graduation in June of 1984, I moved to Manhattan. My first stop was a psychiatrist, who in less than our first…
• In total, I was diagnosed with depression by eight psychotherapists and psychiatrists over a period of thirteen years. Diagnosed wrong. Absolutely wrong.…
• My manic depression was ravaging my life, but because nobody could see it, many people thought it was a figment of my…
• My illness is one often characterized by dramatic overspending - in my case through frenzied shopping sprees, credit card abuse, excessive hoarding…
• My ever-present mania meant I was never phased by staying up twenty hours a day or by the different time zones. I…
• In my most psychotic stages, I imagine myself chewing on sidewalks and bulging and swallowing sunlight and clouds.

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