Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with childhood bipolar disorder in the U.S.

I was much crazier than I had imagined. Or maybe it was a bad idea to read DSM-IV when you're not a trained professional. Or maybe the American Psychiatric Association had a crazy desire to label all life a mental disorder.

I have thought sometimes that the sanest people, the people who are just very balanced, very happy, are probably lower achieving than other people. My kind of irrationality happens to be fear or anxiety.

If I ever get rid of my Bi Polar condition we'll be so happy.

My psychiatrist said "you're BI Polar. I said "tell us something we don't already know".

I've invaded the walls of the asylums with my ink pen. The way they look at mental illness won't be the same again