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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…
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Like Sylvia Plath, Natalie Jeanne Champagne invites you so close to the pain and agony of her life of mental illness and…
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The guilt I felt for having a mental illness was horrible. I prayed for a broken bone that would heal in six…
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When I'm manic, I'm so awake and alert, that my eyelashes fluttering on the pillow sound like thunder.
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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…
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Like most manic depressives, some of my symptoms included racing thoughts that I simply had to act upon - flying from New…
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After graduation in June of 1984, I moved to Manhattan. My first stop was a psychiatrist, who in less than our first…
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In total, I was diagnosed with depression by eight psychotherapists and psychiatrists over a period of thirteen years. Diagnosed wrong. Absolutely wrong.…
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My manic depression was ravaging my life, but because nobody could see it, many people thought it was a figment of my…
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My illness is one often characterized by dramatic overspending - in my case through frenzied shopping sprees, credit card abuse, excessive hoarding…
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My ever-present mania meant I was never phased by staying up twenty hours a day or by the different time zones. I…
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In my most psychotic stages, I imagine myself chewing on sidewalks and bulging and swallowing sunlight and clouds.
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What is light, if Sylvia be not seen? What is joy if Sylvia be not by?
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People who think that Sylvia Plath was a poor, sensitive poet are not getting that she had great amounts of ambition and…
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In the country, I stopped being a person who, in the words of Sylvia Boorstein, startles easily. I grew calmer, but beneath…
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The doctor's name was Sylvia. I told her she'd have a problem with me because Sylvia was my mother's name.
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Beachy Head brims with electrical currents flying backwards and forwards, with the force of poems that have been well fought out and…
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Like Sylvia Plath, Natalie Jeanne Champagne invites you so close to the pain and agony of her life of mental illness and…
— Andy Behrman
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Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 -…
— Anne Stevenson
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Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four…
— Dave Van Ronk
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I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to…
— Francesca Lia Block
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Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them.
— Joni Mitchell
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Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath…
— Ayelet Waldman
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I'm hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings.…
— Louise Jameson
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