Skip to content

Bipolar disorder Quote by Roger Kahn

““Worse, Roger erupted into outbursts of uncontrollable rage, without apparent cause. In time I learned that this was one symptom of what therapists formerly described as a manic-depressive personality. Now they call the condition bipolar disorder. Roger sometimes telephoned and began the conversation, “You better listen to me, Dad, or you are one dead man.” Then, half an hour later, “Dad, can we go to the Yankee game tonight?” Bipolar disorder is terrifying, perhaps most of all for the person suffering from it.””

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (7 ratings)

Bipolar disorder Dead man

More by Roger Kahn

“Dear Dad: After twenty-two years in the amusement park, this roller coaster isn’t fun any more, so I’m getting off the ride. Roger”

Image

Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.

Image

You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story…

Image

“Poor kid, I thought, to do this to yourself at twenty-three and leave a note that tells me you could have been a writer.…

Image

“Football is violence and cold weather and college rye. ”

Image

Robinson did not merely play at center stage. He was center stage; and wherever he walked, center stage moved with him.

Image

Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely…

Image

Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.

Image

You may glory in a team triumphant... But you fall in love with a team in defeat.

Image

Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.

Image

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

Image

Dempsey himself said you only spend so much time in the spotlight before they change the bulb. He had a very clever way with…

Image

Explore all 20 Roger Kahn quotes

More Bipolar disorder quotes

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…

Image

“Creativity is closely associated with bipolar disorder. This condition is unique . Many famous historical figures and artists have had this. Yet they have led a full life and contributed so much to the society and world at large. See, you have a gift. People with bipolar disorder are very very sensitive. Much more than ordinary people. They are able…

“Cincinatti was where I learned that running away from your problems has a three-month statute of limitations, a lesson I have found repeatedly to be true. Three months is still a first impression -- of a city, of other people, of yourself in that place. But there comes a point when you can no longer hide who you are, and…

“Suddenly, I’m lighter, only half of who I was.”

Shannon M Mullen

Image

“The longer we spent on Tarawa the more Sylvia and I came to realize that to live on Tarawa is to experience a visceral…

J. Maarten Troost

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…

Image

“I have never seen battles quite as terrifyingly beautiful as the ones I fight when my mind splinters and races, to swallow me into…

Image

“James had taken his own life, but the need to do so was not something easily explained. He had the life he wanted: money, a home, a job, a wife, a good friend. I’d known people who died at their own hand because life became unbearable, or because something happened, something terrible. That wasn’t so for James—there was something inside…

“Unrequited love is the only emotion that allows sane people to taste the “life sentence” of someone with bipolar disorder. The longer they hang…

Shannon L. Alder

Image

“We think that there are people who are normal over here, and then there’s the pathological ones who have depression, anxiety, addiction or schizophrenia or Bipolar disorder or ADHD or any number of other conditions. What I see is a continuum; that we are all on a continuum. These traits to one degree or another are present in almost everybody.…

“Joshua had always been able to get away with things—things for which he should never have been forgiven. He was a lot like James in that respect, for while my husband had bought his grace with his brilliance, Joshua did so with his looks. I considered that a moment, before turning away, suddenly finding I could not bear to look…

“Bipolar illness, manic depression, manic-depressive illness, manic-depressive psychosis. That’s a nice way of saying you will feel so high that no street drug can…

Christine F. Anderson

Image

Browse all 138 Bipolar disorder quotes