Bipolar Quotes

• Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

  Ray Bradbury

  Insanity, Crazy People, Insane

  Ray Bradbury (2000). “Bradbury Stories”

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• Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

  Mason Cooley

  Depression, Courage, Bed

  "City Aphorisms: First Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1984.

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• There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

  Aristotle

  Funny, Depression, Creativity

  "The Anatomy of Melancholy". Book by Robert Burton, 1621.

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• Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.

  David Foster Wallace

  Secret, Different, Way

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• Manic-depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live. It is an illness that is biological in its origins, yet one that feels psychological in the experience of it, an illness that is unique in conferring advantage and pleasure, yet one that brings in its wake almost unendurable suffering and, not infrequently, suicide.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Suicide, Unique, Suffering

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• I have had manic-depressive illness, also known as bipolar disorder, since I was 18 years old. It is an illness that ensures that those who have it will experience a frightening, chaotic and emotional ride. It is not a gentle or easy disease.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Emotional, Years, Disease

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• Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.

  Carrie Fisher

  Depression, Teacher, Challenges

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• Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.

  Adam Ant

  Finals, Needs, Attention

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• The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it's now more commonly called, is that it's about mood swings. So, you have an elevated mood. When people think of manic depression, they only hear the word depression. They think one's a depressive. The point is, one's a manic-depressive.

  Stephen Fry

  Thinking, Swings, People

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• There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Suffering, Needs, Helping

  "Catherine Zeta-Jones: 'There Is No Need to Suffer Silently'". People Magazine Interview, people.com. April 20, 2011.

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  I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

  George Best

  Soccer, Sports, Football

  "Best: Decline of the golden boy". news.bbc.co.uk. June 14, 2005.

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• Being both more systematically brutal than chimps and more empathetic than
  bonobos, we are by far the most bipolar ape. Our societies are never completely peaceful, never completely competitive, never ruled by sheer selfishness, and never perfectly moral.

  Frans de Waal

  Peaceful, Selfishness, Apes

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• Mental illness is a very powerful thing. If it is with you it is probably going to be there until the day you die. I am trying so hard to break mine, but it is not easy. It is my toughest fight ever.

  Frank Bruno

  Powerful, Fighting, Trying

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• I'm not the kind of person who likes to shout out my personal issues from the rooftops, but with my bipolar becoming public, I hope fellow sufferers will know it's completely controllable. I hope I can help remove any stigma attached to it, and that those who don't have it under control will seek help with all that is available to treat it.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Issues, Rooftops, Likes

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• Bipolar depression really got my life off track, but today I'm proud to say I am living proof that someone can live, love, and be well with bipolar disorder when they get the education, support and treatment they need.

  Demi Lovato

  Track, Support, Needs

  "Demi Lovato Joins Tour To Raise Awareness About Mental Illness" by Ariel Nagi, www.seventeen.com. August 18, 2014.

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• If you have a friend or a family member who's bipolar, or has panic attack disorder, or is depressed, read up on it a little bit so you can get to know where they're coming from.

  Eric Millegan

  Littles, Panic Attacks, Members

  "Eric Millegan on Living (and Acting) with Bipolar Disorder: Part 2" by Jamie Frevele, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I'm bipolar, but I'm not crazy, and I never was. I'm stark raving sane.

  Emilie Autumn

  Crazy, Starks, Sane

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• If my revelation of having bipolar II has encouraged one person to seek help, then it is worth it. There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Suffering, Needs, Helping

  "Catherine Zeta-Jones: 'There Is No Need to Suffer Silently'". People Interview, people.com. April 20, 2011.

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• Soon madness has worn you down. It’s easier to do what it says than argue. In this way, it takes over your mind. You no longer know where it ends and you begin. You believe anything it says. You do what it tells you, no matter how extreme or absurd. If it says you’re worthless, you agree. You plead for it to stop. You promise to behave. You are on your knees before it, and it laughs.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Believe, Laughing, Promise

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• 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 didn't work for me, the answer would be a simple no... and it would be an answer laced with terror. But lithium does work for me, and therefore I can afford to pose the question. Strangely enough, I think I would choose to have it. It's complicated.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Simple, Thinking, Choices

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.133, Pan Macmillan

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• Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Desire, Erode, Behavior

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• We of the craft are all crazy.

  Lord Byron

  Crazy, Crafts

  " New study claims to find genetic link between creativity and mental illness" by Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2015.

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• The smartest thing I did was to stop going online. I'm the sort of person who will just look for the negative - Michael really can't understand it, but that's just the way I am. And with my bipolar thing, that's poison. So I just stopped. Cold turkey. And it's so liberating.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Turkeys, Negative, Poison

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• Nothing in my life has ever made me want to commit suicide more than people's reaction to my trying to commit suicide.

  Emilie Autumn

  Suicide, Suicidal, People

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• I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that was strangely heartening.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Suicide, Optimist, Temperament

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2011). “Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide”, p.309, Vintage

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