I was late to understand that chaos and intensity are no subsitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life. Normal peo….

I think you have waves of awareness and one of the things that I found with grief was actually - I was well prepared for it by the cyclicality of my ….

Exuberance is a gift of grace that allows us to move on, to seek, to love again..

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..

Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving the lives o….

Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and….

I have had manic-depressive illness, also known as bipolar disorder, since I was 18 years old. It is an illness that ensures that those who have it w….

When I am high I couldn't worry about money of I tried. So I don't. The money will come from from somewhere; I am entitled; God will provide. Credit ….

Anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's depression, bipolar illness or severe anxiety, whatever - actually has a fair amount ….

Manic-depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and….

The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful. In some strange way, I have tried to do that with manic-dep….

I compare myself with my former self, not with others. Not only that, I tend to compare my current self with the best I have been, which is when I ha….

I long ago abandoned the notion of a life without storms, or a world without dry and killing seasons. Life is too complicated, too constantly changin….

Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

I wish I could explain it so someone could understand it. I'm afraid it's something I can't put into words. There's just this heavy, overwhelming des….

There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous. The ideas and….

Which of my feelings are real? Which of the me's is me? The wild, impulsive, chaotic, energetic, and crazy one? Or the shy, withdrawn, desperate, sui….

Nothing good comes out of depression..

There is always a part of my mind that is preparing for the worst, and another part of my mind that believes if I prepare enough for it, the worst wo….

People are more impulsive and they get slightly less impulsive as they get older and the impulsiveness interacting with the depression is particularl….

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..