Andy Behrman Quotes

#1. The guilt I felt for having a mental illness was horrible. I prayed for a broken bone that would heal in six weeks. But that never happened. I was cursed with an illness that nobody could see and nobody knew much about.

Andy Behrman

#2. A cage that cannot be seen is no less there than if the walls were made of steel.

Joelle Charbonneau

#3. People can get crazier as they get older. I can just be weird whenever I want, and there's the freedom of not caring what people think.

Candice Bergen

#4. I couldn't sleep for nights on end, as my brain felt like there were thoughts colliding within it; I obsessed over small details, from saving pennies and polishing each one of them to washing my clothing over and over in the washing machine.

Andy Behrman

#5. Like most manic depressives, some of my symptoms included racing thoughts that I simply had to act upon - flying from New York to Paris and taking the train to Berlin; flying to Argentina in the middle of the night; spending tens of thousands of dollars on unnecessary garments, dinners and gifts.

Andy Behrman

#6. 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.

Andy Behrman

#7. It's hard and continuous dedication that brings lasting results.

Jane Powell

#8. My eating habits are the only behaviour of mine that are still manic. I can't walk by a restaurant, a bakery, an ice-cream store or a candy store without making a purchase; the amount of calories I take in today are at least five times as many as I took before starting on all of this medication.

Andy Behrman

#9. After graduation in June of 1984, I moved to Manhattan. My first stop was a psychiatrist, who in less than our first fifty-minute session again diagnosed me with depression.

Andy Behrman

#10. Compassion is the greatest form of love humans have to offer.

Rachel

#11. I counterfeited Mark Kostabi's artworks. During the eighties, Mark didn't paint his own paintings. Instead, he had other artists painting them, and he just added his signature. So what I did was to use some of the same painters, and signed his name myself.

Andy Behrman

#12. 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

#13. Rid the mind of knowledge when looking for pleasure. Or start thinking and find a lot of pain.

J.P. Donleavy

#14. President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of - Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown.

Newt Gingrich

#15. There are lots of people with mental health disabilities, and that's just the way their life is; it's not like you see it in the movies.

Andy Behrman

#16. We need deep cleansing of our thoughts on and often so that we can recharge our energy for our own health, happiness and purpose

Kishore Bansal

#17. I felt like I was the only person on the planet with this 'thing called depression', and I remember being frightened. I was knocked out and dopey, and I cried all of the time.

Andy Behrman

#18. 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 wasn't lying in bed.

Andy Behrman

#19. When I'm manic, I'm so awake and alert, that my eyelashes fluttering on the pillow sound like thunder.

Andy Behrman

#20. In my most psychotic stages, I imagine myself chewing on sidewalks and bulging and swallowing sunlight and clouds.

Andy Behrman

#21. In total, I was diagnosed with depression by eight psychotherapists and psychiatrists over a period of thirteen years. Diagnosed wrong. Absolutely wrong. My accurate diagnosis was manic depression, or what we call bipolar disorder today.

Andy Behrman

#22. As no one knew much about my mental illness, a lot of people had the attitude that I had the capability to 'kick it' and get better instantly. This was the most frustrating attitude for me.

Andy Behrman

#23. I think almost all manic depressives exhibit some kind of criminal behaviour, even if it's something as minimal as shoplifting, but then they often go on to bigger and better things - in my case, it was fraud.

Andy Behrman

#24. Old truths and ancient magic, revolution and invention, all conspire to distract us from the passion that in one way or another defeats us all.

Anne Rice

#25. If a man would commit an inexpiable offence against any society, large or small, let him be successful. They will forgive any crime except that.

Charles Dickens

#26. Friends and family were convinced I was functioning just fine because I was efficient, productive and successful - who wouldn't be working twenty hour days? I had everybody fooled with my illness.

Andy Behrman

#27. My illness is one often characterized by dramatic overspending - in my case through frenzied shopping sprees, credit card abuse, excessive hoarding of unnecessary material goods and bizarre generosity with family, friends and even strangers.

Andy Behrman

#28. Once again, it must be reiterated that beliefs and practices that developed in response to earlier, and presumably different, environmental pressures tend to persist, and the result may come to be far less than efficient utilization of an environment

Don Edward Beck

#29. For me, acting comes straight from the heart. In that sense I don't act at all. I think that to feel the character's pain I have to be myself. Somewhere audiences see that.

Salman Khan

#30. The values of science and the values of democracy are concordant, in many cases indistinguishable.

Carl Sagan

#31. Biographers, by their very nature, want to know everything about everybody, dead or alive.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

#32. I think, when it comes to psychiatry, that a lot of people are overmedicated. I think when it comes to ECT a lot of people go through too much. I think there's a lot of guesswork in psychiatry.

Andy Behrman

#33. A radiant full moon of silver hangs in the black sky, between the veils of misty clouds.

Moonshine Noire

#34. I'm always open, and will criticize myself, too. And I just think being that honest with everybody puts you in a different space than somebody who's just shooting venom at a certain group or a certain amount of individuals.

Ice Cube

#35. People accuse me of glamorizing mental illness. Looking back sometimes, that's true. But I don't feel guilty.

Andy Behrman

#36. My ever-present mania meant I was never phased by staying up twenty hours a day or by the different time zones. I was Superman.

Andy Behrman

#37. Most nights, I'm good for only four or five hours of sleep. That leaves the other 20. I have to fill them some way.

Andy Behrman