Mood Disorder Quotes

“Bipolar robs you of that which is you. It can take from you the very core of your being and replace it with something that is completely opposite of who and what you truly are. Because my bipolar went untreated for so long, I spent many years looking in the mirror and seeing a person I did not recognize or understand. Not only did bipolar rob me of my sanity, but it robbed me of my ability to see beyond the space it dictated me to look. I no longer could tell reality from fantasy, and I walked in a world no longer my own.”
― Alyssa Reyans, Letters from a Bipolar Mother

“Which of my feelings are real? Which of the me's is me? The wild, impulsive, chaotic, energetic, and crazy one? Or the shy, withdrawn, desperate, suicidal, doomed, and tired one? Probably a bit of both, hopefully much that is neither.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“Violence, especially if you are a woman, is not something spoken about with ease.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“A man holding a woman made of bad moods in his arms.”
― Laura Kasischke, Space, in Chains

“It’s one thing to get up on the wrong side of the bed and quite another to live your life that way.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, BECOME: Unleash the Power of Moral Character and Be Proud of the Life You Choose

“...for as long as I could remember, something hadn't felt quite right in my body, like a drawer that's off kilter inside its desk, refusing to slide smoothly in and out, catching as it opens and closes.”
― Megan Farison, Dissonance