Funny, that.
[On the cruise] I wasn’t sleeping. I was writing on everything. I was writing in books; I would have written on walls…Everything I looked at had a meaning. Everything was a warning or a sign. I was in a part of my brain I’ve only been in one time before.
— Carrie Fisher on her Manic Episode, People Magazine (3/25/13)
I’ve been to that part of my brain…
I have often asked myself whether, given the choice, I would choose to have [bipolar disorder] … Strangely enough I think I would choose to have it. It’s complicated. Depression is awful beyond words or sounds or images … So why would I want anything to do with this illness? Because I honestly believe that as a result of it I have felt more things, more deeply; had more experiences, more intensely; loved more, and been loved; laughed more often for having cried more often; appreciated more the springs, for all the winters; worn death ‘as close as dungarees’, appreciated it – and life – more; seen the finest and the most terrible in people, and slowly learned the values of caring, loyalty and seeing things through.
— Kay Redfield Jamison (via bipolarenlightenment)
The path to empathy.
(via lizmcfrizz)
