Buckaroo-banzai Quote by Earl Mac Rauch

“It's difficult. I take a low dose of lithium nightly. I take an antidepressant for my darkness because prayer isn't enough. My therapist hears…

— David Lovelace

Lithium remains the gold standard, but many drugs now treat bipolar disorder. Medication is critical and should be combined with psychotherapy. Compliance is a…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

Lithium prevents my seductive but disastrous highs, diminishes my depressions, clears out the wool and webbing from my disordered thinking, slows me down, gentles…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

But then back on lithium and rotating on the planet at the same pace as everyone else, you find your credit is decimated, your…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

Women who put on a few pounds after starting lithium sometimes say the cure is worse than the disease. The weight gain shoots them…

— Patty Duke

I have often asked myself whether, given the choice, I would choose to have manic-depressive illness. If lithium were not available to me, or…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

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

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“Krissa had since learned a great deal about the drug Lithium and was now aware of how controversial it was.”

— Kathleen Gilles Seidel

“I’m not bipolar, I’ve just had a bipolar life foisted upon me.”

— Daniel O'Malley