“ Like Sylvia Plath, Natalie Jeanne Champagne invites you so close to the pain and agony of her life of mental illness and addiction, which leaves you gasping from shock and laughing moments later: this… Andy Behrman
“ Bipolar is an illness not a hopeless destination it can be maintained with proper medication Stanley Victor Paskavich
“ The measure of a man, or a woman for that matter, is not so much how much they have done, but what they have overcome to do what they have done. My favorite poets have said:"Do not go gentle into that… MR Leif N Gregersen II
“ I'm not the kind of person who likes to shout out my personal issues from the rooftops, but with my bipolar becoming public, I hope fellow sufferers will know it's completely controllable. I hope I ca… Catherine Zeta-Jones
“ That was the crux. You. Only you could work on you. Nobody could force you, and if you weren't ready, then you weren't ready, and no amount of open-armed encouragement was going to change that. Norah Vincent
“ Her parents, she said, has put a pinball machine inside her head when she was five years old. The red balls told her when she should laugh, the blue ones when she should be silent and keep away from o… Kay Redfield Jamison
“ St. Andrews provided a gentle forgetfulness over the preceding painful years of my life. It remains a haunting and lovely time to me, a marrow experience. For one who during her undergraduate years wa… Kay Redfield Jamison
“ That such a final, tragic, and awful thing is suicide can exist in the midst of remarkable beauty is one of the vastly contradictory and paradoxical aspects of life and art. Kay Redfield Jamison
“ The buildings, covered by red tiled roofs, undulate over the hillsides like a drift of wildflowers. Jane Thompson
“ We're like little kids. We are little kids, but don't tell us that—we're having a fantastic time. We have our little house, and live our little life. We are the perfect young husband and wife. We have… Marya Hornbacher
“ In the terms of 'Mental Illness' Isn't stable a place they put horses that wish to run free? Stanley Victor Paskavich
“ No matter how bad your life gets if you Execute yourself it won't get better! Stanley Victor Paskavich
“ Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. Vincent Van Gogh
“ I am mad. The thought calms me. I don't have to try to be sane anymore. It's over. I sleep Marya Hornbacher
“ Because of my bipolar condition I will have to take anti psychotics until I die but hopefully a handful of them won't be the last thing I taste Stanley Victor Paskavich
“ I get absolutely shitfaced. I am shitfaced and hyper and ten years old. I am having the time of my life. Marya Hornbacher
“ I like my writing career and it's progression, I'd rather be that slow moving tide that turns a mountain into a beautiful beach for all to enjoy, rather than a flash in a pan that yields no heat. Stanley Victor Paskavich
“ Most people can only sleep with a nice soft pillow I can only sleep with heavy anti psychotics Stanley Victor Paskavich
