Quotes About Mental Illness Bipolar

#1. I don't find anything upsetting or gross or degrading about fighting with a mental illness: Bipolar or Schizophrenia.

Kangana Ranaut

#2. It is in my head! That's why it's called Mental Illness.

Roni Askey-Doran

#3. 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.

Shannon Mullen

#4. That's what mountains do, they taunt you, lure you to the freedom of the wilderness, and it is fucking exhilarating.

Shannon Mullen

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

Kay Redfield Jamison

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

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#7. Every one wants to be a Genius. But only the brave choose to go mad to get there ...

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#8. Seeing movies about mental illness, a lot of falseness has leapt out at me over the years. So I just focused on what I remembered, the real experience of seeing somebody like that. And as an adult, I've had family members who are bipolar, so I've seen it again.

Maya Forbes

#9. Falling in love happens so suddenly that it seems, all at once, that you have always been in love.

Marya Hornbacher

#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. The idea to go West just fell into my lap from the sky. Go west, young man. That's how the best ideas happen. Just out of nowhere. When you're not even thinking. Like they've been created for you and you just have to reach out and grab them before someone else does.

Shannon Mullen

#12. That was the crux. You. Only you could work on you. Nobody could force you, and if you weren't ready, then you weren't ready, and no amount of open-armed encouragement was going to change that.

Norah Vincent

#13. When you have mental illness it's common to be shunned by your family or friends it wouldn't happen if they knew the pain you were in.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#14. I get absolutely shitfaced. I am shitfaced and hyper and ten years old. I am having the time of my life.

Marya Hornbacher

#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 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 frequently and obsessively.

Stephen Fry

#17. 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

#18. Been under treatment for PTSD and bipolar since 1992. I'm not ashamed of my illness. I've been shunned by many and I feel for those shunned, too.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#19. Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.

Victor LaValle

#20. Except you cannot outrun insanity, anymore than you can outrun your own shadow.

Alyssa Reyans

#21. You'll never see my books on Vanity Fair I'm not the type of author they would want there

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#22. In the terms of 'Mental Illness' Isn't stable a place they put horses that wish to run free?

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#23. Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character who has bipolar disorder and is also a love-sick vampire attending an English school called Hogwarts. But I'm not giving up.

Pete Earley

#24. My psychiatrist said I had charisma so at least I'm certified

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#25. When you are cursed with a bipolar mind racing thoughts are the ones that you find

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#26. Yes I'm Bipolar but I'm as normal as you except the times when my mind thinks like two

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#27. If you're selfish enough to kill yourself write your suicide note on the back of your will

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#28. I've invaded the walls of the asylums with my ink pen. The way they look at mental illness won't be the same again

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#29. They're the perfect loving fam'ly, so adoring ...
And I love them ev'ry day of ev'ry week.
So my son's a little shit, my husband's boring,
And my daughter, though a genius, is a freak.

Brian Yorkey

#30. When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you.

Marya Hornbacher

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. Because I'm not, in fact, depressed, Prozac makes me manic and numb - one of the reasons I slice my arm in the first place is that I'm coked to the gills on something utterly wrong for what I have.

Marya Hornbacher

#34. Bipolar is an illness not a hopeless destination it can be maintained with proper medication

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#35. Oh! This'll impress you - I'm actually in the Abnormal Psychology textbook. Obviously my family is so proud. Keep in mind though, I'm a PEZ dispenser and I'm in the abnormal Psychology textbook. Who says you can't have it all?

Carrie Fisher

#36. 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

#37. 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 home ...

Juliann Garey

#38. Want to do something noble and courageous while you're on this Earth treat the mentally ill like they have some worth.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#39. Suddenly, I'm lighter, only half of who I was.

Shannon Mullen

#40. I've accepted the fact I have mental illness but when my imaginary friends start calling me crazy that's where I draw the line

Stanley Victor Paskavich

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

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#42. Anxious, depressed, psychotic, lunatic, bipolar, manic - you name it, I attract it. Perhaps you've heard of me? In some circles I am known as the Pied Piper of Mental Illness.

J.L. Black

#43. If every Genius has a touch of Madness, does every Normal person have a touch of Ignorance ?

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#44. Mental illness is not in the business of making sense of itself.

Roni Askey-Doran

#45. Genius by birth, Bipolar by design

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#46. But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania, when most depressed, you're given excellent reason to be even more so.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#47. Because of my bipolar condition I will have to take anti psychotics until I die but hopefully a handful of them won't be the last thing I taste

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#48. I think one thing is that anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's depression, bipolar illness or severe anxiety, whatever - actually has a fair amount of resilience in the sense that they've had to deal with suffering already, personal suffering.

Kay Redfield Jamison

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

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#50. Why do they always prescribe thyroid medicine to go with the mental illness cocktails they whip up?

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#51. When it comes to mental illness most of the diagnoses are similar or the same yet they can never display how we individually go through our pain.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#52. When my mind plays tricks on me I can deal. But when my mind plays tricks on my mind I can not tell what's real

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#53. I admit I have Mental Illness so please no more 'Fruit Cakes' for Christmas Please

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#54. If you can still wipe your own backside then life's not that bad!

E.J. Plows

#55. Bipolar illness, manic depression, manic-depressive illness, manic-depressive psychosis. That's a nice way of saying you will feel so high that no street drug can compete and you will feel so low that you wish you had been hit by a Mack truck instead.

Christine F. Anderson

#56. I'm Bipolar but as normal as you except for the times my mind thinks like two

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#57. Psychosis can happen out of the blue, to anyone, and no one knows why. Not even the best doctors on the planet.
And that's why Mom is always so afraid. If we don't know what made me sick in the first place, how can anyone guarantee I won't flip out again?

Jeannine Garsee

#58. 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