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...
I never again looked at the sky and saw only vastness and beauty. From that afternoon on I saw that death was also and always there.
Her version of Lowell was not theirs, even when they were discussing the same symptoms; what to her was mad was to them another mark of Lowell’s genius.
For as long as I can remember, I was frighteningly, although often wonderfully, beholden to moods.
Depression is awful beyond words or sounds or images...it bleeds relationships through suspicion, lack of confidence and self-respect, the inability to enjoy life, to walk or talk or think normally, t...
Circadian rhythms are implicated in some of the symptoms of depression, such as early awakening and diurnal variation in mood. The possible importance of the circadian system in its pathogenesis is su...
Amount of love can cure madness or unblacken one's dark moods. Love can help, it can make the pain more tolerable, but, always, one is beholden to medication that may or may not always work and may or...
نحن جميعاً نتحرك بصعوبة داخل حدود قيودنا
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.
كنت قد نسيت طعم الإحساس بالحياة عندما تنفتح الروح على الريح و المطر و الجمال، وبدأت أشعر بتسرب الحياة مجددا إلى التصدعات الموجودة في جسمي و عقلي اللذين كنت قد شطبتهما تماما باعتبارهما مستنزفين أو هامد...
ذاتك هو ذاتك، و الخداع عبر الاختباء خلف درجة علمية، أو لقب علمي، أو أي سلوك و عبارات منمقة، لا يزال تماما : خداعا. ربما كان ضروريا و لكنه خداع.
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...
Lower dose, which, like the building codes in California that are designed to prevent damage from earthquakes, allowed my mind and emotions to sway a bit.
High altitude coupled with rigorous exercise can raise lithium levels. I became completely disoriented and totally incapable of navigating my way down the mountain.
But there is an extra twist of almost painful nostalgia brought about by having lived a life particularly intense in moods. This makes it even harder to leave the past behind, and life, on occasion, b...
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...
Am reminded of Byron’s wonderful description of the rainbow that sits Like Hope upon a death-bed on the verge of a wild, rushing cataract; yet, while all around is torn / By the distracted waters, the...
You never knew those caves were there. It will never end, for madness carves its own reality.
These qualities—independence, contrariness, ambition, toughness, receptiveness to experience—are the blood supply to a creative mind and temperament; they are wellspring to imagination. The ferocity a...