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-depressive illness. It has been a fascinating, albeit...
Thank you for a lovely weekend.They tell me it rained.
Reading, which had been at the heart of my intellectual and emotional existence,
Psychologist J.P. Guilford, who carried out a long series of systematic psychological studies into the nature of creativity, found that several factors were involved in creative thinking; many of thes...
I have no idea how I managed to pass as normal in school, except that other people are generally caught up in their own lives and seldom notice despair in others if those despairing make an effort to...
For several weeks, I drank vodka in my orange juice before setting off for school in the mornings, and I thought obsessively about killing myself.
Far more important, they took me and my interests very seriously. They never tried to discourage me from becoming a doctor, even though it was an era that breathed, If woman, be a nurse.
During the Renaissance there was a renewed interest in the relationship between genius, melancholia, and madness. A stronger distinction was made between sane melancholies of high achievement and indi...
Decreased sleep is both a symptom of mania and a cause, but I didn’t know that at the time, and it probably would not have made any difference to me if I had.
Creative and manic thinking are both distinguished by fluidity and by the capacity to combine ideas in ways that form new and original connections. Thinking in both tends to be divergent in nature, le...
Chaos and intensity are no substitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life.
But, as I well knew, an understanding at an abstract level does not necessarily translate into an understanding at a day-to-day level. I have become fundamentally and deeply skeptical that anyone who...
As his psychotherapist for years, I had been privy to his dreams and fears, hopeful and then ruined relationships, grandiose and then shattered plans for the future. I had seen his remarkable resilien...
An ardent temperament makes one very vulnerable to dreamkillers.
نحن جميعًا نتحرك بصعوبة داخل حدود قيدونا.
نحن جميعاً نتحرك بصعوبة داخل حدود قيودنا
كل شيء كان في السابق متوهجًا أصبح الآن منطفئًا
الحُب كعامل مؤازر، و الحُب كعنصر مجدد، و الحب كأداة للحماية. بعد كل ما بدا أنه موت في عقلي أو قلبي ، عاد الحب ليعيد خلق الأمل و يسترد الحياة.
Manic-depressive illness can confer advantages on both the individual and society. The disease, in both its severe and less severe forms, appears to convey its advantages not only through its relation...
Freedom from the control imposed by medication loses its meaning when the only alternatives are death and insanity.