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

I know that without treatment I would not have never been able to harness my creativity in such a successful way.

I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks

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.

My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.

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

We call my son's role in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy Sean's little independent movie.