#polar

There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous. The ideas and feelings are fast and frequent like shooting stars, and you follow them until you find better and brighter ones. Shyness goes, the right words and gestures are suddenly there, the power to captivate others a felt certainty. There are interests found in uninteresting people. Sensuality is pervasive and the desire to seduce and be seduced irresistible. Feelings of ease, intensity, power, well-being, financial omnipotence, and euphoria pervade one's marrow. But, somewhere, this changes. The fast ideas are far too fast, and there are far too many; overwhelming confusion replaces clarity. Memory goes. Humor and absorption on friends' faces are replaced by fear and concern. Everything previously moving with the grain is now against-- you are irritable, angry, frightened, uncontrollable, and enmeshed totally in the blackest caves of the mind. You never knew those caves were there. It will never end, for madness carves its own reality. ↗

— Kay Redfield Jamison

#mental-illness #psychology #change

I get absolutely shitfaced. I am shitfaced and hyper and ten years old. I am having the time of my life. ↗

— Marya Hornbacher

#bipolar-disorder #memoir #mental-illness #life

Just to let you know I don't post my books and things on the net in hopes of being rich. The reason is. "I am a person with Bipolar Disorder" and they're are a lot of great minds on the "Famous Bipolar" list that died penniless. If I do the same it's no big deal but having a form of mental Illness I would love to get my name on the Bipolar list also one day. Preferably while I'm still living so I can make sure they spelled it right ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#bipolar-disorder #bipolar-life #mental-illness #psychology #life

As polarized as we have been, we Americans are locked in a cultural war for the soul of our country. ↗

— Patrick Buchanan

#country #cultural #cultural war #locked #our

Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong. ↗

— Ken Mehlman

#am #benefit #chairman #gave #here

I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#america #attention #i #i see #paying

In time your relatives will come to accept the idea that a career is as important to you as your family. Of course, in time the polar ice cap will melt. ↗

— Barbara Dale

#cap #career #come #course #family

Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing. ↗

— Larry J. Sabato

#because #contemporary #every #party #polarizing

We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art. ↗

— Charlie Sheen

#because #before #develops #even #fortune

A concrete agenda and landslide victory might not even guarantee a president his mandate in a capital as polarized as Washington. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#capital #concrete #even #guarantee #his