The humor, however, was a bit more in the recounting than in the actual living through it. Unfortunately, this resistance to taking lithium is played out in the lives of tens of thousands of patients...
The endless questioning finally ended. My psychiatrist looked at me, there was no uncertainty in his voice. Manic-depressive illness. I admired his bluntness. I wished him locusts on his lands and a p...
Thank you for a lovely weekend. They tell me it rained.
So why would I want anything to do with this illness? Because I honestly believe that as a result of it I have felt more things, more deeply; had more experiences, more intensely; loved more, and been...
My thoughts were so fast that I couldn’t remember the beginning of a sentence halfway through.
My manias, at least in their early and mild forms, were absolutely intoxicating states that gave rise to great personal pleasure, an incomparable flow of thoughts, and a ceaseless energy that allowed...
I am reminded of the importance of small kindnesses.
He was a psychiatrist, as well as a warm, whimsical, and witty man who had a mind like a cluttered attic.
Fire, by its nature, both creates and destroys.
But, with time, one has encountered many of the monsters, and one is increasingly less terrified of those still to be met.
But if love is not the cure, it certainly can act as a very strong medicine. As John Donne has written; it is not so pure and abstract as one might once have thought and wished, but it does endure and...
Both individuals who are manic and those who are writers, when evaluated with neuropsychological tests, tend to combine ideas or images in a way that blurs, broadens, or shifts conceptual boundaries,...
من المزعج أحيانًا رؤية المشاعر و السلوكيات القوية و المعقدة يتم اختزالها في عبارات تشخيصية هامدة و بليدة.
فضولي و مزاجي أخذاني إلى أماكن لم أكن قادرةً على وصولها بمشاعري .
[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...
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 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 force that through the green fuse drives the flower, wrote Dylan Thomas,
The assumption that rigidly rejecting words and phrases that have existed for centuries will have much impact on public attitudes is rather dubious.