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“A period of lewdness and shamelessness exists with the highest type of manic delirium.”

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Aretaeus of Cappadocia was a renowned physician in ancient Greece, whose life and contributions hold significant importance in the history of medicine. more

“A very common symptom in maniacal conditions is erotic excitement. This varies from mere coquetry, a somewhat extended application of the command "love one another", an undue attention to the opposite sex, and so forth, up to the extreme of salacity, when the mind is wholly occupied by the urgent sexual appetite, and all restraint is abandoned.”

Mind Sex Common Attention Conditions Opposites Mere Extremes Command Excitement Application Appetite Abandoned Restraint Symptoms Erotic Urgent Vary Bipolar Love One Another Coquetry

Author:Daniel Hack Tuke

“Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.”

Certain House Expensive Unusual Articles Unnecessary Furniture Bipolar Extravagance Mania

Author:Benjamin Rush

“When I am high I couldn't worry about money of I tried. So I don't. The money will come from from somewhere; I am entitled; God will provide. Credit cards are disastrous, personal checks worse. Unfortunately, for manics anyway, mania is a natural extension of the economy.”

Natural Worry Economy Credit Gods Will Checks Cards Entitled Extensions Credit Card Bipolar Mania God Will Provide

Book:An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“Weekly $25,000 shopping binges at Barney's and "high end" boutiques for clothes I barely wore were the norm. So were lavish meals with friends where I picked up $1000 tabs. These high-priced activities were within my limits because I was extremely successful financially, a testament to my manic behavior, not to mention my involvement in illegal activities.”

Ends Successful Activity Limits Behavior Clothes Meals Illegal Shopping Testament Norm Involvement Bipolar Manic Binge Illegal Activities

Author:Andy Behrman

“Suicide is what the death certificate says when one dies of depression.”

Dies Suicide Bipolar Certificates

Author:Peter D. Kramer

“Then I overdosed at 28, at which point I began to accept the bipolar diagnosis.”

Accepting Diagnosis Bipolar

Author:Carrie Fisher

“I'm going to be a superstar musician, kill myself, and go out in a flame of glory.”

Want Rich Musician Glory Flames Superstar Bipolar Hendrix

Author:Kurt Cobain

“I'm not worried about what's going to happen when I'm thirty, because I am never going to make it to thirty. You know what life is like after thirty - I don't want that.”

Knows Want Happens Life Is Worried Thirty Life Is Like Bipolar

Author:Kurt Cobain

“The patients often try to starve themselves, to hang themselves, to cut their arteries; they beg that they may be burned, buried alive, driven out into the woods and there allowed to die. One of my patients struck his neck so often on the edge of a chisel fixed on the ground that all the soft parts were cut through to the vertebrae.”

Trying May Dies Cutting Alive Patient Edges Woods Driven Fixed Necks Buried Burned Bipolar Arteries Chisels

Book:Lifetime Editions of Kraepelin in English: Manic-depressive insanity and paranoia

Source: Lifetime Editions of Kraepelin in English: Manic-depressive insanity and paranoia

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