Quotes and Sayings About Bipolar
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Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
-- Adam Ant -
I think Hell exists on Earth. It's a psychological state, or it can be a physical state. People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell. I think there are all kinds of different hells. It's not a place you go to after you die.
-- Al Franken -
I don't know that I'm actually bipolar, but I definitely have huge mood swings, and I'm definitely passionate about the way I feel. I'm not really lukewarm one way or the other.
-- Alicia Witt -
I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.
-- Anthony Storr -
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.
-- Aretaeus of Cappadocia -
A period of lewdness and shamelessness exists with the highest type of manic delirium.
-- Aretaeus of Cappadocia -
I contemplated suicide. My main concern was that I would not make the New York Times obituary page.
-- Art Buchwald -
I learned that I suffered from bipolar II disorder, a less serious variant of bipolar I, which was once known as manic depression. The information was naturally frightening; up to 1 in 5 people with bipolar disorder will commit suicide, and rates may even be higher for those suffering from bipolar II.
-- Ayelet Waldman -
Because of my bipolar disorder, I tend to these mixed states, which are depressed but loud and agitated. So I can be terribly irritable. I go to cognitive behavioral therapy in order not to yell at my children.
-- Ayelet Waldman -
Where would the memoir be without bipolar writers? I mean, that's what - that whole oversharing thing is really a very clear symptom of bipolar disorder. And I'm not saying that every, you know, I'm not accusing every memoirist of being bipolar. But I think in a way it's kind of a gift.
-- Ayelet Waldman -
I was a violent, bipolar, compulsive liar. I was a real American.
-- Ben Lerner -
I have not been an easygoing guy. I think it's called bipolar manic depression. I've got a rich history of that in my family.
-- Ben Stiller -
Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.
-- Benjamin Rush -
I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I'm never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It's like being a diabetic.
-- Carrie Fisher -
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.
-- Catherine Zeta-Jones -
I'm not the kind of person who likes to shout out my personal issues from the rooftops, but with my bipolar becoming public, I hope fellow sufferers will know it's completely controllable. I hope I can help remove any stigma attached to it, and that those who don't have it under control will seek help with all that is available to treat it.
-- Catherine Zeta-Jones -
The smartest thing I did was to stop going online. I'm the sort of person who will just look for the negative - Michael really can't understand it, but that's just the way I am. And with my bipolar thing, that's poison. So I just stopped. Cold turkey. And it's so liberating.
-- Catherine Zeta-Jones -
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.
-- Clara Hughes -
A very common symptom in maniacal conditions is erotic excitement. This varies from mere coquetry, a somewhat extended application of the command "love one another", an undue attention to the opposite sex, and so forth, up to the extreme of salacity, when the mind is wholly occupied by the urgent sexual appetite, and all restraint is abandoned.
-- Daniel Hack Tuke -
Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.
-- David Foster Wallace -
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.
-- David O. Russell -
Sexual excitability is increased and leads to hasty engagements, marriages by the newspaper, improper love-adventures, conspicuous behavior, fondness for dress, on the other hand to jealousy and matrimonial discord.
-- Emil Kraepelin -
The patients often try to starve themselves, to hang themselves, to cut their arteries; they beg that they may be burned, buried alive, driven out into the woods and there allowed to die. One of my patients struck his neck so often on the edge of a chisel fixed on the ground that all the soft parts were cut through to the vertebrae.
-- Emil Kraepelin -
I'm bipolar, but I'm not crazy, and I never was. I'm stark raving sane.
-- Emilie Autumn -
Mental illness is the last frontier. The gay thing is part of everyday life now on a show like 'Modern Family,' but mental illness is still full of stigma. Maybe it is time for that to change.
-- Eric McCormack -
If you know people who are suicidal, or if you know people who are bipolar, depressed, have panic attack disorder, just be there for them. They're going through something that's very, very hard.
-- Eric Millegan -
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.
-- Eric Millegan -
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.
-- Frank Bruno -
Sometimes when you have bipolar you have days you are grumpy and not feeling yourself.
-- Frank Bruno
