My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.

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No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

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I thought that jealousy was an idea. It isn't. It's a pain. But I didn't feel as they do in a Broadway melodrama. I didn't want to kill anybody. I just wanted to die.

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