Quotes of: Bipolar Keyword

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...

Ayelet Waldman

Bipolar robs you of that which is you. It can take from you the very core of your being and replace it with something that is completely opposite of who and what you truly are. Because my bipolar went untreated for so long, I spent many years looking...

Letters from a Bipolar Mother

Depression is a painfully slow, crashing death. Mania is the other extreme, a wild roller coaster run off its tracks, an eight ball of coke cut with speed. It's fun and it's frightening as hell. Some patients - bipolar type I - experience both extrem...

Scattershot: My Bipolar Family

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 ...

Ayelet Waldman

I’m not bipolar, I’ve just had a bipolar life foisted upon me.

The Rook

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 compete and you will feel so low that you wish you had been hit by a Mack truck inste...

Forever Different: A Memoir of One Woman's Journey Living with Bipolar Disorder

It is in my head! That's why it's called Mental Illness.

I'm Bipolar And I Know It

Mental illness is not in the business of making sense of itself.

I'm Bipolar And I Know It

Except you cannot outrun insanity, anymore than you can outrun your own shadow.

Letters from a Bipolar Mother

When it comes to most true bipolars, consider this thought: Genius by birth, bipolar by design.

Stantasyland: Quips Quotes and Quandaries

Falling in love happens so suddenly that it seems, all at once, that you have always been in love.

Madness: A Bipolar Life

Just to let you know I don't post my books and things on the net in hopes of being rich. The reason is. "I am a person with Bipolar Disorder" and they're are a lot of great minds on the "Famous Bipolar" list that died penniless. If I do the same it's...

Return to Stantasyland

I've been accustomed to mysteries, holy and otherwise, since I was a child. Some of us care for orphans, amass fortunes, raise protests or Nielsen ratings; some of us take communion or whiskey or poison. Some of us take lithium and antidepressants, a...

Scattershot: My Bipolar Family

I get absolutely shitfaced. I am shitfaced and hyper and ten years old. I am having the time of my life.

Madness: A Bipolar Life

For bipolar in adults, I think there's pretty good agreement about what this looks like. For bipolar in children, there is some considerable debate about where are the boundaries. At the mild end, are these just kids who are active? Is this the class...

Thomas R. Insel

Compared to bipolar's magic, reality seems a raw deal. It's not just the boredom that makes recovery so difficult, it's the slow dawning pain that comes with sanity - the realization of illnesss, the humiliating scenes, the blown money and friendship...

Scattershot: My Bipolar Family

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.

Madness: A Bipolar Life

But new love only lasts so long, and then you crash back into the real people you are, and from as high as we were, it's a very long fall, and we hit the ground with a thud.

Madness: A Bipolar Life

My brain sometimes departs from the agreed-upon reality, and my private reality is a very lonely place. But in the end, I'm not sure I wish I'd never gone there.

Madness: A Bipolar Life

Because I'm not, in fact, depressed, Prozac makes me manic and numb - one of the reasons I slice my arm in the first place is that I'm coked to the gills on something utterly wrong for what I have.

Madness: A Bipolar Life

Because I teach and write about depression and bipolar illness, I am often asked what is the most important factor in treating bipolar disorder. My answer is competence. Empathy is important, but competence is essential.

Kay Redfield Jamison