S. N. Behrman Quotes
I am a rapid-cycling manic-depressive, bi-polar one disorder, which means I can have thirty or forty episodes a year, and I used to have thirty to forty episodes a year.
A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex.
There are two kinds of people in one's life-people whom one keeps waiting-and the people for whom one waits
My manic depression was ravaging my life, but because nobody could see it, many people thought it was a figment of my imagination.
As no one knew much about my mental illness, a lot of people had the attitude that I had the capability to 'kick it' and get better instantly. This was the most frustrating attitude for me.
When I'm manic, I'm so awake and alert, that my eyelashes fluttering on the pillow sound like thunder.
Most nights, I'm good for only four or five hours of sleep. That leaves the other 20. I have to fill them some way.
You never have the wind with you - either it is against you or you're having a good day.
I define success as being the best, authentic me that I can be.
After graduation in June of 1984, I moved to Manhattan. My first stop was a psychiatrist, who in less than our first fifty-minute session again diagnosed me with depression.