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• Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

  Voltaire

  Depression, Thinking, Madness

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

  Patty Duke

  Weight, Disease, Gains

  Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.152, Bantam

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• Mental illness, of course, is not literally a "thing" - or physical object - and hence it can "exist" only in the same sort of way in which other theoretical concepts exist.

  Thomas Szasz

  Way, Mental Illness, Mentally Ill

  "The Myth of Mental Illness" by Thomas Szasz in "American Psycholigist", Volume 15 (pp. 113-118), psychclassics.yorku.ca. 1960.

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• My doctor says, 'You've got one of the hardest ones to treat because it's not bipolar, it's not up and down, you're always just about a quart low in the mood department.

  Trent Reznor

  Doctors, Mood, Lows

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• One of things so bad about depression and bipolar disorder is that if you don't have prior awareness, you don't have any idea what hit you.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Ideas, Awareness, Disorder

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• I learned that I suffered from bipolar II disorder, a less serious variant of bipolar I, which was once known as manic depression. The information was naturally frightening; up to 1 in 5 people with bipolar disorder will commit suicide, and rates may even be higher for those suffering from bipolar II.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Suicide, People, Suffering

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• People with bipolar disorder have difficulty with boundaries.

  Claire Danes

  People, Boundaries, Disorder

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• When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Depression, Reality, Mad

  Marya Hornbacher (2009). “Madness: A Bipolar Life”, p.118, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I know that without treatment I would not have never been able to harness my creativity in such a successful way.

  Patty Duke

  Creativity, Successful, Able

  Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.201, Bantam

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• I'm going to be a superstar musician, kill myself, and go out in a flame of glory.

  Kurt Cobain

  Flames, Musician, Want

  "Cobain Book Shows Singer's Life 'Heavier' Than Most Imagined" by Archive -Teri-Vanhorn, www.mtv.com. September 01, 2001.

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• Mental illness is the last frontier. The gay thing is part of everyday life now on a show like 'Modern Family,' but mental illness is still full of stigma. Maybe it is time for that to change.

  Eric McCormack

  Gay, Modern Family, Everyday

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• Then I overdosed at 28, at which point I began to accept the bipolar diagnosis.

  Carrie Fisher

  Diagnosis, Accepting

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• Because of my bipolar disorder, I tend to these mixed states, which are depressed but loud and agitated. So I can be terribly irritable. I go to cognitive behavioral therapy in order not to yell at my children.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Children, Order, States

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• I've had this problem since I was in my 20s. They don't call it manic depression anymore. They call it a bipolar disorder, and I'm a Type 2?

  Ned Beatty

  Depression, Problem, Type

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• Manic depression's touching my soul. I know what I want, but I just don't know how to go about getting it.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Depression, Soul, Touching

  Jimi Hendrix, Roger St. Pierre (1986). “Jimi Hendrix: recorded poems”

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• I'm not the kind of person who gives up without a fight.

  Michael Landon

  Giving Up, Fighting, Rooftops

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• It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.

  Stephen Fry

  Men, Thinking, Virginia

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• Holding back our thoughts, feelings and behaviors can place people at risk for minor and major diseases.

  James W. Pennebaker

  People, Feelings, Risk

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• Weekly $25,000 shopping binges at Barney's and "high end" boutiques for clothes I barely wore were the norm. So were lavish meals with friends where I picked up $1000 tabs. These high-priced activities were within my limits because I was extremely successful financially, a testament to my manic behavior, not to mention my involvement in illegal activities.

  Andy Behrman

  Successful, Illegal Activities, Shopping

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• When I am high I couldn't worry about money of I tried. So I don't. The money will come from from somewhere; I am entitled; God will provide. Credit cards are disastrous, personal checks worse. Unfortunately, for manics anyway, mania is a natural extension of the economy.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Worry, Cards, Credit

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.49, Pan Macmillan

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• Where would the memoir be without bipolar writers? I mean, that's what - that whole oversharing thing is really a very clear symptom of bipolar disorder. And I'm not saying that every, you know, I'm not accusing every memoirist of being bipolar. But I think in a way it's kind of a gift.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Mean, Thinking, Way

  "Ayelet Waldman: On Feeling Like A 'Bad Mother'". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 4, 2010.

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• I compare myself with my former self, not with others. Not only that, I tend to compare my current self with the best I have been, which is when I have been midly manic. When I am my present "normal" self, I am far removed from when I have been my liveliest, most productive, most intense, most outgoing and effervescent. In sort, for myself, I am a hard act to follow.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Inspirational, Self, Normal

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness”, p.59, Pan Macmillan

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• We say that one gets cancer, or a cold, or kidney disease. One would
  never think to say that one is cancer. But we say that one is depressed,
  or bipolar, or schizophrenic. A disease of the body is a condition. But
  a disease of the mind, we think, is a state of being. We no longer
  believe, as we did 250 years ago, that the mentally ill are animals,
  but we are not yet ready to grant that they are fully human either.

  Paul Gruchow

  Cancer, Believe, Thinking

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• If I were to peruse a survey of label options, as they exist now, they either sound like a time bomb disorder or manic depression or Bipolar divide or mental illness. How can I find an identity in that? It certainly isn't something I can bring up in conversation, without a reaction of judgement or even fear.

  Paul Dalio

  Judgement, Identity, Sound

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I want people to see the beauty of that condition through the eyes of the characters. In doing that, they can allow people who have the condition to be more accepting of it, and to be open about it. That would be a contribution to the people who have it, and considering that 38% of the Pulitzer Prize winning poets are Bipolar, to think about how much these individuals have contributed to the human spirit.

  Paul Dalio

  Character, Eye, Winning

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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