I Have A Picture Of Myself In

Women Who Put On A Few Pounds After Starting Lithium Sometimes Say The Cure Is Worse Than The Disease. The Weight Gain Shoots Them Straight Into Depression.

We Have Developed This Unbelievable Ability To Deny. We Have To. If We Didn't, We'd Go Crazy.

I Think My Real Depressions Started When I Was About 16 And Doing The Patty Duke Show. I Would Go To Bed At About 10 O'clock On A Friday Night And Not Get Up Again Until 6:30 Monday Morning

I Still Have Highs And Lows, Just Like Any Other Person. What's Missing Is The Lack Of Control Over The Super Highs, Which Became Destructive, And The Super Lows, Which Are Immediately Destructive.

I Never Did Quite Fit The Glamour Mode. It Is Life With My Husband And Family That Is My High Now.