Suicide Is Not A Blot On Anyone’s

Nothing Good Comes Out Of Depression.

There Is A Particular Kind Of Pain, Elation, Loneliness, And Terror Involved In This Kind Of Madness. When You're High It's Tremendous. The Ideas And Feelings Are Fast And Frequent Like Shooting Stars....but, Somewhere, This Changes. The Fast Ideas Are Far Too Fast, And There Are Far Too Many; Overwhelming Confusion Replaces Clarity. Everything Previously Moving With The Grain Is Now Against-you Are Irritable, Angry, Frightened, Uncontrollable....it Will Never End, For Madness Carves Its Own Reality.

Mania Can Be As Terrifying As It Gets. It Is Certainly As Insane As One Gets And So It's Frightening When It Gets Out Of Control, But There Are Periods Of Mania When It Can Be Extremely Attractive.

Never Once, During Any Of My Bouts Of Depression, Had I Been Inclined Or Able To Pick Up A Telephone And Ask A Friend For Help. It Wasn't In Me.

Love, Like Life, Is Much Stranger And Far More Complicated Than One Is Brought Up To Believe.