Quotes About Being Bipolar

#1. Being bisexual, being bipolar, being biracial - it's been used to define me, but I am desperate to be indefinable.

Halsey

#2. I Hate Being Bipolar. It's Awesome!

L.J. Shen

#3. I get lots of awards for being mentally ill. Apparently, I am better at being mentally ill than almost anything else I've ever done. Seriously - I have a shelf of awards for being bipolar.

Carrie Fisher

#4. 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

#5. Where would the memoir be without bipolar writers? I mean, that's what - that whole oversharing thing is really a very clear symptom of bipolar disorder. And I'm not saying that every, you know, I'm not accusing every memoirist of being bipolar. But I think in a way it's kind of a gift.

Ayelet Waldman

#6. My mother loved the Bible.

Goldie Hawn

#7. I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I'm never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It's like being a diabetic.

Carrie Fisher

#8. You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by.

Ray Bradbury

#9. I can still feel my legs, thanks for asking. My back's not even hurt that badly. Only as though I was just hit by a train.

Jayde Scott

#10. I now know for certain that my mind and emotions, my fix on the real and my family's well-being, depend on just a few grams of salt. But treatment's the easy part. Without honesty, without a true family reckoning, that salt's next to worthless.

David Lovelace

#11. Part of the danger of living so long, knowing you were going to come back and back again, was putting off your life until you never lived it at all. Just so it was possible. Just so long as you could, you never actually did. Just so you didn't ruin it.

Ann Brashares

#12. I'm open about having bipolar disorder. I'm open about being of mixed race. I'm open about being bisexual, and I have this wantingness to talk about it, and for me, it's about more than being a role model for any specific community.

Halsey

#13. But they're being labeled bipolar. That's an enormous label that's going to stay with you for the rest of your life.

Jon Ronson

#14. Perception plays a vital role in the diagnosis of bipolar illness. Symptoms are perceived through the categories of psychiatric medicine at a given moment in history, categories which are continually shifting and being named or renamed.

Siri Hustvedt

#15. Congratulations, you have been chosen to act as Death, it's a dirty job, but someone has to do it.

Christopher Moore

#16. Being honest about being bullied in school and my bipolar was not so much of a 'do I or don't I?'; it was waiting for the right time. Even before I knew what making a mark on the world meant, I knew I wanted to make a difference.

Ruby Rose

#17. It is no harm to accept an invitation of a stranger,
but better visit an occasion of people we know well.

Toba Beta

#18. 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

#19. The Hulk, a being of pure tortured id, bipolar mania unbound, sprung from the subconscious of a repressed, scientist with a dark childhood.

Max Landis

#20. Being colonized automatically makes you bipolar.

Sherman Alexie

#21. Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others.

Don DeLillo

#22. 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

#23. The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is a gain.

Norman Cousins

#24. Being both more systematically brutal than chimps and more empathetic than
bonobos, we are by far the most bipolar ape. Our societies are never completely peaceful, never completely competitive, never ruled by sheer selfishness, and never perfectly moral.

Frans De Waal

#25. Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate ... I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.

Nas

#26. Each of us has a mission ... each of us is called to change the world, to work for a culture of life, a culture forged by love and respect for the dignity of each human person.

Pope Benedict XVI

#27. The music has to drive you. That's just it. You follow it. You follow the songs.

Ronnie Dunn

#28. Thing is, you were pretty memorable that night, too, what with being publicly humiliated, almost shot in the head, and ultimately arrested. So it strikes me as odd that you seem to be doing everything you can to figure out a way to go back there.

Marissa Meyer

#29. Any entrepreneur worth their salt knows that their brand is worthless if it doesn't somehow contribute to society or the overall good of the planet.

Lynda Resnick