Bipolar Quotes - Page 5

• [Carrie Fisher] could talk about issues that very few people could. She could make her bipolar disorder both real and entertaining. Carrie deserves a lot of credit for giving voice to traumas that few people feel comfortable talking about.

  Tony Taccone

  Real, Talking, Voice

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I don't like a bipolar or a unipolar world. I like a multipolar world but on many occasions people have been surprised that South Africa has not seemed, internationally as well as internally, to take a decision that affirms the true values of your Constitution and the vision of those who were there at the beginning - Madiba himself and others.

  Mary Robinson

  People, Decision, Vision

  Source: www.dailymaverick.co.za

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• I want to apologize for plaguing you with so many telephone calls last November and December. When the 'enthusiasm' is coming on me it is accompanied by a feverish reaching out to my friends. After its over I wince and wither.

  Robert Lowell

  Depression, Want, Enthusiasm

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• I finally came to terms with manic depression and lithium. I've taken lithium regularly for the past few years and have had no further bouts with manic depression.

  Charley Pride

  Depression, Taken, Past

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• I had a very dear friend of mine, ton of potential, and he fell ill with bipolar disorder. And he was put in the penal system. And that was just adding fuel to the fire. He got worse. He came out and he's never been the same since. He can't seem to get his life back. And this is a man who could have had Hollywood in the palm of his hand. A lot of my inspiration and aspirations for wanting to be an actor, I owe to him. Between the disorder and him being put in jail, it just snuffed all of that away from him.

  Michael K. Williams

  Inspiration, Men, Fire

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions.

  Anna Castillo

  Insane, Mental Health, Mental Illness

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• Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through.

  R. D. Laing

  Insane World, Break Through, Insanity

  'The Politics of Experience' (1967) ch. 6

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• I am a pretty good actor. Most of my friendships are based on the fact that I pretend to be outgoing and funny in social situations, but when I get home, I tend to isolate myself because I am actually somewhat bipolar and introverted. So it is really hard for me to invest time into a relationship because I get kind of freaked out by the thought of doing something that part of my mind keeps telling me is "unproductive".

  Reese Roper

  Home, Mind, Kind

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons, but one out of one.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Health, Three, Four

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• Imagine having love for someone and being told, "You're not allowed to experience that love because you're not allowed to experience pain." It's a dilemma that so many people with bipolar can't reconcile. They can't find a way out of it. The truth is that you can have both.

  Paul Dalio

  Pain, Love Is, People

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• For almost every character I've played in the 43 years I've been working as a professional actor, I've found parts of myself. We are all bipolar in the tiniest essence of what it is. We are all multiple personalities, in a sense, and to be healthy mentally, I think, learning what those multiple personalities are and inviting them in your life is really important.

  Sally Field

  Character, Thinking, Years

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• All I ask of Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one degree or another.... The problem is finding smile-inducing evil people, because the evil are the most humorless, though in the movies they frequently get some of the best lines.

  Dean Koontz

  Fate, Evil People, Degrees

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.742, Bantam

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• In The Greens Are Gone, I play a character that's bipolar, so that was a big step and quite a challenge.

  Kaitlyn Dever

  Character, Play, Challenges

  Source: collider.com

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• I have a type of bipolar that swings up and down all day long. There are significant mood swings within a day, within a week, within a month. I go through at least four major episodes a year. That's really the definition of bipolar rapid cycle. But I have ultra-rapid, so I have tiny little episodes all day long.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Swings, Years, Long

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• The idea was to focus on the primal drama of parenthood: the way from moment to moment you swing from comforter to tormentor, just as kids simultaneously light up our lives and drive us nuts. I was trying to capture that strange, bipolar quality of parenthood. For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have.

  Emma Donoghue

  Drama, Kids, Light

  "Emma Donoghue: 'To say Room is based on the Josef Fritzl case is too strong'" by Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2010.

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• I think the English are bipolar. 'We're the greatest, no we're terrible' - that's a constant English struggle. Crime is down, there's little poverty - yet it's always the worst time to have lived here.

  Dara O Briain

  Funny, Struggle, Thinking

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• As lives go, I'll take the quietly desperate over the radically bipolar.

  John Green

  Desperate

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.27, Penguin

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• Even bipolar vampires needed sleep from time to time, and he was well past his recommended safe dosage of stress.

  Rachel Caine

  Stress, Sleep, Past

  Rachel Caine (2012). “Black Dawn: The Morganville Vampires”, p.73, Penguin

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• I was a violent, bipolar, compulsive liar. I was a real American.

  Ben Lerner

  Real, Liars, Violent

  Ben Lerner (2011). “Leaving the Atocha Station”, p.158, Coffee House Press

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• 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 childhood bipolar disorder in the U.S.

  Jon Ronson

  Childhood, Sometimes, Ocd

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• With someone you like that much, the lows are as low as the highs are high. Does that make sense?' It does. It also makes me sound bipolar.' Love will do that to a person.

  Simone Elkeles

  Sound, Doe, Lows

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• Everything in nature is bipolar, or has a positive and a negative pole.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Science, Negative

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.331, Modern Library

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• I never found out until I went into treatment that I was bipolar.

  Demi Lovato

  Found, Treatment

  Demi Lovato (2013). “Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year”, p.23, Macmillan

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• I know I'm not bipolar or schizophrenic, but this career allows you to explore, to take some facets of yourself and spin it.

  Jeff Daniels

  Careers, Facets, Schizophrenic

  "Jeff Daniels Talks RV". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. April 24, 2006.

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• I met a bipolar bear. He laughed, cried, then wanted a threesome.

  Bo Burnham

  Bears, Mets, Threesome

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