41 quotes found
“The west coast is a mecca for wild hearts, wild minds, wild spirits and Im a WMDIve got so much energy Im about to explode.”
“My mind feels like a race car on the track, getting faster and faster every time I pause to think or blink or try to focus on anything. Nothing can keep up to it, not the other cars, not my body, n...”
“What do you know about bipolar disorder? I almost say, What do you know about it? But I make myself breathe and smile. Is that the Jekyll-Hyde thing? My voice sounds flat and even. Maybe a little b...”
“I found my way home, stripped naked, and lay on the bathroom floor, the cool tiles pushing up. Keeping me from falling. I didn't know how long the floor would hold me. I prayed Ellen would come hom...”
“To become a fad, a psychiatric diagnosis requires 3 preconditions: a pressing need, an engaging story, and influential prophets. The pressing need arises from the fact that disturbed and disturbing...”
“What is actually observed in so-called 'biplar children'? If you read the research reports carefully, they describe broad and persistent emotional dysregulation. Although these children have mood s...”
“Why do they always prescribe thyroid medicine to go with the mental illness cocktails they whip up?”
“For eight years I was an inmate in a state asylum for the insane. During those years I passed through such unbearable terror that I deteriorated into a wild, frightened creature intent only on surv...”
“Bipolar illness, manic depression, manic-depressive illness, manic-depressive psychosis. Thats a nice way of saying you will feel so high that no street drug can compete and you will feel so low th...”
“But new love only lasts so long, and then you crash back into the real people you are, and from as high as we were, it's a very long fall, and we hit the ground with a thud.”
“Falling in love happens so suddenly that it seems, all at once, that you have always been in love.”
“I am mad. The thought calms me. I don't have to try to be sane anymore. It's over. I sleep”
“The buildings, covered by red tiled roofs, undulate over the hillsides like a drift of wildflowers.”
“Everything is, the way it is, for a reason. Or it isn't. Or neither. Or both. It's so hard to tell. It's so hard to tell you're a mile away by the Luke in your eye.”
“That’s what mountains do, they taunt you, lure you to the freedom of the wilderness, and it is fucking exhilarating.”
“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.”
“I used to think it utterly normal that I suffered from “suicidal ideation” on an almost daily basis. In other words, for as long as I can remember, the thought of ending my life came to me frequent...”
“Suddenly, I’m lighter, only half of who I was.”
“The west coast is a mecca for wild hearts, wild minds, wild spirits and I’m a WMD—I’ve got so much energy I’m about to explode.”
