“ Been under treatment for PTSD and bipolar since 1992. I’m not ashamed of my illness. I’ve been shunned by many and I feel for those shunned, too. Stanley Victor Paskavich
“ When it comes to most true bipolars, consider this thought: Genius by birth, bipolar by design. Stanley Victor Paskavich
“ There is a dead space between most people and those afflicted with Mental Illness and it's called Understanding Stanley Victor Paskavich
“ Compared to bipolar's magic, reality seems a raw deal. It's not just the boredom that makes recovery so difficult, it's the slow dawning pain that comes with sanity - the realization of illnesss, the… David Lovelace
“ One of the things that baffles me (and there are quite a few) is how there can be so much lingering stigma with regards to mental illness, specifically bipolar disorder. In my opinion, living with man… Carrie Fisher
“ I now know for certain that my mind and emotions, my fix on the real and my family's well-being, depend on just a few grams of salt. But treatment's the easy part. Without honesty, without a true fami… David Lovelace
“ They're the perfect loving fam'ly, so adoring...And I love them ev'ry day of ev'ry week.So my son's a little shit, my husband's boring,And my daughter, though a genius, is a freak. Brian Yorkey
“ You’ve got to reach bedrock to become depressed enough before you are forced to accept the reality and enormity of the problem. Jonathan Harnisch
“ I AM come of a race noted for vigor of fancy and ardor of passion. Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence--whether much tha… Edgar Allan Poe
“ I know the empathy borne of despair; I know the fluidity of thought, the expansive, even beautiful, mind that hypomania brings, and I know this is quicksilver and precious and often it's poison. There… David Lovelace
“ She was a free bird one minute: queen of the world and laughing. The next minute she would be in tears like a porcelain angel, about to teeter, fall and break. She never cried because she was afraid t… Roman Payne
“ I have never seen battles quite as terrifyingly beautiful as the ones I fight when my mind splinters and races, to swallow me into my own madness, again. Nicole Lyons
“ That’s what mountains do, they taunt you, lure you to the freedom of the wilderness, and it is fucking exhilarating. Shannon Mullen
