Bipolar Quotes - Page 4

• I don't like standing near the edge of a platform when an express train is passing through. I like to stand right back and if possible get a pillar between me and the train. I don't like to stand by the side of a ship and look down into the water. A second's action would end everything. A few drops of desperation.

  Winston Churchill

  Depression, Water, Looks

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• I had developed manic depression [bipolar disorder] ... and the main symptoms the constant voice in the head telling you to kill yourself.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Depression, Voice, Mental Illness

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• I think people don't understand how intimately tied suicide is to mental illness, particularly to depressive illness and bipolar illness.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Suicide, Thinking, People

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. September 30, 2009.

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• Had [Winston Churchill] been a stable and equable man, he could never have inspired the nation. In 1940, when all the odds were against Britain, a leader of sober judgment might well have concluded that we were finished.

  Anthony Storr

  Depression, Men, Odds

  Anthony Storr (1990). “Churchill's Black Dog, Kafka's Mice, and Other Phenomena of the Human Mind”

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• Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.

  William J. Clinton

  Healing, Helpful, Mental Health

  "10 Male Celebrities Who Are Smashing Mental Health Stereotypes" by Lindsay Holmes, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2016.

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• If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Depression, Believe

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• What a creature of strange moods [Winston Churchill] is - always at the top of the wheel of confidence or at the bottom of an intense depression.

  Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

  Depression, Wheels, Strange

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• There are times when I think being bipolar gives me the ability to see and want and write things that other people cannot and do not. One of those is writing. Creativity is something that co-presents with bipolarity. There are other times when being bipolar legitimately sucks and leads you to a point where you want to kill yourself. Very odd thing when your brain which, evolutionarily speaking, should want you to survive is telling you to die.

  Haroon Moghul

  Writing, Creativity, Thinking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.

  Camille Paglia

  Self, Mental Health, Mental Illness

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.103, Vintage

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• SpongeBob is a good role model as far as imaginary creatures go. He works hard and his emotional highs are very high, he's either giddy or utterly devastating and crying like a lawnsprinkler... SpongeBob is bipolar.

  Tom Kenny

  Hard Work, Emotional, Role Models

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I'm really quite bipolar, and the depressed times, when everything felt like night, sometimes you get to such a low point that you physically beat at it until it bleeds - as you would say - bleeds till sunshine. You get to a point where you say, 'I will not take it anymore! I'm gonna do something drastic if I stay this depressed. I've got to break out of there!'

  Mos Def

  Sunshine, Night, Break Out

  "David Bowie & Mos Def: The Style Council (2003 Cover Story)". Interview with Ben White, www.complex.com. January 11, 2016.

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  My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.

  Patty Duke

  Depression, Recovery, Swings

  Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.289, Bantam

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• It's hard to be bipolar and bicoastal at the same time.

  Ryan Adams

  Hard

  "Alt-country crooner is charmingly glum". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. October 20, 2002.

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• It's almost like it's my alter ego when I get on stage... I turn into this different person, seriously. Bipolar disorder. I'm tired of everybody touching me and things being plugged into my head.

  Britney Spears

  Tired, Ego, Touching

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• Being bipolar and an addict and an alcoholic I have to keep myself very busy. I don't sleep. I am lucky if I get three hours of sleep a night, and so I get up, and my head is full of slamming doors.

  David Feherty

  Sleep, Night, Doors

  Source: gearpatrol.com

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• There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.

  R. D. Laing

  Pain, Trying, Destroying Ourselves

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• Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything...I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It’s better than being bad at being insane, right? How tragic would it be to be runner-up for Bipolar Woman of the Year?

  Carrie Fisher

  Awards, Years, Insane

  "Wishful Drinking like". Book by Carrie Fisher, December 2, 2008.

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• Living with bipolar, schizophrenia or any other mental condition takes a recognition that one has a chronic condition that needs managing. The management can be through pharmaceutical intervention, talk therapy, mindfulness programmes, diet and exercise changes, all kinds of things.

  Stephen Fry

  Exercise, Mindfulness, Needs

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• It seems when the madness sets in the mix of wealth and seductiveness, it's never the first generation that acquired the wealth; they had to be quite savvy. That savvy-ness probably meant you were some sort of alpha person. That alpha stuff in the later generations, you still have the intelligence, but it tends to manifest itself in bipolar disorders and inestimable amounts of depression.

  Lawrence Douglas

  Madness, Wealth, Manifest

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have not been an easygoing guy. I think it's called bipolar manic depression. I've got a rich history of that in my family.

  Ben Stiller

  Thinking, Guy, Mental Illness

  "Stars Who've Battled Bipolar Disorder" by Lauren Schutte, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 13, 2011.

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• The Cold War has ended. It's very simple. We are no longer living in a bipolar world. The chances that we will go to war with Russia are pretty much ended. Mutually Assured Destruction was a doctrine that worked very well for decades as a deterrent, but the world has fundamentally changed.

  Valerie Plame

  War, Simple, Having Fun

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• You can have manic depression without having an ounce of creativity

  Patty Duke

  Depression, Creativity, Manic

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• Democrats are fighting for people to be able to quit work while the rest of us pay for their health care while they go out and be artists and photographers and tend to bipolar kids with asthma or what have you, and we're going to pay for this.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Kids, Fighting, Artist

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• We no longer live in a bipolar world. The world is interconnected and interdependent. You will have to connect with everybody at the same time. Even if there are two opposing countries, they will have to be friends. Now the times have changed.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Times Have Changed, Two

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.in

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• Love is great and it does help a lot of people, but a lot of people do have things like depression or schizophrenia or bipolar disorder or other disorders, all of which will need to be addressed in order for people to stay in long-term recovery.

  Maia Szalavitz

  Recovery, Love Is, Order

  Source: sojo.net

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