At first, addiction is maintained by pleasure, but the intensity of this pleasure gradually diminishes and the addiction is then maintained by the avoidance of pain.

Frank Tallis

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Mental problems feed on the attention that you give them. The more you worry about them, the stronger they become. If you ignore them, they lose their power and finally vanish.

Annamalai Swami

Depression and anxiety are a symptom of too much consumption and too little creation. You were put on this earth to create.

When under the strain of bipolar's strongest symptoms, we certainly can make selfish decisions, but that doesn't make us selfish people. In fact, because we have struggled and known such depths of darkness, our compassion runs deeper.

I have an unfortunate personality.

Because of my bipolar disorder, I tend to these mixed states, which are depressed but loud and agitated. So I can be terribly irritable. I go to cognitive behavioral therapy in order not to yell at my children.

There will always be something you can be doing better at. Don't punish yourself for it.

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