Clive Wild

'I knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me, but I thought it was just that I was not a good person, that I didn't try hard enough.'

 A Brilliant Madness

by Patty Duke

'When people said about me "She's trouble", they weren't kidding.'

Call Me Anna

by Patty Duke

'I was standing with my head back, one pigtail caught between my teeth, listening to the jet overhead.'

An Unquiet Mind

by Kay Redfield Jamison

'The partners of people with bipolar disorder are very similar. You are the ones who stay in the relationship instead of walking away.'

Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder

by Julie A. Fast & John D. Preston

'We of the craft are all crazy," remarked Lord Byron about himself and his fellow poets...'  

Touched With Fire: Manic Depressive

Illnes & The Artistic Temperament

by Kay Redfield Jamison

'This is bullshit. There is nothing good about being bipolar.' 

The Bipolar Advantage

by Tom Wootton

'Living with bipolar disorder is much like living your life on a tightrope-not because you choose to walk that tightrope but because it's the only...' 

Bipolar Disorder Demystified: Mastering

the Tightrope of Manic Depression

by Lana R. Castle

'Martha, 34, ended up in the hospital after storming out of the house, in which she lived with her husband and two school-age children, and spending a disasterous night in a town over two hours away.'

The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide: What

You and Your Family Need to Know

by David J. Miklowitz