manic-depressive

• “The disease that encompassed all these different appearances was now to be called manic-depressive insanity.”

  Simon & Schuster: MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION

• “An ironic exception to these nineteenth-century writers who were emphasizing the mysterious, irrational, and overwhelming forces that gave rise to genius was the essayist Charles Lamb; confined at one time to a private asylum for what now would almost certainly be called manic-depressive illness, he was also the close companion to a sister intermittently insane with manic-depressive psychosis.”

  Simon & Schuster: Touched with Fire

• “They found that less than half of those with bipolar disorder -- also known as manic-depressive illness -- received mental health treatment during their lifetimes.”

  FOXNews.com

• “If Leibovich had mostly settled on a picture of Beck as a manic-depressive with suicidal tendencies who doesn't know who he is from moment to moment, that would have been one thing.”

  The Huffington Post: Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: Glenn Beck, the Picture of Innocence

• “The static of the erratic fanatic romantic manic-depressive: upside down, impulsive, regressive.”

  Fictionaut: Anatomy of a Breakdown

• “My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as "an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.”

  The Huffington Post: Kitty Kelley: Frank Sinatra and Me

• “I've worked with him for more than two years and I've never seen evidence" that the Afghan president is manic-depressive or on drugs, Sedwill said.”

  The Washington Post: The White House's Afghanistan defeatism

• “But the assumption that every dollar not spent in a school year is a denial of education to students is foolish and its ultimate end is part of a manic-depressive approach to funding that ends up holding us hostage to the whims of the economy and dooms us to continual upheaval.”

  The Huffington Post: Larry Strauss: It's Cyclical, Stupid

• “How Dolphin and Star cope with the unpredictability of Marigold, their alcoholic, manic-depressive mother, is told entirely from the girls' perspective.”

  The Guardian: Recommended reads: ages 8–10

• “A-lister Clooney adopts a quieter, less showy pose as a troubled lawyer torn between his loyalty to firm honcho Sydney Pollack and his pal Wilkinson, who gives an astounding performance as an erratic, manic-depressive lawyer at the breaking point.”

  The Huffington Post: John Farr: She Who Dares: The Astonishing Work Of Tilda Swinton

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