Bipolar Disorder Quotes:

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.

- Marya Hornbacher

source: Marya Hornbacher (2009). “Madness: A Bipolar Life”, p.118, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Depression, Reality, Mad, Departing, Manic Depression

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?

- Ned Beatty

topic: Depression, Bipolar, Problem, Manic Depression, Manic

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.

- Carrie Fisher

topic: Depression, Teacher, Challenges, Bipolar Disorder

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

topic: Mean, Thinking, Bipolar, Accusing, Bipolar Disorder

The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it's now more commonly called, is that it's about mood swings. So, you have an elevated mood. When people think of manic depression, they only hear the word depression. They think one's a depressive. The point is, one's a manic-depressive.

- Stephen Fry

topic: Thinking, Swings, People, Mood Swing, Manic Depression

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.

- Kay Redfield Jamison

topic: Ideas, Bipolar, Awareness, Bipolar Disorder

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

topic: Children, Order, Bipolar, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Therapy

People with bipolar disorder have difficulty with boundaries.

- Claire Danes

topic: People, Bipolar, Boundaries, Bipolar Disorder

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 will experience a frightening, chaotic and emotional ride. It is not a gentle or easy disease.

- Kay Redfield Jamison

topic: Emotional, Years, Bipolar, Depressive, Bipolar Disorder

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, suicidal, doomed, and tired one? Probably a bit of both, hopefully much that is neither.

- Kay Redfield Jamison

source: Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.45, Pan Macmillan

topic: Crazy, Real, Suicidal, Bipolar Disorder

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

topic: Suicide, People, Bipolar, Manic Depression, Bipolar Disorder

Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character who has bipolar disorder and is also a love-sick vampire attending an English school called Hogwarts. But I'm not giving up.

- Pete Earley

source: "What's Driving Pete Earley Crazy". Interview with Lizzie Simon, www.psychologytoday.com. March 18, 2010.

topic: Giving Up, School, Character, Bipolar Disorder, Attending

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

source: "Eric Millegan on Living (and Acting) with Bipolar Disorder: Part 2" by Jamie Frevele, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

topic: Suicidal, People, Bipolar, Bipolar Disorder

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

topic: Thinking, Guy, Bipolar, Family Man, Manic Depression

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

topic: Issues, Bipolar, Rooftops, Personal Issues, Manic Depression

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

- Michael Landon

topic: Giving Up, Fighting, Kind, Rooftops, Trendy

Bipolar depression really got my life off track, but today I'm proud to say I am living proof that someone can live, love, and be well with bipolar disorder when they get the education, support and treatment they need.

- Demi Lovato

source: "Demi Lovato Joins Tour To Raise Awareness About Mental Illness" by Ariel Nagi, www.seventeen.com. August 18, 2014.

topic: Track, Support, Bipolar, Living Proof, Live Love

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.

- Britney Spears

topic: Tired, Ego, Touching, Alter Ego, Bipolar Disorder

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.

- Dean Koontz

source: Dean Koontz (2007). “The Taking: A Novel”, p.11, Bantam

topic: Mother, Earthquakes, Bipolar, Mother Nature, Snuff

I had developed manic depression [bipolar disorder] ... and the main symptoms the constant voice in the head telling you to kill yourself.

- Sinead O'Connor

topic: Depression, Voice, Bipolar, Killing Yourself, Manic Depression

It seems when the madness sets in the mix of wealth and seductiveness, it's never the first generation that acquired the wealth; they had to be quite savvy. That savvy-ness probably meant you were some sort of alpha person. That alpha stuff in the later generations, you still have the intelligence, but it tends to manifest itself in bipolar disorders and inestimable amounts of depression.

- Lawrence Douglas

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Bipolar, Madness, Wealth, Savvy, Bipolar Disorder

Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There's very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I'm lucky enough that it's reasonably mild in my case.

- Stephen Fry

topic: Bipolar, Lucky, Goes On, Bipolar Disorder

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.

- Adam Ant

topic: Dog, Stress, Bipolar, Manic Depression, Bipolar Disorder

When I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder the year I turned 50, it was certainly a shock. But as a journalist, knowing a little bit about a lot of things, I didn't suffer the misconception that depression was all in my head or a mark of poor character. I knew it was a disease, and, like all diseases, was treatable.

- Jane Pauley

source: "TAKE ONE STEP: Caring for Depression, with Jane Pauley". www.pbs.org. 2008.

topic: Character, Knowing, Years, Poor Character, Bipolar Disorder

Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with childhood bipolar disorder in the U.S.

- Jon Ronson

topic: Childhood, Bipolar, Sometimes, Labeling, Ocd

There is almost no evidence that diagnoses such as 'schizophrenia' and 'bipolar disorder' correspond to discrete entities ('natural kinds' in the language of philosophy).

- Richard Bentall

topic: Philosophy, Bipolar, Diagnosis, Discrete, Bipolar Disorder

Love is great and it does help a lot of people, but a lot of people do have things like depression or schizophrenia or bipolar disorder or other disorders, all of which will need to be addressed in order for people to stay in long-term recovery.

- Maia Szalavitz

topic: Recovery, Love Is, Order, Bipolar Disorder

[Carrie Fisher] could talk about issues that very few people could. She could make her bipolar disorder both real and entertaining. Carrie deserves a lot of credit for giving voice to traumas that few people feel comfortable talking about.

- Tony Taccone

topic: Real, Talking, Voice, Giving Voice, Bipolar Disorder

I had a very dear friend of mine, ton of potential, and he fell ill with bipolar disorder. And he was put in the penal system. And that was just adding fuel to the fire. He got worse. He came out and he's never been the same since. He can't seem to get his life back. And this is a man who could have had Hollywood in the palm of his hand. A lot of my inspiration and aspirations for wanting to be an actor, I owe to him. Between the disorder and him being put in jail, it just snuffed all of that away from him.

- Michael K. Williams

source: Source: www.ebony.com

topic: Inspiration, Men, Fire, Bipolar Disorder

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

- Gordon Parker

topic: Bipolar, May, Modern, Manic Depression, Modern Society