Eventually, the depression went away of its own accord, but only long enough for it to regroup and mobilize for the next attack.
Even so, what I read often disappeared from my mind like snow on a hot pavement.
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...
Do we risk making the world a blander, more homogenized place if we get rid of the genes for manic-depressive illness
Discovery, however divine or intoxicating, is just one aspect of scientific exuberance, however. Science is also driven by curiosity and an enthusiastic restlessness, hastened forward by a drive to ex...
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...
An ardent temperament makes one very vulnerable to dreamkillers.
Generals outrank colonels who, in turn, outrank majors and captains and lieutenants, and everyone, but everyone, outranks children. Within the ranks of children, boys always outrank girls. One way of...
نحن جميعًا نتحرك بصعوبة داخل حدود قيدونا.
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.
الجامعة بالنسبة لأكثر الناس الذين عرفتهم كانت أفضل سنوات حياتهم، لم يكن ذلك هو الحال معي. الجامعة في معظمها بالنسبة لي كانت كفاحًا فضيعًا ، و كوابيس متكررة من الأمزجة العنيفة و المُفزعة، تتناوب لمدة أ...
Seemed to myself to be dull, boring, inadequate, thick brained, unlit, unresponsive, chill skinned, bloodless, and sparrow drab.
He slowly put down the hamburger he was eating, stared straight into my eyes, and, without missing a beat, said rather dryly, That explains a lot.
For manics anyway, mania is a natural extension of the economy.
Because the California commitment code is designed more for the well-being of lawyers than of patients, it would have been relatively easy for me to talk my way out of an involuntary commitment.
Within psychiatric circles, if you kill yourself, you earn the right to be considered a successful suicide. This is a success one can live without.
To be sure, wrote Hugo Wolf, I appear at times merry and in good heart, talk, too, before others quite reasonably, and it looks as if I felt, too, God knows how well within my skin. Yet the soul maint...
There is no easy way to tell other people that you have manic-depressive illness; if there is, I haven’t found it.
The exuberant brain is a hopping, electric place, a breeding ground for both invention and rashness. It is by nature impatient, certain, and high on itself; inclined to action rather than reflection;...