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  • My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle. -- Patty Duke
  • Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
  • I try to meditate every morning. It relaxes me, clears my mind, and sets my day off on the right foot before things get too manic. -- Elle Macpherson
  • The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with. -- Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • 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
  • It's so amazing, standing on the corner -this happened in Washington, D.C. - and somebody comes by in a Cadillac and you hear 'Manic Monday' on the radio, and you don't even know this person, and they're listening to it and singing along with it. Wow! Blows your mind. -- Debbi Peterson
  • Manic depression is a frustratin' mess. -- Jimi Hendrix
  • Manic depressive people often have incredible energy and a slightly skewed, but nonetheless valid, way of looking at things. -- Kathryn Lasky
  • Evidence is strongly suggesting Bipolar Disorder - previously known as Manic Depression - may be dramatically increasing in modern society. -- Gordon Parker
  • Manic depression's touching my soul. I know what I want, but I just don't know how to go about getting it. -- Jimi Hendrix
  • Manic depressives have all the luck; they soar between crashes. The best us regular depressives can do is battle our way up to normal every now and then. -- Tim Sandlin
  • This isn't a picture filled with wonder and a sense of fun; it's so jaded and crass that I almost wonder if it's a highly unscientific experiment designed to gauge how little audiences will settle for these days. Manic and multicolored, Speed Racer is an excess of nothingness. -- Stephanie Zacharek
  • Manic depression is a type of depression, technically, and it's the opposite of uni-polar. Manic depression is also called bi-polar disorder. Some people don't like to call it that because they think it makes it sound too nice, when the reality is if you have manic-depression you have manic-depression. -- Andy Behrman
  • I don't find I'm manic at all. I'm very chill. -- Kirsten Dunst
  • Alright, so I'm a manic depressive. What do you want from me? -- Claire Forlani
  • The world of manic depression is a world of bad judgment calls. -- Carrie Fisher
  • A period of lewdness and shamelessness exists with the highest type of manic delirium. -- Aretaeus of Cappadocia
  • When I'm manic, I'm so awake and alert, that my eyelashes fluttering on the pillow sound like thunder. -- Andy Behrman
  • Sometimes I get a little manic and you can't stop me. I'm all over the place. I have fun -- Dom DeLuise
  • I was a manic and eccentric kid. In my head I was very busy, so I must have seemed weird. -- David A. Stewart
  • Get a life. A real life. Not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house. -- Anna Quindlen
  • Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly abolished. -- Karl Abraham
  • I joke around a lot about the manic times because they're funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature. -- Patty Duke
  • I've had this problem since I was in my 20s. They don't call it manic depression anymore. They call it a bipolar disorder, and I'm a Type 2. -- Ned Beatty
  • I've had this problem since I was in my 20s. They don't call it manic depression anymore. They call it a bipolar disorder, and I'm a Type 2? -- Ned Beatty
  • I finally came to terms with manic depression and lithium. I've taken lithium regularly for the past few years and have had no further bouts with manic depression. -- Charley Pride
  • Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work. -- Adam Ant
  • Do I perform sometimes in a manic style? Yes. Am I manic all the time? No. Do I get sad? Oh yeah. Does it hit me hard? Oh yeah. -- Robin Williams
  • I have social anxiety. It's easier up on stage because there's security in being there. When I'm off stage I'm trying not to be a manic freak. I'm quite shy. -- Sia Furler
  • I suffer from manic-depressive disorder, and I've chosen not to take medication for it. Because of that, every once in a while I go through manic episodes and really depressed episodes. -- Scott Weiland
  • Being heartbroken is like having this really horrible freedom. You can be selfish with your thoughts, which can lead to manic creativity, but at the same time you're just really miserable. -- Florence Welch
  • I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like. -- Carrie Fisher
  • With a lot of comedians, one of their major attributes is that they look comedic, with a certain hangdog or manic expression. I look like the neighborhood bully. That doesn't elicit laughter. -- Sylvester Stallone
  • You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate. -- Jenifer Lewis
  • Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can't understand what they are saying. It's a mental illness. I have been diagnosed as a manic depressive. -- Brian Wilson
  • I don't know what other singers feel when they articulate lyrics, but being an 18-karat manic-depressive and having lived a life of violent emotional contradictions, I have an overacute capacity for sadness as well as elation. -- Frank Sinatra
  • You know how most illnesses have symptoms you can recognize? Like fever, upset stomach, chills, whatever. Well, with manic depression, it's sexual promiscuity, excessive spending, and substance abuse - and that just sounds like a fantastic weekend in Vegas to me! -- Carrie Fisher
  • 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. -- Marya Hornbacher
  • The first person who ever told me that happiness was work was this manic-depressive artist I knew when I was in my 20s. I was like, 'What are you talking about? Happiness just happens. That's even the root of that word. How could it be work? -- Ariel Gore
  • I learned that I suffered from bipolar II disorder, a less serious variant of bipolar I, which was once known as manic depression. The information was naturally frightening; up to 1 in 5 people with bipolar disorder will commit suicide, and rates may even be higher for those suffering from bipolar II. -- Ayelet Waldman
  • When I taught writing classes to psychiatric patients, I met people whose stories of manic highs and immobilizing lows appeared to be textbook descriptions of classic bipolar disorder. I met other patients who had been diagnosed with myriad disorders. No doctor seemed to agree about what they actually suffered from. -- Siri Hustvedt
  • No, I'm not very productive at all. I'm probably like an animal. I mean, great animals in the ocean feed all the time. I'm someone who procrastinates, worries, for most of a month, and then I'll have a flurry of manic productivity with a sense of great urgency and fear for, like, two days. -- Jonathan Ames
  • Money is a huge issue for manic depressives. Sometimes the problem is not nearly on the same scale as it has been for me, but nonetheless, it's difficult to deal with. Many get themselves into debt that can take years to clear up, write bad cheques, shoplift and borrow huge amounts from family and friends. -- Andy Behrman
  • Weekly $25,000 shopping binges at Barney's and "high end" boutiques for clothes I barely wore were the norm. So were lavish meals with friends where I picked up $1000 tabs. These high-priced activities were within my limits because I was extremely successful financially, a testament to my manic behavior, not to mention my involvement in illegal activities. -- Andy Behrman
  • 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
  • A sense of electrical current was part of my own experience of being manic. The sensation that my mind was spinning and overheating would sometimes build to a sensation like an electrical short - a burst of light, a melting, or dissipating - and I'd get a metallic taste in my mouth, like when you lick a battery. -- Ellen Forney
  • Like every normal person, I hate my voice. And I am not the only one who hates my voice. The voiceover gets a lot of strong reactions. A lot of people love it, and a few people truly hate it and pronounce the films are unwatchable because of my Latvian accent. But it also has a certain level of theatricality, and everything is important for a manic character. -- Signe Baumane
  • Manic-depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live. It is an illness that is biological in its origins, yet one that feels psychological in the experience of it, an illness that is unique in conferring advantage and pleasure, yet one that brings in its wake almost unendurable suffering and, not infrequently, suicide. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
  • Remember that the stock market is manic-depressive. -- Warren Buffett
  • A little manic was what their house ran on. -- Rainbow Rowell
  • I'm manic-depressive, technically bi-polar II with many borderline features. -- Kate Braverman
  • You can have manic-depression without having an ounce of creativity. -- Patty Duke
  • Homicide central, East New York, Where the manic-depressive psycho murderers stalk -- Jeru the Damaja
  • You can have manic depression without having an ounce of creativity -- Patty Duke
  • I'm not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess. -- Gavin Rossdale
  • All writers are egomaniacal, manic-depressive, drug-addicted alcoholics. You want to have that fix again. -- T.C. Boyle
  • I am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe." "'Know thyself.'" "We try, sir. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
  • I'm heavily medicated yet happily manic, I've been stuck on hypo mania for years. -- Stanley Victor Paskavich
  • My dad is actually a manic depressive, which is very exciting half the time. -- Marc Maron
  • Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he's happy, the other half he's right. -- Robert Breault
  • Just saying no to drugs is like just saying cheer up to a manic depressant -- Steven Tyler
  • For a sunrise or a sunset, you're manic or you're depressed. Will you ever feel ok? -- Conor Oberst
  • Recent studies have shown that approximately 40% of authors are manic depressive. The rest of us just drink. -- Melodie Campbell
  • Sometimes I get a little manic and you can't stop me. I'm all over the place. I have fun. -- Dom DeLuise
  • My pregnancy was great, but the last three weeks were manic because my blood pressure was going up and up. -- Gurinder Chadha
  • Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair. -- Steven G. Krantz
  • What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance. -- Igor Stravinsky
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  • Zaphod Beeblebrox, adventurer, ex-hippie, good-timer (crook? quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terrible bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch. -- Douglas Adams
  • My character in 'Running With Scissors' is manic-depressive. She starts out as a wonderfully eccentric person, and then descends into a terrible illness. -- Annette Bening
  • I really like when people do 'stream of consciousness' tweeting, or when people's tweets come across as sort of manic and mostly unedited. -- Mira Gonzalez
  • The door of the novel, like the door of the poem, also shuts. But not so fast, nor with such manic, unanswerable finality. -- Sylvia Plath
  • Hey everybody, this is Rob Halford from Fight wishing you all a crazy heavy metal Christmas and an insane, wild manic New Year! -- Rob Halford
  • 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
  • I go from being hugely hopeful and entertaining to... really not. I'm not manic depressive, but I can really go to the darker side. -- Selma Blair
  • I have not been an easygoing guy. I think it's called bipolar manic depression. I've got a rich history of that in my family. -- Ben Stiller
  • I'm kind of a manic exerciser. I'll like exercise for a week and be crazy, and then I won't do it for six months. -- Jane Lynch
  • Alcohol had a lot to do with it, too, and mental instability. All writers are narcissistic, manic-depressive drug addicts and alcoholics, and I am no exception. -- T.C. Boyle
  • I believe there is a reason such as autism, severe manic-depression, and schizophrenia remain in our gene pool even though there is much suffering as a result. -- Temple Grandin
  • I don't assign myself to the names of any religious or non religious groups I prefer my actions and beliefs to be manic or marvelous just like me -- Stanley Victor Paskavich
  • If you like capitalism, you will positively love depressions, because they are one and the same, like manic-depressives and their cycles, like spouse-abusers and their storms of violence. -- Kenny Smith
  • Fizz had a phrase for those manic occasions when you scaled every final peak, fell off the other side and passed out. Mightysatiety. The oblivion of maximum pleasure. -- Tarun J. Tejpal
  • I was brought up with a lot of love in my family, and I've always been supported. My family has always protected me in a sort of manic way. -- Erik Hassle
  • I've come to understand that migraine is a part of the personality. I have migraine troughs. These often follow high productivity. I have a hypo-manic phase, then I'll crash. -- Siri Hustvedt
  • I feel like schizoid is a precursor to schizophrenia or manic depression. I feel like I'm manic. I have parts of schizoid, parts of Asperger's. I'm a smorgasbord of neuroses. -- Jim Shaw
  • We're all misfits herefrom our weirdnesses and our differences, from our manic fixations, our obsessions, our passions. From all those wild and wacky things that make each of us unique. -- Terri Windling
  • 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
  • Saw fans are manic, when it comes to details, so they're going to say, "Wait a minute! Why is that like that? It wasn't like that before." And, they're right. -- Tobin Bell
  • At the top of the cycle you write policies for everybody, no matter how bad, and at the bottom you cancel everybody, no matter how good. It's a manic-depressive cycle. -- Robert Hunter
  • I actually stopped talking. I actually listened. So I knew that I wasn't all the way manic, because when you're all the way manic you never listen to anybody but yourself. -- Terri Cheney
  • I have manic energy. What can be done about it? I don't know what to say sometimes. I'm professional in public, but I like to stay inside and be a hermit. -- Ben Folds
  • Oh, the ongoing love affair between hair and mouths. Hair always goes for the mouth. The mouth opens, and hair says, "I'm going in! I'm going in!" like a manic cave diver. -- Maureen Johnson
  • I had a husband who, I'm convinced, was an undiagnosed manic depressive. He didn't treat me as if I had a brain - I was just this beautiful little doll he could show off. -- Britt Ekland
  • Telling someone who is manic that she's manic is like telling a dictator that he's a dick. Neither is going to admit it, and both are willing to torture you to prove their points. -- Melody Moezzi
  • I do worry about young people in the business who have experienced a lot of success and are punted around doing those manic publicity trails, when you don't really know who you are yet. -- Sally Hawkins
  • If you're manic-depressive and you're functioning in this world and doing it all well, I think, wow, you should be proud of being able to say, this is what I'm getting through right now. -- Carrie Fisher
  • 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
  • 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
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