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- But then back on lithium and rotating on the planet at the same pace as everyone else, you find your credit is decimated, your mortification…
- But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania, when most depressed,…
- Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were.
- Love, like life, is much stranger and far more complicated than one is brought up to believe.
- The ancient dialogue between reason and the senses is almost always more interestingly and passionately resolved in favor of the senses.
- No amount of love can cure madness or unblacken one's dark moods. Love can help, it can make the pain more tolerable, but, always, one…
- I was late to understand that chaos and intensity are no subsitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life. Normal…
- You become aware of an illness by understanding yourself and understanding the meaning that that illness has in your own life, symbolically and, more importantly,…
- Mania is as bad as it gets. If not treated, it will become worse, more frequent, and harder to treat.
- Psychologists, for reasons of clinical necessity or vagaries of temperament, have chosen to dissect and catalog the morbid emotions - depression, anger, anxiety - and…
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