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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I wish I could draw you how I see you. I'd draw a boy with the most magnetic smile, and the kindest hands, and eyes that are gloomy, but can sometimes be bright. I'd draw a boy who deserves to see the ocean.”
― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes

“I read it as if it had been written by someone else, although it was my own experience being recounted.

The endless questioning finally ended. My psychiatrist looked at me, there was no uncertainty in his voice. "Maniac-depressive illness." I admired his bluntness. I wished him locusts in his land and a pox upon his house. Silent, unbelievable rage. I smiled pleasantly. He smiled back. The war had just begun,”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“If you think there is something wrong with Bipolar People you might want to Google the Famous Bipolar List. Everyone on it had something wrong with them but obviously for all the right reasons”
― Stanley Victor Paskavich

“No matter how bad your life gets if you Execute yourself it won't get better!”
― Stanley Victor Paskavich

“SE Self Execution the act will always be greater than the pain.”
― Stanley Victor Paskavich

“For some reason the word “chronic” often has to be explained. It does not mean severe, though many chronic conditions can be exceptionally serious and indeed life-threatening. No, “chronic” means persistent over time, enduring, constant. Diabetes is a chronic condition, but measles is not. With measles, you contract it and then it is gone. It can sometimes be fatal, but is never chronic. Manic depression, in other words, is something you have to learn to live with. There are therapies which may help some people to function and function for the most part happily and well. Sometimes a talking therapy, sometimes pharmaceutical intervention helps.”
― Stephen Fry

“Yes I'm Bipolar but I'm as normal as you except the times when my mind thinks like two”
― Stanley Victor Paskavich