Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ellen Frank

Our study shows that this form of psychotherapy is helpful to many people with bipolar disorder. Second, it shows that the type of psychotherapy we choose for a patient should depend on the individual's circumstances. Treatment for bipolar is not 'one-size-fits-all.' We have shown that IPSRT is a powerful tool in the prevention of illness recurrence.

Carrie Fisher

Then I overdosed at 28, at which point I began to accept the bipolar diagnosis.

Carrie Fisher

So when I was 24, someone suggested to me that I was bipolar, and I thought that was ridiculous. I just thought he was trying to get out of treating me. But he was also responding to the chaotic nature of my life.

Carrie Fisher

I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I'm never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It's like being a diabetic.

Anthony Storr

I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.

Kay Redfield Jamison

There are scientists all around the world looking for the genes responsible for bipolar illness and major depression.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Several politicians and wives of politicians have been public about their experiences with depression or bipolar illness, including Lawton Chiles, Patrick Kennedy, Tipper Gore and Kitty Dukakis. Each made a tremendous difference by doing so.

Adam Ant

Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.

Eric Millegan

Bipolar disorder is a scary disease, but it is manageable. And I feel blessed that I was able to get the right attention and the right medication to deal with my specific illness.

John Hull

Our starting point then was trying to find a way to incorporate mean reversion into the HoLee model.

Wilson Alvarez

I'm here trying to do it one more time. I'm doing it for my kids. I'm doing it for my wife. I'm doing it for my teammates. So they can all say you've still got it.

Bebe Neuwirth

Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.

Beck

With my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me to go to.

Beck

I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I wrinkled my nose, trying to figure out what he smelled like. Not cigarettes. Something richer, fouler. Cigars.

B. B. King

I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.

Billy Corgan

I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.

Billy Corgan

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.

Laura Bush

I think it's ridiculous. It's a ridiculous comment, that's what I think.

Napoleon Bonaparte

From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.

Lord Shaftesbury

Nothing is more ridiculous than ridicule.

Barbara Kingsolver

I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.

Edward Abbey

Some lives are tragic, some ridiculous. Most are both at once.

Donald Judd

If a chair or a building is not functional … it is ridiculous.

Daniel Craig

I'm obsessive enough about getting fit, it's ridiculous. I'm 40 now, and I've got to stop doing it soon. I have to start getting fat and old!

Dylan Moran

I've lived in the UK for longer than I lived in Ireland. I'm not worried about myself, but it's ridiculous for youngsters.

Anais Nin

He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity.