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When I'm manic, I'm so awake and alert, that my eyelashes fluttering on the pillow sound like thunder.
Andy Behrman / Writer
Eyelashes
Sound
Thunder
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People accuse me of glamorizing mental illness. Looking back sometimes, that's true. But I don't feel guilty.
Andy Behrman / Writer
Guilty
Illness
Looking Back
Mental Illness
Accuse
Looking Back Me Looking
Me Looking People
Mental
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In my most psychotic stages, I imagine myself chewing on sidewalks and bulging and swallowing sunlight and clouds.
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Chewing
Clouds
Imagine
Psychotic
Sunlight
Swallowing
Stages
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Most nights, I'm good for only four or five hours of sleep. That leaves the other 20. I have to fill them some way.
Andy Behrman / Writer
Four
Night
Sleep
Nights
Fill
Leaves
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My ever-present mania meant I was never phased by staying up twenty hours a day or by the different time zones. I was Superman.
Andy Behrman / Writer
Hours
Mania
Staying
Zone
Time Day Never
Meant
Phased
Twenty
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My manic depression was ravaging my life, but because nobody could see it, many people thought it was a figment of my imagination.
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Imagination
Figments
Manic
People
Life Imagination My Life
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There are lots of people with mental health disabilities, and that's just the way their life is; it's not like you see it in the movies.
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Mental Health
Disabilities
Mental
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I am a rapid-cycling manic-depressive, bi-polar one disorder, which means I can have thirty or forty episodes a year, and I used to have thirty to forty episodes a year.
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Cycling
Disorder
Episodes
Forty
Mean
Thirty
Years
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After graduation in June of 1984, I moved to Manhattan. My first stop was a psychiatrist, who in less than our first fifty-minute session again diagnosed me with depression.
Andy Behrman / Writer
Depression
Graduation
June
Manhattan
Session
Diagnosed
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I felt like I was the only person on the planet with this 'thing called depression', and I remember being frightened. I was knocked out and dopey, and I cried all of the time.
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Cried
Frightened
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As no one knew much about my mental illness, a lot of people had the attitude that I had the capability to 'kick it' and get better instantly. This was the most frustrating attitude for me.
Andy Behrman / Writer
Attitude
Capability
Frustrating
Get Better
Illness
Mental Illness
People
Attitude Me Better
Instantly
Mental
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I think, when it comes to psychiatry, that a lot of people are overmedicated. I think when it comes to ECT a lot of people go through too much. I think there's a lot of guesswork in psychiatry.
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Psychiatry
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Friends and family were convinced I was functioning just fine because I was efficient, productive and successful - who wouldn't be working twenty hour days? I had everybody fooled with my illness.
Andy Behrman / Writer
Convinced
Efficient
Fooled
Illness
Friends And Family
Hour
Twenty
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The little depression I experienced during my manic-depression was not like depression as anyone else had ever described it. It was very violent and angry, and I was full of rage. I wasnt lying in bed.
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Bed
Littles
Lying
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The little depression I experienced during my manic-depression was not like depression as anyone else had ever described it. It was very violent and angry, and I was full of rage. I wasn't lying in bed.
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Depression
Angry
Lying
Anyone Else
Experienced
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I think almost all manic depressives exhibit some kind of criminal behaviour, even if it's something as minimal as shoplifting, but then they often go on to bigger and better things - in my case, it was fraud.
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Behaviour
Fraud
Manic
Almost All
Better Things
Criminal
Exhibit
Minimal
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The guilt I felt for having a mental illness was horrible. I prayed for a broken bone that would heal in six weeks. But that never happened. I was cursed with an illness that nobody could see and nobody knew much about.
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Broken
Cursed
Guilt
Heal
Horrible
Illness
Mental Illness
Six
Bone
Weeks
Mental
Prayed
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In total, I was diagnosed with depression by eight psychotherapists and psychiatrists over a period of thirteen years. Diagnosed wrong. Absolutely wrong. My accurate diagnosis was manic depression, or what we call bipolar disorder today.
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Depression
Accurate
Bipolar
Disorder
Manic
Thirteen
Diagnosed
Total
Psychiatrists
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My illness is one often characterized by dramatic overspending - in my case through frenzied shopping sprees, credit card abuse, excessive hoarding of unnecessary material goods and bizarre generosity with family, friends and even strangers.
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Abuse
Bizarre
Credit
Credit Card
Dramatic
Generosity
Goods
Hoarding
Illness
Shopping
Unnecessary
Card
Case
Characterized
Excessive
Material
Strangers
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I couldn't sleep for nights on end, as my brain felt like there were thoughts colliding within it; I obsessed over small details, from saving pennies and polishing each one of them to washing my clothing over and over in the washing machine.
Andy Behrman / Writer
Brain
Details
Pennies
Washing
Within
Nights
Clothing
Each One
Polishing
Washing Machine
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I counterfeited Mark Kostabi's artworks. During the eighties, Mark didn't paint his own paintings. Instead, he had other artists painting them, and he just added his signature. So what I did was to use some of the same painters, and signed his name myself.
Andy Behrman / Writer
Paint
Added
Eighties
Painters
Signature
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My eating habits are the only behaviour of mine that are still manic. I can't walk by a restaurant, a bakery, an ice-cream store or a candy store without making a purchase; the amount of calories I take in today are at least five times as many as I took before starting on all of this medication.
Andy Behrman / Writer
Behaviour
Calories
Candy
Manic
Medication
Bakery
Candy Store
Habits
Purchase
Restaurant
Store
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Like most manic depressives, some of my symptoms included racing thoughts that I simply had to act upon - flying from New York to Paris and taking the train to Berlin; flying to Argentina in the middle of the night; spending tens of thousands of dollars on unnecessary garments, dinners and gifts.
Andy Behrman / Writer
Argentina
Berlin
Dollars
Flying
Garments
Manic
Racing
Symptoms
Unnecessary
Dinners
Gifts
Included
Tens
Tens Of Thousands
Thousands
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Manic depression is a type of depression, technically, and it's the opposite of uni-polar. Manic depression is also called bi-polar disorder. Some people don't like to call it that because they think it makes it sound too nice, when the reality is if you have manic-depression you have manic-depression.
Andy Behrman / Writer
Disorder
Manic
Opposite
Technically
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Money is a huge issue for manic depressives. Sometimes the problem is not nearly on the same scale as it has been for me, but nonetheless, it's difficult to deal with. Many get themselves into debt that can take years to clear up, write bad cheques, shoplift and borrow huge amounts from family and friends.
Andy Behrman / Writer
Family And Friends
Manic
Family Money Me
Scale
Borrow
Nearly
Huge Amounts
Nonetheless
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Weekly $25,000 shopping binges at Barney's and "high end" boutiques for clothes I barely wore were the norm. So were lavish meals with friends where I picked up $1000 tabs. These high-priced activities were within my limits because I was extremely successful financially, a testament to my manic behavior, not to mention my involvement in illegal activities.
Andy Behrman / Writer
Illegal Activities
Shopping
Successful
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Like Sylvia Plath, Natalie Jeanne Champagne invites you so close to the pain and agony of her life of mental illness and addiction, which leaves you gasping from shock and laughing moments later: this is both the beauty and unique nature of her storytelling. With brilliance and courage, the author's brave and candid chronicle travels where no other memoir about mental illness and addiction has gone before. The Third Sunrise is an incredible triumph and Natalie Jeanne Champagne is without a doubt the most important new voice in this genre.
Andy Behrman / Writer
Agony
Pain
Unique
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