My psychiatrist said I had charisma so at least I’m certified

The doctor’s words made me understand what happened to me was a dark, evil, and shameful secret, and by association I too was dark, evil, and shameful. While it may not have been their intention,...

Psychosis can happen out of the blue, to anyone, and no one knows why. Not even the best doctors on the planet.And that’s why Mom is always so afraid. If we don’t know what made...

I admit I have Mental Illness so please no more ‘Fruit Cakes’ for Christmas Please

I know, Dee, fuck, do I know that. I’m just telling you how it goes. The party line—what we told people when they asked.

An intensely gripping narrative…expertly crafted and totally addictive…a must read!

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...

James had taken his own life, but the need to do so was not something easily explained. He had the life he wanted: money, a home, a job, a wife, a good friend. I’d known...

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.

Bipolar is an illness not a hopeless destination it can be maintained with proper medication

Joshua had always been able to get away with things—things for which he should never have been forgiven. He was a lot like James in that respect, for while my husband had bought his grace...

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

Because of my bipolar condition I will have to take anti psychotics until I die but hopefully a handful of them won’t be the last thing I taste

There may not be any romance to mental illness but who needs romance when the preferable route is agency? The prevailing conversation around mental health issues is agency and the lack thereof on the part...

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

Why do they always prescribe thyroid medicine to go with the mental illness cocktails they whip up?

For eight years I was an inmate in a state asylum for the insane. During those years I passed through such unbearable terror that I deteriorated into a wild, frightened creature intent only on survival....

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...

Everything is, the way it is, for a reason. Or it isn’t. Or neither. Or both. It’s so hard to tell. It’s so hard to tell you’re a mile away by the Luke in your...

I like my writing career and it’s progression, I’d rather be that slow moving tide that turns a mountain into a beautiful beach for all to enjoy, rather than a flash in a pan that...

I AM come of a race noted for vigor of fancy and ardor of passion. Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest...

Her parents, she said, has put a pinball machine inside her head when she was five years old. The red balls told her when she should laugh, the blue ones when she should be silent...

Like Sylvia Plath, Natalie Jeanne Champagne invites you so close to the pain and agony of her life of mental illness and addiction, which leaves you gasping from shock and laughing moments later: this is...

Since I am suffering with type 2 bipolar disorder mainly on the depressive side of the bipolar disorder.I am not afraid nor am I disappointed with it; if this is what God Almighty want me...

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...

If I can’t feel, if I can’t move, if I can’t think, and I can’t care, then what conceivable point is there in living?

I said just let me try one more time and she said, “THAT’S ENOUGH, ISABEL,” again, and she could just say it over and over and it would never get through my thick skull because...

Goody. That must be why they were looking for a 22-caliber anything when they came by with their search warrant this morning.”They didn’t!”They did.”When?”Oddly enough, right before I upped my meds.

Its not the label of autism we need for our children, its the help and understanding that comes with that label that we need.

Depression, somehow, is much more in line with society’s notions of what women are all about: passive, sensitive, hopeless, helpless, stricken, dependent, confused, rather tiresome, and with limited aspirations. Manic states, on the other hand,...

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....

Here’s to adrenaline. Here’s to dramatic abandon of protocol. Here’s to treasured pain and purple rain. Here’s to chasing our souls, burning across to sky. Here’s to drinking the ash as it falls, and not...

The buildings, covered by red tiled roofs, undulate over the hillsides like a drift of wildflowers.

In the terms of ‘Mental Illness’ Isn’t stable a place they put horses that wish to run free?

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

Cincinatti was where I learned that running away from your problems has a three-month statute of limitations, a lesson I have found repeatedly to be true. Three months is still a first impression — of...

That was the crux. You. Only you could work on you. Nobody could force you, and if you weren’t ready, then you weren’t ready, and no amount of open-armed encouragement was going to change that.