A Diagnosis Is Burden Enough Without Being

My Tides Were Fluctuating, Too - Back And Forth, Back And Forth - Sometimes So Fast They Seemed To Be Spinning. They Call This 'rapid Cycling.' It's A Marvel That A Person Can Appear To Be Standing Still When The Mood Tides Are Sloshing Back And Forth, Sometimes Sweeping In Both Directions At Once. They Call That A 'mixed State.'

I Have Been Fiercely Private, In Part Because I Could Never Understand How A Journalist Could Be Otherwise. I Was Also The Mother Of Small Children, And Security Concerns Were Paramount.

I'm Not Driven By Killer Ambition. I'm Not A Workaholic. I'm A Good Team Player. I Don't Have To Be Captain, But I Do Want To Play On A Winning Team.

It's Like If People Don't See You On Tv Every Day, They Think You're In Cryogenics Somewhere.

My Goal Is To See That Mental Illness Is Treated Like Cancer.