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• People who go into the arts are often hurt people. Many are manic-depressive. Some have tried suicide and some have succeeded. It's just part of the game. We are people who are oversensitive. That's why we're in this business, because of our need to communicate.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Suicide, Art, Hurt

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• Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.

  Adam Ant

  Dog, Stress, Bipolar

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• I have had manic-depressive illness, also known as bipolar disorder, since I was 18 years old. It is an illness that ensures that those who have it will experience a frightening, chaotic and emotional ride. It is not a gentle or easy disease.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Emotional, Years, Bipolar

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• Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he's happy, the other half he's right.

  Robert Breault

  Envy, Society, Half

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• The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful. In some strange way, I have tried to do that with manic-depressive illness. It has been a fascinating, albeit deadly, enemy and companion; I have found it to be seductively complicated, a distillation both of what is finest in our natures, and of what is most dangerous.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Beautiful, Believe, Chinese

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.10, Pan Macmillan

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• Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly abolished.

  Karl Abraham

  Normal, Patient, Instinct

  Karl Abraham (1988). “Selected Papers of Karl Abraham, M.D.”

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• With a lot of comedians, one of their major attributes is that they look comedic, with a certain hangdog or manic expression. I look like the neighborhood bully. That doesn't elicit laughter.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Laughter, Expression, Bully

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• If you spent a proper amount of time with me, you would probably wonder if I was on drugs - I'm not. I'm just incredibly hyperactive and manic. I can be quiet and serious at the same time.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Drug, Serious, Quiet

  "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Cast Interviews!". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. July 13, 2009.

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• I've noticed that nowadays I'm doing a lot of stuff on the phone and on the computer, which I usually wouldn't do earlier. And I can feel my brain being rewired: I'm getting anxious, I'm getting more manic. Now, I'm an extreme case because I'm old and I'm overdoing it. But still, it's really interesting that I can actually feel a change in my neurochemistry from this interaction with the technology.

  George Saunders

  Technology, Phones, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can't understand what they are saying. It's a mental illness. I have been diagnosed as a manic depressive.

  Brian Wilson

  Voice, Mental Illness, Now And Then

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• The day came. The wrath descended. Sin, guilt, and retribution? The manic psychoses of those entities we referred to as states, institutions, systems - the powers, the thrones, the dominations - the things which perpetually merge with men and emerge from them? Our darkness, externalized and visible? However you look upon these matters, the critical point was reached. The wrath descended.

  Philip K. Dick

  Men, Psychosis, Wrath

  Philip K. Dick (2013). “Deus Irae”, p.176, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My dad is actually a manic depressive, which is very exciting half the time.

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Dad, Humor

  "Marc Maron - Bipolar Coaster". "Comedy Central Presents", Season 11, Episode 1, www.cc.com. January 12, 2007.

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• Oh, the ongoing love affair between hair and mouths. Hair always goes for the mouth. The mouth opens, and hair says, "I'm going in! I'm going in!" like a manic cave diver.

  Maureen Johnson

  Hair, Ongoing, Caves

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• We''re all misfits here,” he says, almost proudly. “That's why I started this squat, after all.  For people like us, who don't fit in anywhere else.  Halfies and homos and hopeless romantics, the outcast and outrageous and terminally weird.  That's where art comes from, Jimmy, my friend.  From our weirdnesses and our differences, from our manic fixations, our obsessions, our passions.  From all those wild and wacky things that make each of us unique.

  Terri Windling

  Art, Passion, Unique

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• I had a husband who, I'm convinced, was an undiagnosed manic depressive. He didn't treat me as if I had a brain - I was just this beautiful little doll he could show off.

  Britt Ekland

  Beautiful, Husband, Brain

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• Falling in love has been greatly overrated. Falling in love consists of 45 percent fear of not being accepted, 45 percent manic hope that this time the fear will be put to shame and a modest 10 percent frail awareness of the possibility of love. I don't fall in love any more. Just like I don't get the mumps.

  Peter Høeg

  Falling In Love, Shame, Awareness

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• Because I'm not, in fact, depressed, Prozac makes me manic and numb - one of the reasons I slice my arm in the first place is that I'm coked to the gills on something utterly wrong for what I have.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Arms, Firsts, Facts

  Marya Hornbacher (2009). “Madness: A Bipolar Life”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There's childhood and early onset bipolar, but it transitions in your early adulthood into something a little bit different, and extremely severe. It was at that time that my impulse control just went out the window. Impulse control when you're manic just disappears.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Impulse Control, Childhood, Bipolar

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• I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like.

  Carrie Fisher

  Doctors, Light, World

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• I am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe." "'Know thyself.'" "We try, sir.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Trying, Littles, Know Thyself

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• Selling your apartment in New York is like dating a manic-depressive.. you get used to cycles of elation and despondency. Every time someone would come to see the apartment, there was the thrill of the date. You want to be presentable, so you clean the place up, make sure it smells good, put on some mood lighting and mellow music.

  Anderson Cooper

  New York, Emotional, Smell

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• The door of the novel, like the door of the poem, also shuts. But not so fast, nor with such manic, unanswerable finality.

  Sylvia Plath

  Doors, Novel, Finality

  Sylvia Plath (1994). “Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams”

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• The little depression I experienced during my manic-depression was not like depression as anyone else had ever described it. It was very violent and angry, and I was full of rage. I wasnt lying in bed.

  Andy Behrman

  Lying, Bed, Littles

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• My manic depression was ravaging my life, but because nobody could see it, many people thought it was a figment of my imagination.

  Andy Behrman

  People, Imagination, Figments

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• I have manic energy. What can be done about it? I don't know what to say sometimes. I'm professional in public, but I like to stay inside and be a hermit.

  Ben Folds

  Energy, Done, Sometimes

  Source: www.billboard.com

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