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

If I have any message for others, it is to go for help early and not to be a resistant patient

I kind of like the position of being the fair-haired savior of my mother

Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.

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.

I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.

One of the things I've discovered in general about raising kids is that they really don't give a damn if you walked five miles to school.