Suicide Note: The calm, Cool face of the river Asked me for a kiss. -Langston Hughes.

From a public health point of view, still the overwhelming problem is that people are not treated enough for depression; depression remains under tre….

Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by impulse and irrationality, are influenced as well by personal aesthetics and private meanings..

There is an assumption, in attaching Puritan concepts such as 'successful' and 'unsuccessful' to the awful, final act of suicide, that those who 'fai….

There are relatively few things that kill people that are young other than car accidents and suicide..

I had been simply treating water, settling on surviving and avoiding pain rather than being actively involved in seeking out life..

...Time does not heal, It makes a half-stitched scar That can be broken and again you feel Grief as total as in its first hour. -Elizabeth Jennings.

Most people don't have the advantage of being able to evaluate their doctor in advance..

St. Andrews provided a gentle forgetfulness over the preceding painful years of my life. It remains a haunting and lovely time to me, a marrow experi….

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 depr….

Love has, at its best, made the inherent sadness of life bearable, and its beauty manifest..

I am a huge advocate of prescription drugs given wisely and for the right reasons and the right diagnosis and also psychotherapy..

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 ….

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?.

There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness and terror involved in this kind of madness... It will never end, for madness carves its own ….

Each way to suicide is its own: intensely private, unknowable, and terrible. Suicide will have seemed to its perpetrator the last and best of bad pos….

As best I could make out, having never heard the term until I arrived in California, being a WASP meant being mossbacked, lockjawed, rigid, humorless….

One of the advantages of science is that one's work, ultimately, is either replicated or it is not..