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Where would the memoir be without bipolar writers? I mean, that's what - that whole oversharing ... AYELET WALDMAN If you think there is something wrong with Bipolar People you might want to Google the Famous Bipola...
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I learned that I suffered from bipolar II disorder, a less serious variant of bipolar I, which was o... AYELET WALDMAN Complaining is bipolar to Appreciating.
BRYAN INDIGO Love is never enough. Madness is enough. It is complete, sufficient unto itself. You can only stand ...
JERRY PINTO Being colonized automatically makes you bipolar.
SHERMAN ALEXIE Who isn’t bipolar these days, we all have ups and downs. Life is a continuous whirlwind.
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PATTY DUKE
I'm bipolar, but I'm not crazy, and I never was. I'm stark raving sane. EMILIE AUTUMN So you might not be able to tease out the difference between a manic-depressive episode and depressi...
JEFFREY HUNT Clear your energy, honor your rhythm, live your vision
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People with bipolar disorder have difficulty with boundaries. CLAIRE DANES If there was one thing I feared as I was growing up . . .
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Being bisexual, being bipolar, being biracial - it's been used to define me, but I am desperate ... HALSEY The black devil and the blue devil: that was how he’d come to think of the two opposing sides of h...
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We're like little kids. We are little kids, but don't tell us that—we're having a fantastic time. ... MARYA HORNBACHER
Sometimes when you have bipolar you have days you are grumpy and not feeling yourself. FRANK BRUNO The pool was steaming in the cold night air, and an electric light glowed under the water.
DANIEL O'MALLEY
Trust me, after the Boy Issues I’ve had, I’m becoming a nun. RACHEL HAWKINS
I get absolutely shitfaced. I am shitfaced and hyper and ten years old. I am having the time of my l... MARYA HORNBACHER
I don't find anything upsetting or gross or degrading about fighting with a mental illness: Bipo... KANGANA RANAUT Happiness given without having to be earned, is purer than what you twist to be what you THINK is ha...
JOHN RICHARD COWGILL Laugh at your past pain. Look towards your future happiness.
JOHN RICHARD COWGILL You have to start every day with self love, not self hate, so you can love others purely.
JOHN RICHARD COWGILL If I ever get rid of my Bi Polar condition we'll be so happy.
STANLEY VICTOR PASKAVICH My psychiatrist said "you're BI Polar. I said "tell us something we don't already know".
STANLEY VICTOR PASKAVICH I've invaded the walls of the asylums with my ink pen. The way they look at mental illness won't be ...
STANLEY VICTOR PASKAVICH The greatest communication barrier known to man is the lack of the common core of experience "When�...
STANLEY VICTOR PASKAVICH Saying I don't take my meds because they make me feel funny. Is like cannibals saying they don't eat...
STANLEY VICTOR PASKAVICH What most people call talent is our way to vent, and if we’re not discovered it will never pay the...
STANLEY VICTOR PASKAVICH Before I die I'd love to see my name on the Famous Bi Polar list I'm not ashamed of my Illness I bel...
STANLEY VICTOR PASKAVICH A vivid Imagination is awesome a Manic Imagination is a curse.
STANLEY VICTOR PASKAVICH Even though I'm sleeping again, everything still feels a little rickety, like I'm here but not quite...
AMY REED Maybe there's a galaxy with a planet that's just a little more tilted, with a sun that shines just a...
AMY REED I feel sorry for every Therapist, Psychologist, and Psychiatrist I've ever met. I know I've put thou...
STANLEY VICTOR PASKAVICH I feel like I'm a snow globe and someone shook me up and now every little piece of me is falling bac...
AMY REED What if talking about your feelings doesn't fix anything? What if what you really need is to make th...
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TIMOTHY PINA
For bipolar in adults, I think there's pretty good agreement about what this looks like. For bip... THOMAS R. INSEL In a matter of years, not decades, the euro will move up alongside the dollar in a bipolar global mo...
FRED BERGSTEN Because I teach and write about depression and bipolar illness, I am often asked what is the most im...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON
I never found out until I went into treatment that I was bipolar. DEMI LOVATO In Serbia a lot of people hate me because they want to westernize, not understanding that the wester...
EMIR KUSTURICA
Sloppy, Mega,” I mutter. I still can’t see. I wipe my bloody nose on my sleeve and reach out to ... KAREN MARIE MONING Bipolar robs you of that which is you. It can take from you the very core of your being and replace ...
ALYSSA REYANS
So when I was 24, someone suggested to me that I was bipolar, and I thought that was ridiculous. I j... CARRIE FISHER
My doctor says, 'You've got one of the hardest ones to treat because it's not bipolar, it's not up a... TRENT REZNOR
Even when I'm in a really great, steady and stable place... I'm clinically bipolar, so that ... MARY LAMBERT Except you cannot outrun insanity, anymore than you can outrun your own shadow.
ALYSSA REYANS I've accepted the fact I have mental illness but when my imaginary friends start calling me crazy th...
STANLEY VICTOR PASKAVICH It turns out that up to 35 percent of people with bipolar disorder also have ADHD.
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KAY REDFIELD JAMISON I WILL be the change in whatever scale of the world I am ready for. This is His plan for me. It come...
JOHN RICHARD COWGILL I am not mentally ill, I AM mentally well. I am not mentally handicapped, I AM more and less mentall...
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At first it's bliss. It's drunken, heady, intoxicating. It swallows the people we were - not particu... MARYA HORNBACHER Normally we think of our home ... as a safe haven. (The suspect) made it a mausoleum for Mr. O?Malle...
ANDREW BAIRD
I have a type of bipolar that swings up and down all day long. There are significant mood swings wit... MARYA HORNBACHER
It seems like everybody's perception of me is very bipolar. To one group, it's overpaid, ove... JEREMY LIN This research is important because diagnosis of juvenile bipolar disorder is controversial - impulsi...
JEFFREY HUNT
I lock eyes with my reflection and don’t look away. The day you look away you start to lose yourse... KAREN MARIE MONING
When I thought I'd killed him, I felt more alone than I've felt in a long time. Like I couldn't stan... KAREN MARIE MONING
You know, veterans come home and they may not be bipolar, but after they've been through a war w... DAVID O. RUSSELL
A judicious man uses statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foi... THOMAS CARLYLE If you know people who are suicidal, or if you know people who are bipolar, depressed, have panic at...
ERIC MILLEGAN Crazy isn't a condition it's a place and it exists somewhere between Love and Oblivion
STANLEY VICTOR PASKAVICH I think one thing is that anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's de...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON I'm not the kind of person who likes to shout out my personal issues from the rooftops, but with my ...
CATHERINE ZETA-JONES
I AM come of a race noted for vigor of fancy and ardor of passion. Men have called me mad; but the q... EDGAR ALLAN POE I’ve just found out I’m allergic to nut-cases
BENNY BELLAMACINA One of things so bad about depression and bipolar disorder is that if you don't have prior aware...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON
There's childhood and early onset bipolar, but it transitions in your early adulthood into somet... MARYA HORNBACHER I just cash in on the fact that I’m good looking, and I’ve got a nice figure and girls like me.
SID VICIOUS
The Soviet Union's termination, which brought to an end the bipolar world, ushered in an era of ... ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI
Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There's very severe conditions of it and there are... STEPHEN FRY
It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me... COCO CHANEL There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON Manic-depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rati...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON I said just let me try one more time and she said, "THAT'S ENOUGH, ISABEL," again, and she could jus...
AMY REED Psychosis can happen out of the blue, to anyone, and no one knows why. Not even the best doctors on ...
JEANNINE GARSEE Which of my feelings are real? Which of the me's is me? The wild, impulsive, chaotic, energetic, and...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON Hunter was bipolar, for crying out loud. He had checked into the nut house on more than one occasion...
CHASE BROOKS
Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent... ADAM ANT I've always been a pretty good researcher," said Bronwyn modestly.
Oh, so that we sha...
DANIEL O'MALLEY You look like Cinderella," said Val in awe.
"Yeah, if she'd been into bondage and had Christian...
DANIEL O'MALLEY She was trying to find the section that described the penalties for treason. She'd browsed through t...
DANIEL O'MALLEY
I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder when I was barely out of my teens. Like our olive skin tone an... AJ LEE We celebrate today the end of the bipolar world symbolized by the Iron Curtain.... It's a great day ...
BRONISLAW GEREMEK You’ve got to reach bedrock to become depressed enough before you are forced to accept the reality...
JONATHAN HARNISCH
It's just another of Robin's sayings. Like, 'Holy strawberries, Batman, we're in a jam! Or, Holy Kle... KAREN MARIE MONING
Cole said, “You’re the only good thing I’ve ever done in my life.” I replied, “I’m sorry... MAGGIE STIEFVATER
I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, e... SøREN KIERKEGAARD I'm heavily medicated yet happily manic, I've been stuck on hypo mania for years.
STANLEY VICTOR PASKAVICH Chopin suffered from melancholia -- what today would be diagnosed as bipolar disorder, ... And by th...
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this song is for the guy who keeps yelling from the balcony, and it's called 'we hate you, please di... 
What kind of tea do you want?"
I always like to write where I'm at in real life into whatever I'm working on. 
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They did not submit to the obvious alternative, which was simply to close the eyes and fall. So easy... 
Virtue should always be colmingled with humor. 
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In yourself right now is all the place you've got. 
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You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You... 
All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. 
Gabrielle chuckled, her dark eyes twinkling. “So he’s been after you, has he? Poor Etta, pursued... 
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Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and ... 
You couldn’t relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. Y... 
They should."
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Your noble friend will not accept pretension but will gently and very firmly confront you with your ... 
you can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care... 
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