Top 163 Bipolar Quotes & Sayings

In The Greens Are Gone, I play a character that's bipolar, so that was a big step and quite a challenge.

I live with being bipolar, but it doesn't define me anymore.

I can't be normal. I'm probably bipolar.

As lives go, I'll take the quietly desperate over the radically bipolar.

If you give a bipolar man a mic, I don't know what you expect.

I don't want to be caught ... ashamed of anything. And because generally someone who has bipolar doesn't have just bipolar, they have bipolar, and they have a life and a job and a kid and a hat and parents, so its not your overriding identity, it's just something that you have, but not the only thing - even if it's quite a big thing.

Bipolar disorder is something that is mine. And it is very difficult to talk about it.

I was diagnosed as bipolar.

Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.

Being bipolar is a huge exaggeration of your emotions. You can be pretty high and also terribly low, so I've been through it all.

I'm a bit fashion bipolar. I either really go for it or people think I'm a homeless person.

There are times when I think being bipolar gives me the ability to see and want and write things that other people cannot and do not. One of those is writing. Creativity is something that co-presents with bipolarity. There are other times when being bipolar legitimately sucks and leads you to a point where you want to kill yourself. Very odd thing when your brain which, evolutionarily speaking, should want you to survive is telling you to die.

Playing an unstable, bipolar, multiple-personality-disorder person is definitely up my alley.

My doctor says, 'You've got one of the hardest ones to treat because it's not bipolar, it's not up and down, you're always just about a quart low in the mood department.

There is almost no evidence that diagnoses such as 'schizophrenia' and 'bipolar disorder' correspond to discrete entities ('natural kinds' in the language of philosophy).

I never found out until I went into treatment that I was bipolar.

I don't find anything upsetting or gross or degrading about fighting with a mental illness: Bipolar or Schizophrenia.

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.

I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder when I was barely out of my teens. Like our olive skin tone and caterpillar eyebrows, I guess it just runs in the family.

I love bipolar people.

Part of the frustration of being bipolar is people don't understand what it feels like.

Even bipolar vampires needed sleep from time to time, and he was well past his recommended safe dosage of stress.

I have a type of bipolar that swings up and down all day long. There are significant mood swings within a day, within a week, within a month. I go through at least four major episodes a year. That's really the definition of bipolar rapid cycle. But I have ultra-rapid, so I have tiny little episodes all day long.

Because I teach and write about depression and bipolar illness, I am often asked what is the most important factor in treating bipolar disorder. My answer is competence. Empathy is important, but competence is essential.

For bipolar in adults, I think there's pretty good agreement about what this looks like. For bipolar in children, there is some considerable debate about where are the boundaries. At the mild end, are these just kids who are active? Is this the class clown at the very severe - is this something other than a mood disorder?

Where would the memoir be without bipolar writers? I mean, that's what - that whole oversharing thing is really a very clear symptom of bipolar disorder. And I'm not saying that every, you know, I'm not accusing every memoirist of being bipolar. But I think in a way it's kind of a gift.

I met a bipolar bear. He laughed, cried, then wanted a threesome.

It's hard to be bipolar and bicoastal at the same time.

People with bipolar disorder have difficulty with boundaries.

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.

I'm bipolar, but I'm not crazy, and I never was. I'm stark raving sane.

Everything in nature is bipolar, or has a positive and a negative pole.

One of things so bad about depression and bipolar disorder is that if you don't have prior awareness, you don't have any idea what hit you.

There are many different forms of bipolar and the way that it expresses itself.

I was a violent, bipolar, compulsive liar. I was a real American.

The truth is I was suffering from bipolar disorder. It went on for 18 months, during which I changed four doctors, the medication wasn't working on me, and crazy things were happening.

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

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

Evidence is strongly suggesting Bipolar Disorder - previously known as Manic Depression - may be dramatically increasing in modern society.

I'm kind of bipolar in my acting choices because I just want to do a little bit of everything.

I have family members that are bipolar. One had a case recently that I witnessed, and it was very, very helpful.

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?

Bipolar indicates that you're not - you don't just experience depression, but the mood swing goes up, and it can go very up.

Bipolar depression really got my life off track, but today I'm proud to say I am living proof that someone can live, love, and be well with bipolar disorder when they get the education, support and treatment they need.

I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I'm not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief.

Most of the conversation about how geopolitics is changing in the 21st century focuses on the shift from west to east and on how we're moving from the bipolar power equation of the Cold War to a new bipolar relationship, that of the U.S. and China, that determines the mood music for everyone else.

After my head injury, I was, like, bipolar, an emotional wreck.

I was sober for, like, a year and a half, and I was 25, and I actually did have a manic episode, and I was diagnosed as bipolar.

It's a daily struggle for me to stay alive. I don't mean to be melodramatic, hyperbolic, or go into my broadcast mode. But even that, my career is bipolar.

I have family members that are bipolar.

Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There's very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I'm lucky enough that it's reasonably mild in my case.

I know I'm not bipolar or schizophrenic, but this career allows you to explore, to take some facets of yourself and spin it.

People who are bipolar, they kind of latch onto things that are fanatical sometimes.

Not bipolar, but I lean towards manicness and then lowness.

I had developed manic depression [bipolar disorder] ... and the main symptoms the constant voice in the head telling you to kill yourself.

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.

I'm kind of effectively bipolar.

If you have a friend or a family member who's bipolar, or has panic attack disorder, or is depressed, read up on it a little bit so you can get to know where they're coming from.

Sometimes when you have bipolar you have days you are grumpy and not feeling yourself.

The Hulk, a being of pure tortured id, bipolar mania unbound, sprung from the subconscious of a repressed, scientist with a dark childhood.