Quotes About Bipolar People

#1. Most people can only sleep with a nice soft pillow I can only sleep with heavy anti psychotics

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#2. Fear is a dangerous thing. Once it is sanctioned by the state there is no telling where it might lead. It is always a short path to walk from being suspicious of our fellow citizens to taking actions to restrict their liberty.

Justin Trudeau

#3. Labels like "bipolar" say This is why you are the way you are. This is who you are. They explain people away as illnesses.

Jennifer Niven

#4. Bipolar and paranoid. Throw in schizophrenic and you've hit the trifecta. They have padded rooms for people like you. Some of them even come with a view.

Cindy Gerard

#5. 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.

Stephen Fry

#6. Many people say that psychiatrists just want to push drugs. Well I seriously have to say, without medication, I'd be locked up in a VA hospital somewhere.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#7. If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.

Gail Sheehy

#8. I think people don't understand how intimately tied suicide is to mental illness, particularly to depressive illness and bipolar illness.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#9. If you know people who are suicidal, or if you know people who are bipolar, depressed, have panic attack disorder, just be there for them. They're going through something that's very, very hard.

Eric Millegan

#10. I'm really into personalities. There have been certain girls that I've been attracted to, but when we got to chatting, it was such a let-down. So for me, a great personality is key.

Olly Murs

#11. I have people in my family with bipolar disorder, and for years I've watched them struggle with the disorder's extreme moods and often devastating consequences.

Jenna Blum

#12. Bipolar disorder is so swept under the rug as a nation and, I think especially, by black people. It's not our culture to go get therapy. 'Give them medicine for what?' We put people in court, put them in court again, versus really paying attention to what it is they are going through.

Trai Byers

#13. As far as me and fame, from my creations I'll be dead and famous long before I know it.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#14. The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

George Bernard Shaw

#15. 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.

Marya Hornbacher

#16. I was hoping that I could say stuff about mental illness that maybe people didn't know. You know, speak up for bipolar disorder and let people know a little bit more about it that they may not have known.

Eric Millegan

#17. In every failure, there's the seed to even greater success. However, people waste their time complaining, instead of looking for the seed among the rubble of what was.

Mauricio Chaves Mesen

#18. We are all gifted, but we have to discover the gift, uncover the gift, nurture and develop the gift and use it for the Glory of God and for the liberation struggle of our people.

Louis Farrakhan

#19. People with bipolar disorder have difficulty with boundaries.

Claire Danes

#20. Posterity will jump to conclusions: that is its nature.

Julian Barnes

#21. People with mental illnesses aren't wrapped up in themselves because they are intrinsically any more selfish than other people. Of course not. They are just feeling things that can't be ignored. Things that point the arrows inward.

Matt Haig

#22. These days, all I ask Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one degree or another.

Dean Koontz

#23. In the United States, people with depression, bipolar, and schizophrenia are losing twelve to twenty years in life expectancy compared to people not in the mental health system. (176)

Robert Whitaker

#24. There is a dead space between most people and those afflicted with Mental Illness and it's called Understanding

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#25. They say people who are bipolar see colors differently when in a manic state. What did Emme see when I showed her the photo a few days later?

Jan Ellison

#26. We all ended up somewhere with our various uncertain lives flapping about us in tatters and our pockets full of foreign coins.

Karen Elizabeth Gordon

#27. This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques.

Robert Genn

#28. Sensitive people usually love deeply and hate deeply. They don't know any other way to live than by extremes because thier emotional theromastat is broken.

Shannon L. Alder

#29. For all the normal people who make fun of the mentally ill it's spelled K.A.R.M.A. and it's pronounced your days coming, Bitch!

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#30. These days, all I ask of Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one degree or another ... Most good people have a sense of humor. The problem is finding smile-inducing evil people, because the evil are mostly humorless.

Dean Koontz

#31. Losing even a single night's sleep can precipitate a manic episode in people with bipolar disorder who have otherwise been stable (Malkoff-Schwartz et al. 1998). In parallel, sleep deprivation can improve the mood of a person with depression, although only briefly (Harvey, 2008).

David J. Miklowitz

#32. What most people call talent is our way to vent, and if we're not discovered it will never pay the rent.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#33. Bipolar and its accompanying symptoms and behavior presentations are a medical condition, not a moral or character flaw! This is the most difficult thing for people to understand.

Aspen Morrow

#34. In Serbia a lot of people hate me because they want to westernize, not understanding that the western world is bipolar, with very good things and very bad things.

Emir Kusturica

#35. When you read my poems or quotes remember you're stepping into the mind that steps outside of me

Stanley Victor Paskavich