Bipolar Quote by Peter D. Kramer Download Open image “Suicide is what the death certificate says when one dies of depression.” — Peter D. Kramer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bipolar Certificates Death Depression Dies Inspirational Suicide
But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some… — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
“Suicides do not end their lives because they are weak, mentally ill, or depressed - though certainly they may be all those things. They… — Jill Bialosky Copy Share Image
It is tempting when looking at the life of anyone who has committed suicide to read into the decision to die a vastly complex web of reasons; and, of course, such complexity is warranted. No one illness or event causes suicide; and certainly no one knows all, or perhaps even most, of the motivations behind the killing of the self.… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share
“The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“People with a history of depression often appear happiest right before they commit suicide. Not because their depression has passed, but because they’ve finally… — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
The term suicide is applied to all cases of death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act of the victim himself,… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
“It is not only medicine that maintains well-being. Once we function competently, the world may pitch in.” — Peter D. Kramer Copy Share Image
The success of Prozac says that today's high-tech capitalism values a very different temperament. Confidence, flexibility, quickness, and energy - the positive aspects of… — Peter D. Kramer Copy Share Image
“Depression, in its insidious way, acts as a degenerative disease, harming nerve cells. Like” — Peter D. Kramer Copy Share Image
When a psychiatrist writes a bestseller, he is then urged to write a book of advice. But I think our culture's awash in advice.… — Peter D. Kramer Copy Share Image
Part of the impetus for my writing is the pain I've seen my friends experience both in their marriage and in their dreams. — Peter D. Kramer Copy Share Image
What if Van Gogh had taken medication for his mental illness? Would the world have been deprived of a great artist? — Peter D. Kramer Copy Share Image
Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
Society takes what it wants. The artist himself does not count, because there is no actual existence for the work of art. The work of art is always based on the two poles of the onlooker and the maker, and the spark that comes from the bipolar action gives birth to something - like electricity. But the onlooker has the… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share
It's more common than not that bipolar illness will start in the teens. One of the reasons I spend a lot of time on… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving the lives… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
I was hoping that I could say stuff about mental illness that maybe people didn't know. You know, speak up for bipolar disorder and… — Eric Millegan Copy Share Image
I have never gone for a diagnosis and I don't consider myself to be bipolar, but I have extreme moods. I get heightened. I… — Caroline Quentin Copy Share Image
I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I… — Kevin Gates Copy Share Image
“Insomuch as the structure of this book parallels that of my own mind, it boasts about as much order and linearity as a hallucination.” — Melody Moezzi Copy Share Image
“In our family "whim-wham" is code, a defanged reference to any number of moods and psychological disorders, be they depressive, manic, or schizoaffective. Back in the 1970s and '80s - when they were all straight depression - we called them "dark nights of the soul." St. John of the Cross's phrase ennobled our sickness, spiritualized it. We cut God out… — David Lovelace Copy Share
The Cold War has ended. It's very simple. We are no longer living in a bipolar world. The chances that we will go to… — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
