Bipolar Quotes

Bipolar Quote of the day

I have trouble with letting go. That's my problem. Anybody that has extreme highs and extreme lows is bipolar to any psychologist and that's not necessarily the truth.

Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.

I get lots of awards for being mentally ill. Apparently, I am better at being mentally ill than almost anything else I've ever done. Seriously - I have a shelf of awards for being bipolar.

If my revelation of having bipolar II has encouraged one person to seek help, then it is worth it. There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.

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.

As I say I don't want to kill myself, I just wouldn't mind dying.

I had some experience in dealing with people who have mental illness and depression, but I didn't see the signs in myself. I couldn't ask for help because I didn't know I needed help.

Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.

In Serbia a lot of people hate me because they want to westernize, not understanding that the western world is bipolar, with very good things and very bad things.

For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet... and hoped that they would go away.

It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway,' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.

My doctor says, 'You've got one of the hardest ones to treat because it's not bipolar, it's not up and down, you're always just about a quart low in the mood department.

I'm not worried about what's going to happen when I'm thirty, because I am never going to make it to thirty. You know what life is like after thirty - I don't want that.

Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons, but one out of one.

Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

I've had this problem since I was in my 20s. They don't call it manic depression anymore. They call it a bipolar disorder, and I'm a Type 2?

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.

You can have manic depression without having an ounce of creativity

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.

Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.

I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.

Mental illness is a very powerful thing. If it is with you it is probably going to be there until the day you die. I am trying so hard to break mine, but it is not easy. It is my toughest fight ever.

I'm not the kind of person who gives up without a fight.

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's almost like it's my alter ego when I get on stage... I turn into this different person, seriously. Bipolar disorder. I'm tired of everybody touching me and things being plugged into my head.

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid

We of the craft are all crazy.

Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.

I think people don't understand how intimately tied suicide is to mental illness, particularly to depressive illness and bipolar illness.

Then I overdosed at 28, at which point I began to accept the bipolar diagnosis.

I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that was strangely heartening.

I'm going to be a superstar musician, kill myself, and go out in a flame of glory.

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

What a creature of strange moods [Winston Churchill] is - always at the top of the wheel of confidence or at the bottom of an intense depression.

Being bipolar and an addict and an alcoholic I have to keep myself very busy. I don't sleep. I am lucky if I get three hours of sleep a night, and so I get up, and my head is full of slamming doors.

I know that without treatment I would not have never been able to harness my creativity in such a successful way.

Melancholia is the beginning and a part of mania. The development of a mania is really a worsening of the disease (melancholia) rather than a change into another disease.

I'm kind of effectively bipolar.

Blizzards, floods, volcanos, hurricanes, earthquakes: They fascinate because they nakedly reveal that Mother Nature, afflicted with bipolar disorder, is as likely to snuff us as she is to succor us.

A period of lewdness and shamelessness exists with the highest type of manic delirium.

You know, veterans come home and they may not be bipolar, but after they've been through a war with PTSD or a head injury, their families have a handful when they come home.

If you have a friend or a family member who's bipolar, or has panic attack disorder, or is depressed, read up on it a little bit so you can get to know where they're coming from.

Sometimes when you have bipolar you have days you are grumpy and not feeling yourself.

Women who put on a few pounds after starting lithium sometimes say the cure is worse than the disease. The weight gain shoots them straight into depression.

What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.

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?

Evidence is strongly suggesting Bipolar Disorder - previously known as Manic Depression - may be dramatically increasing in modern society.

Mental illness, of course, is not literally a "thing" - or physical object - and hence it can "exist" only in the same sort of way in which other theoretical concepts exist.