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#1

“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 extremes; other - bipolar type II - suffer depression almost exclusively. But the "mixed state," the mercurial churning of both high and low, is the most dangerous, the most deadly. Suicide too often results from the impulsive nature and physical speed of psychotic mania coupled with depression's paranoid self-loathing.”
― David Lovelace, Scattershot: My Bipolar Family

tags: bipolar, depression, manic-depression, suicide

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#2

“Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum.”
― Vincent van Gogh

tags: art, bipolar, depression, manic-depression, meditation

184 likes

#3

“I have never seen battles quite as terrifyingly beautiful as the ones I fight when my mind splinters and races, to swallow me into my own madness, again.”
― Nicole Lyons, Hush

tags: bipolar-disorder, bipolar-quotes, chaos, creativity, depression-quotes, life, life-quotes, madness, madness-and-sanity, manic-depression, mental-health-awareness, mental-health-quotes, mental-illness, mental-illness-quotes, mind, mindfulness, mood-disorders, paranoia, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes-about-life, racing-thoughts, self-deception, self-destruction, stigma, stillness-of-the-mind, suicidal-ideation, suicidal-thoughts

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#4

“I know the empathy borne of despair; I know the fluidity of thought, the expansive, even beautiful, mind that hypomania brings, and I know this is quicksilver and precious and often it's poison. There has always existed a sort of psychic butcher who works the scales of transcendence, who weighs out the bloody cost of true art.”
― David Lovelace, Scattershot: My Bipolar Family

tags: art, bipolar, hypomania, manic-depression, mental-illness

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#5

“Suddenly I wanted to get better. Mania wasn't fun anymore. It wasn't creative or visionary. It was mean parody at best, a cheap chemical trick. I needed to stop and get better. I'd take whatever they gave me, I pledged silently. I'd take Trilafon or Thorazine or whatever. I just wanted to sleep.”
― David Lovelace, Scattershot: My Bipolar Family

tags: bipolar, mania, manic-depression, medication

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#6

“It's difficult. I take a low dose of lithium nightly. I take an antidepressant for my darkness because prayer isn't enough. My therapist hears confession twice a month, my shrink delivers the host, and I can stand in the woods and see the world spark.”
― David Lovelace, Scattershot: My Bipolar Family

tags: bipolar, depression, lithium, manic-depression, medication, therapy

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#7

“[ ] manic sex isn't really intercourse. It's dicourse, just another way to ease the insatiable need for contact and communication. In place of words, I simply spoke with my skin.”
― Terri Cheney, Manic: A Memoir

tags: communism, mania, manic, manic-depression, sex, skin, spoke

60 likes

#8

“Love is not enough. It takes courage to grab my father's demon, my own, or - God help me - my child's and strap it down and stop its mad jig; to sit in a row of white rooms filled with pills and clubbed dreamers and shout: stop smiling, shut up; shut up and stop laughing; you're sitting in hell. Stop preaching; stop weeping. You are a manic-depressive, always. your life is larger than most, unimaginable. You're blessed; just admit it and take the damn pill.”
― David Lovelace, Scattershot: My Bipolar Family

tags: bipolar, love, manic-depression, medication, mental-disorders

54 likes

#9

“the intensity, glory, and absolute assuredness if my mind's flight made it very difficult for me to believe once i was better, that the illness was one i should willingly give up....moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow can be seen as temporary, even understandable reactions to what life has dealt....even though the depressions that inevitably followed nearly cost me my life.”
― kay redfield jamison

tags: manic-depression, mental-illness

32 likes

#10

“I am the moon,
and sometimes I shine full in my dark,
and sometimes I shine half in my dark,
and sometimes I am the darkness myself.”
― Juansen Dizon, Confessions of a Wallflower

tags: confessions-of-a-wallflower, darkness, darkness-quotes, depression, depression-poem, depression-quotes, juansen-dizon, manic-depression, moon, moon-quotes

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#11

“I now know for certain that my mind and emotions, my fix on the real and my family's well-being, depend on just a few grams of salt. But treatment's the easy part. Without honesty, without a true family reckoning, that salt's next to worthless.”
― David Lovelace, Scattershot: My Bipolar Family

tags: bipolar, family, lithium, manic-depression, medication, mental-illness, treatment

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#12

“For some reason the word 鈥渃hronic鈥� often has to be explained. It does not mean severe, though many chronic conditions can be exceptionally serious and indeed life-threatening. No, 鈥渃hronic鈥� means persistent over time, enduring, constant. Diabetes is a chronic condition, but measles is not. With measles, you contract it and then it is gone. It can sometimes be fatal, but is never chronic. Manic depression, in other words, is something you have to learn to live with. There are therapies which may help some people to function and function for the most part happily and well. Sometimes a talking therapy, sometimes pharmaceutical intervention helps.”
― Stephen Fry

tags: bipolar, bipolar-disorder, chronic, chronic-illness, chronic-pain, lifelong, manic-depression, measles

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#13

“I'm heavily medicated yet happily manic, I've been stuck on hypo mania for years.”
― Stanley Victor Paskavich, Stantasyland: Quips Quotes and Quandaries

tags: ambien, bipolar, bipolar-disorder, depacote, mania, manic, manic-depression, medication, seroquel

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#14

“That such a final, tragic, and awful thing is suicide can exist in the midst of remarkable beauty is one of the vastly contradictory and paradoxical aspects of life and art.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament

tags: art, bipolar-disorder, manic-depression, suicidality, suicide, sylvia-plath, tormented-mind, tortured-artist

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#15

“I read it as if it had been written by someone else, although it was my own experience being recounted.

The endless questioning finally ended. My psychiatrist looked at me, there was no uncertainty in his voice. "Maniac-depressive illness." I admired his bluntness. I wished him locusts in his land and a pox upon his house. Silent, unbelievable rage. I smiled pleasantly. He smiled back. The war had just begun,”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

tags: bipolar, manic-depression

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#16

“Few things are strong enough to survive that deadly clash of mania and depression. Certainly not love. Love is far too fragile: it is a picture window, just begging to be shattered.”
― Terri Cheney

tags: love, manic, manic-depression

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#17

“The black devil and the blue devil: that was how he鈥檇 come to think of the two opposing sides of his nature. Since his early adolescence, the bloodthirsty pair had staked his mind as their battleground, and even now he could feel their presence, lurking, waiting to make their next move.”
― Grace Callaway, Never Say Never to an Earl

tags: bipolar, bipolar-disorder, manic-depression

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#18

“Ruefully, nobody perceives me as exceptionally gifted, intelligent, handsome, or physically strong. My sense of alienation stems from an inferiority complex, depressive nature, and manic tendencies that repulse other people. For many years, I passively accepted my clumsiness, uselessness, and lack of capacity for learning by avoiding serious literature and other opportunities for personal growth. I embraced personal ignorance by favoring tactile sensations and gross pleasure afforded in a materialistic culture that revels in a hedonistic lifestyle.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

tags: alienation, aloneness, exile, inferiority-complex, isolated, manic-depression, recluse, self-isolation

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#19

“It took me far too long to realize that lost years and relationships cannot be recovered. That damage done to oneself and others cannot always be put right again.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

tags: depression, manic-depression, mental-health, mental-illness

61 likes

#20

“You know how most illnesses have symptoms you can recognize? Like fever, upset stomach, chills, whatever.
Well, with manic depression, it's sexual promiscuity, excessive spending, and substance abuse - and that just sounds like a fantastic weekend in Vegas to me!”
― Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

tags: biploar, illness, manic-depression, mental, mental-health, psycholofy, sex

52 likes

#21

“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between...I am still so na茂ve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don鈥檛 ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: bipolar, contrary, depression, manic-depression

60 likes

#22

“There comes a time when the blankness of the future is just so extreme, it鈥檚 like such a black wall of nothingness. Not of bad things like a cave full of monsters and so, you鈥檙e afraid of entering it. It鈥檚 just nothingness, the void, emptiness and it is just horrible. It鈥檚 like contemplating a future-less future and so you just want to step out of it. The monstrosity of being alive overwhelms you.”
― Stephen Fry

tags: manic-depression, stephen-fry

29 likes

#23

“It was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse. It was a horse without a name, and a horse with no experience of a bit between its teeth. My mother taught me to gentle it; gave me the discipline and love to break it; and- as Alexander had known so intuitively with Bucephalus- she understood, and taught me, that the beast was best handled by turning it toward the sun.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

tags: bipolar-disorder, manic-depression

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#24

“I've got to that point in life when there's very few thrills and lots of pills seems we all end up this way. As we wait for our final day. But there's one thing about the pills I take. My manic episodes have taken a break”
― Stanley Victor Paskavich, Return to Stantasyland

tags: manic-depression, mental-health, mental-illness

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#25

“Once a restless or frayed mood has turned to anger, or violence, or psychosis, Richard, like most, finds it very difficult to see it as illness, rather than being willful, angry, irrational or simply tiresome.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

tags: manic-depression, mental-health, mental-illness

10 likes

#26

“I'm the girl who is lost in space, the girl who is disappearing always, forever fading away and receding farther and farther into the background. Just like the Cheshire cat, someday I will suddenly leave, but the artificial warmth of my smile, that phony, clownish curve, the kind you see on miserably sad people and villains in Disney movies, will remain behind as an ironic remnant. I am the girl you see in the photograph from some party someplace or some picnic in the park, the one who is in fact soon to be gone. When you look at the picture again, I want to assure you, I will no longer be there. I will be erased from history, like a traitor in the Soviet Union. Because with every day that goes by, I feel myself becoming more and more invisible...”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

tags: bipolar, depression, elizabeth-wurtzel, mental-illness, prozac-nation

1795 likes

#27

“The thing about having a mental breakdown is that no matter how obvious it is that you're having one, it is somehow not obvious to you. I'm fine, you think. So what if I watched TV for twenty-four straight hours yesterday. I'm not falling apart. I'm just lazy. Why it's better to think yourself lazy than think yourself in distress, I'm not sure. But it was better. More than better: it was vital.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

tags: mental-illness

644 likes

#28

“To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.”
― Jeanette Winterson

tags: mental-illness, society, world

462 likes

#29

“There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn't.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

tags: brain, brains, hope, inner-thoughts, mental-health, mental-illness, thoughts

567 likes

#30

“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 in the mirror and seeing a person I did not recognize or understand. Not only did bipolar rob me of my sanity, but it robbed me of my ability to see beyond the space it dictated me to look. I no longer could tell reality from fantasy, and I walked in a world no longer my own.”
― Alyssa Reyans, Letters from a Bipolar Mother

tags: bipolar, bipolar-disorder, bipolar-mother, depression, insanity, mental-health, mental-illness, mood-disorder

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