لقد كُنتُ دائمًا أسيرة حالات مزاجية مرعبة ، رغم أنها دائمًا مدهشة. كنت عاطفية جدًا كطفلة ، و متقلبة المزاج كفتاة، و مكتئبة من الدرجة الأولى كمراهقة.
The exuberant are easily engaged. And exuberance is, in its very effusiveness, liable to misconstruction and suspicion, often misinterpreted as sexual interest when none is intended, or as implying a...
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 maintain...
[The] persevering steadiness of my mother, her belief in seeing things through, and her great ability to love and learn, listen and change, helped keep me alive through all the years of pain and night...
You never knew those caves were there. It will never end, for madness carves its own reality.
What in the hell are you doing running around the parking lot at this hour? he asked. A not unreasonable question.
We each move within the restraints of our temperament and live up only partially to its possibilities.
There is an assumption, in attaching Puritan concepts such as succesful and unsuccesful to the awful, final act of suicide, that those who fail at killing themselves not only are weak, but incompeent...
The springtime peak of productivity that is shown in the works of many writers and artists, as well as by those in both Lombroso's study and my own, fits with popular conceptions about the blossoming...
The man's true life, for which he consents to live, wrote Robert Louis Stevenson, lies altogether in the field of fancy. The clergyman, in his spare hours, may be winning battles, the farmer sailing s...
The assumption that rigidly rejecting words and phrases that have existed for centuries will have much impact on public attitudes is rather dubious.
People who aren't as exuberant as you are get really irritated with you.
One of the advantages of science is that one's work, ultimately, is either replicated or it is not.
No amount of love can cure madness or unblacken one’s dark moods.
My mind was flying high that day, courtesy of whatever witches’ brew of neurotransmitters God had programmed into my genes, and I filled page after page with what I am sure, thinking back on it, were...
My mind was flying high that day, courtesy of whatever witches' brew of neurotransmitters God had programmed into my genes...
It was a tribute to my ability to present an image so at variance with what I felt that few noticed I was in any way different.
It is true that I hadwanted to die , but that is peculiarly different from regretting havingbeen born. Overwhelmingly, I was enormously glad to have beenborn, grateful for life, and I couldn’t imagine...
In a state of exuberance, judgment is put on hold-but is not turned off completely. In hypomania judgment is napping, but still wakes up periodically to check things out. In mania, judgment is out lik...
He was a psychiatrist, as well as a warm, whimsical, and witty man who had a mind like a cluttered attic.