Patty Duke Quotes
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I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What's missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became destructive, and the super lows, which are immediately destructive.
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I can't even remember how many times I tried to kill myself.
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I'm surviving a life-threatening illness. Many do not, such as those without celebrity and fortune who have to depend on the public healthcare system.
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It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself.
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The mania started with insomnia and not eating and being driven, driven to find an apartment, driven to see everybody, driven to do New York, driven to never shut up.
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It's not a giant thrill to hear someone give you the label 'manic-depressive,' but to me I was so relieved. What I was suffering from had a name and could be treated.
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I've survived. I've beaten my own bad system, and on some days, on most days, that feels like a miracle.
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I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.
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Fairness is really important to me.
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My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.
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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.
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Bipolar indicates that you're not - you don't just experience depression, but the mood swing goes up, and it can go very up.
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The panic attacks - I still have them. They started when I was around 8. They always have to do with my death.
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The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure.
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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.
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Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them.
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I'm spoiled rotten, as my children would tell you.
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I joke around a lot about the manic times because they're funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature.
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Sometimes it is the simplest, seemingly most inane, most practical stuff that matters the most to someone.
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Due to my sometimes erratic behavior, my children tried very hard to avoid me and not do anything to set me off.
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No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.
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Reality is hard. It is no walk in the park, this thing called Life.
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I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.
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Without a sense of humor, I would have been gone a long time ago.