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I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice between seeing a…

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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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The capacity for extravagant emotion that my husband finds so attractive in me can be exhausting, especially to a child. My moods… — Ayelet Waldman
My moods are inversely related to the clarity of the sky. — Glenn Gould
Sophie, my dog, is the high in the highlights of my life. Even through rain, snow, ice, and general laziness, she is… — Lauren Bacall
Weather is real. It is absolutely real: when it rains, it rains – you get wet, there is no question about it.… — Stephen Fry
I can control the weather with my moods. I just can’t control my moods. — Nick Cave
I'm a Gemini and I have a lot of different moods. Sometimes I'm very serious and introspective and pensive, but other times… — Jewel
My practice schedule is not constant and changes a lot and depends on my moods also. — Viswanathan Anand
I have no idea how he knows when I need him. We can go weeks without speaking, and then, when my blue… — David Levithan
I wouldn't say that my emotions are extreme. I'd say they are committed. My moods are the equivalent of Madonna's dancing: inappropriate… — Emma Forrest
I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice… — Kay Redfield Jamison
I tend to follow a very nocturnal sort of existence mainly because I don't much care for sunlight. Bright colors of any… — Glenn Gould
All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot. — Ernst Haas

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