The reading and writing world is full of quotes. I found some quotes that fit well with some of the different stages I have experienced with my disorders. It turned out to be a very interesting activity.

Depression:

“And the worst thing about it was that you began to feel as if you had always lived on that ship, in that darkness, and to wonder whether sun and blue skies and wind and birds had not been only a dream.”

C.S Lewis, The Silver Chair

“Thank you for a lovely weekend.
They tell me it rained.”

Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind

Anxiety:

“To some people, I may seem calm. But if you could peer beneath the surface, you would see that I’m like a duck-paddling, paddling, paddling.”

Scott Stossel, My Age of Anxiety

“When I don’t have something to worry about, I worry. Nothing comes so naturally to a human being as anxiety and worry.”

Brian Richardson

Mania:

“Mad Hatter: “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?”
“Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again.
“No, I give it up,” Alice replied: “What’s the answer?”
“I haven’t the slightest idea,” said the Hatter.”

Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace”

Mikhail Lermentov

“I am stark sane, but my mind is erratically crazy.”

Suman Pokhrel

Hope:

“Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.”

Barbara Kingsolver