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• The quickness and flexibility of a well mind, a belief or hope that things will eventually sort themselves out-these are the resources…
• I think wanting to write is a fundamental sign of disease and discomfort. I don't think people who are comfortable want to…
• But then back on lithium and rotating on the planet at the same pace as everyone else, you find your credit is…
• It was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse. It was…
• There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous.…
• When I am high I couldn't worry about money of I tried. So I don't. The money will come from from somewhere;…
• Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving…
• I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that…
• I have often asked myself whether, given the choice, I would choose to have manic-depressive illness. If lithium were not available to…
• Others would say to me, 'It is only temporary, it will pass, you will get over it,' but of course they had…
• Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and…
• Anyone who suggests that coming back from suicidal despair is a straightforward journey has never taken it.

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