Ben Lerner Quotes

Even when I'm in a really great, steady and stable place... I'm clinically bipolar, so that always exists - a darkness always exists.

People who are bipolar, they kind of latch onto things that are fanatical sometimes.

It's true that Blake was emotionally disturbed - always has been - but he doesn't have murder in his heart. If he was going to do any damage to anything or anyone, it would be to himself.

I am manic and that leads me to behave badly at times.

I sometimes wonder if I'm a psychopath.

I met a bipolar bear. He laughed, cried, then wanted a threesome.

The plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I've never been really right in the head.

You know, I am kind of a bi-polarish schitzerphrenic. I run the gamut of being incredibly shy and withdrawn to being a crazy-eccentric exhibitionist. And I have always been like that.

Van Gogh was impulsive.

I can't dislike you, but I will say this to you: you haven't got long before you are all going to kill yourselves, because you are all crazy. And you can project it back at me, but I am only what lives inside each and every one of you.

That is the real problem of depression - a condition which will affect an estimated one in five of the population at some point in their lives. It is completely unimaginable until you have been through it.

I knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me.

There's certainly a side of me that isn't completely... sane. Or completely 'even' all the time. We all have our dark sides.

My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.

I spoke so much about being a manic-depressive. I want to bring everyone back to my earliest memories of this companion of mine. Some people call this companion I have an ailment, or worse a terrible nightmare from which some people cannot awaken. I know that I have nothing to be ashamed of. I have nothing that should garner a stigma.

People with bipolar disorder have difficulty with boundaries.

I'm kind of effectively bipolar.

What my research told me is that a psychopath cannot change. You're born like that.

At the age of 19, I removed myself from society for almost four months, setting off years of manic episodes, including outrageous overspending. I bought several Mercedes because I thought I could. I had no money, but I rented a jet.

I was a psycho in college.

Mania is the most destructive of the forces. Everybody around you will tell you you're in trouble, and you can't hear what they are saying.

Manic depression in general is something that runs in my family, and it's something that I battle with.

My personality is extremely unbalanced.

You know how most illnesses have symptoms you can recognize? Like fever, upset stomach, chills, whatever. Well, with manic depression, it's sexual promiscuity, excessive spending, and substance abuse - and that just sounds like a fantastic weekend in Vegas to me!

The real Rose Hovick was seriously mentally disturbed; June Havoc called her a beautiful little ornament that was damaged.