Your perspective on life comes from the cage you were held captive in.

I’d wasted so much of my life. So many of my days, and all of my promise, all of my dreams, lost to hospitals, to depression, to wanting to die. This wasn’t how it was...

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...

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...

Serving as the only audience for a man raised by crowds of admirers exhausted her. […] The buried thought that he might have found comfort elsewhere was almost a comfort to her.

But money spent while manic doesn’t fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania, when most depressed, you’re given excellent reason to be even more so.

Game is bipolar. One day he’s this way, the next day he’s the next.

My life isn’t good or bad. It’s an incredible series of emotional and mental extremes, with beautiful thunderstorms and stunning sunrises.Some would say this is my artistic temperament. Others would say i am mentally ill...

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...

Sometimes I though about killing myself. The idea of it circled my head, shining and lovely like a tinsel halo. How beautiful it would be if everything could just stop. If I could stop. If...

In our family “whim-wham” is code, a defanged reference to any number of moods and psychological disorders, be they depressive, manic, or schizoaffective. Back in the 1970s and ’80s – when they were all straight...

The world is essentially bipolar: driven to extremes but defined by flux. Saints are always just a stumble away from sinners. Nothing is absolute, not even death

Sometimes I get so sad that it jest sounds good.

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...

Hunter was bipolar, for crying out loud. He had checked into the nut house on more than one occasion and, honestly, I was already starting to feel the anxiety of living together. I would need...

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

When I was lost in the fog, it was as though nothing else existed. And, afterwards, it seemed incomprehensible that I had ever really thought like that. Self-recrimination inevitably followed.

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....

But instability like mine needs considerable distance to pass for mere quirkiness.

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....

Others imply that they know what it is like to be depressed because they have gone through a divorce, lost a job, or broken up with someone. But these experiences carry with them feelings. Depression,...

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...

Genius by birth, Bipolar by design

The tapestry of my life was a ruin of unravelling threads. The brightest parts were a nonsensical madman’s weaving. And now every day was a grey stitch, laid down with an outpatient’s patience, one following...

It is my understanding that when you receive a Autism diagnosis for your child you have to accept it. If you don’t you are only condemning yourself and your child to a life of frustrating...

There were a few things scarier than a bipolar vampire off his meds, but to be honest, not that many.

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

When I am high I couldn’t worry about money if I tried. So I don’t. The money will come from somewhere; I am entitled; God will provide. Credit cards are disastrous, personal checks worse. Unfortunately,...

I’m bipolar, but I’m not crazy, and I never was. I’m stark raving sane.

If every Genius has a touch of Madness, does every Normal person have a touch of Ignorance ?

There had been a subtle realignment of the spheres. The world was somehow a place I could endure again. If life was a grey corridor lined with doors, it was now within my power to...

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

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

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,...

One of things so bad about depression and bipolar disorder is that if you don’t have prior awareness, you don’t have any idea what hit you.

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

Every one wants to be a Genius. But only the brave choose to go mad to get there…

Days passed in a grey fog. I was becalmed. Without energy, without hope, with no sight of land, I could remember feeling better but I somehow couldn’t believe in it. There was nothing but this.

Soon madness has worn you down. It’s easier to do what it says than argue. In this way, it takes over your mind. You no longer know where it ends and you begin. You believe...

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

If you can still wipe your own backside then life’s not that bad!

Manic-depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live. It is an illness that is biological in its origins, yet...

Minds that have withered into psychosis are far more terrifying than any character of fiction.

When you read my poems or quotes remember you’re stepping into the mind that steps outside of me

One of the things that baffles me (and there are quite a few) is how there can be so much lingering stigma with regards to mental illness, specifically bipolar disorder. In my opinion, living with...

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

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...

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.

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

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...