Quotes About Bipolar

Being bipolar is a huge exaggeration of your emotions. You can be pretty high and also terribly low, so I've been through it all.

Today, according to the NIMH, bipolar illness affects one in every forty adults in the United States, and so, before we review the outcomes literature for this disorder, we need to try to understand this astonishing increase in its prevalence.9 Although the quick-and-easy explanation is that psychiatry has greatly expanded the diagnostic boundaries, that is only part of the story. Psychotropic drugs—both legal and illegal—have helped fuel the bipolar boom.

If the only time a child looks as if he has bipolar disorder is when he's frustrated, that's not bipolar disorder; that's a learning disability in the domains of flexibility and frustration tolerance.

Mom ignored this as she shifted into the aggressive tone she used at her most manic. By then we'd learned to read Mom's moods; after years on a psychiatrist's couch she'd finally been diagnosed as bipolar, and we'd come to expect the extreme swings that moved through her like weather, altering every aspect of her being. The

the absence of clear boundaries between schizophrenia and bipolar disorders has led some clinicians to prefer the term "psychosis,

We want to conquer the world and have 1,000 likes, 1 million likes, but at the same time, we are depressed. We are lonely, but we have 10,000 followers. We are all bipolar.

There are many different forms of bipolar and the way that it expresses itself.

Part of the frustration of being bipolar is people don't understand what it feels like.

In late 2011, I watched a documentary by Stephen Fry called 'The Secret Life Of The Manic Depressive.' He shared his story of bipolar disorder and depression, and it sounded exactly like me. I just cried.

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.

My personal style is bipolar. Sometimes I feel like dressing in a boyish leather jacket; other times I want to dress more elegantly. Most of the time it's what I like to call 'comfortable chic': Giuseppe Zanotti flat sandals, Rag & Bone jeans, slouchy Isabel Marant shirts.

Several politicians and wives of politicians have been public about their experiences with depression or bipolar illness, including Lawton Chiles, Patrick Kennedy, Tipper Gore and Kitty Dukakis. Each made a tremendous difference by doing so.

I am a rapid-cycling manic-depressive, bi-polar one disorder, which means I can have thirty or forty episodes a year, and I used to have thirty to forty episodes a year.

I wasn't schizophrenic. I wasn't bi-polar. I wasn't dealing with long-term mental illness. I was a sensitive artistic-type who'd been through severe trauma and needed immediate help.

Great powers of all persuasions care deeply about their survival, and there is always the danger in a bipolar or multipolar system that they will be attacked by another great power. In these circumstances, liberal great powers regularly dress up their hard-nosed behavior with liberal rhetoric. They talk like liberals and act like realists. Should they adopt liberal policies that are at odds with realist logic, they invariably come to regret it.

Call it the bipolar's dilemma: Take a chance and we risk losing control of our brains. Play it safe and we isolate ourselves from humanity.

On average, we spend far more of our time in depression than we do in mania or hypomania—by a ratio of three to one for those with bipolar I, according to a major 2003 study. Estimates go much higher for those with bipolar II.

She lives with bipolar disorder, which means she experiences extreme highs and lows in mood and energy.

Sarika couldn't always tell if a manic high or a depressive low was sneaking up on her.

I'm a Bipolar 1, Rapid Cycler. So really easily, if I'm around people that are sick and are not medicated, and there's a lot of people going to AA that should be medicated that are really, truly mentally ill, then I end up being triggered.

Sometimes when you have bipolar you have days you are grumpy and not feeling yourself.

The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it's now more commonly called, is that it's about mood swings. So, you have an elevated mood. When people think of manic depression, they only hear the word depression. They think one's a depressive. The point is, one's a manic-depressive.

A quick glance at the American left reveals a movement in the midst of a nervous breakdown, displaying behavior that goes beyond inconsistency into the realm of bipolar moods and multiple personality disorders.

Jamison's An Unquiet Mind, which details her own struggle with bipolar disorder. A passage stood out for me: "The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful." The Chinese proverb puts things in the imperative. I prefer to phrase it as a gentle invitation: Let's make our beast beautiful.