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..

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 ….

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….

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..

Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one plays them, is, by far, the highest card I was d….

It is true that I had wanted to die , but that is peculiarly different from regretting having been born. Overwhelmingly, I was enormously glad to hav….

In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief and they really need to be treated for depression..

The awareness of the damage done by severe mental illness—to the individual himself and to others—and fears that it may return again play a decisive ….

One is what one is, and the dishonesty of hiding behind a degree, or a title, or any manner and collection of words, is still exactly that: dishonest..

It took me far too long to realize that lost years and relationships cannot be recovered. That damage done to oneself and others cannot always be put….

The ancient dialogue between reason and the senses is almost always more interestingly and passionately resolved in favor of the senses..

Suicide is not a blot on anyone’s name; it is a tragedy.

The rites of passage in the academic world are arcane and, in their own way, highly romantic, and the tensions and unplesantries of dissertations and….

I think psychotherapy saves lives and is hugely meaningful and I think that one of the unfortunate aspects of prescription drugs working well is that….

I was bitterly resentful, but somehow greatly relieved. And I respected him enormously for his clarity of thought, his obvious caring, and his unwill….

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?.