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I am one of millions who have been treated for depression and gotten well; I was lucky enough to have a psychiatrist well versed in…

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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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