Gaspar Noe

Sometimes you don't want to abandon a project to go to another move and come back, so maybe because I have a manic obsession I stick to my idea, and I'd rather wait than do something that is not my main passion.

Argentinian Director

Chris Gethard

Getting help for my issues was one of the hardest things I've ever done, because when I get dangerously sad or manic, those feelings seek to perpetuate themselves.

American Actor

Michaela Coel

My sets are not peaceful. It's a beautiful catastrophe. I am running around like a headless chicken. I don't sleep because I am writing. It's manic.

Erik Hassle

I was brought up with a lot of love in my family, and I've always been supported. My family has always protected me in a sort of manic way.

Swedish Musician

Robin Williams

Do I perform sometimes in a manic style? Yes. Am I manic all the time? No. Do I get sad? Oh yeah. Does it hit me hard? Oh yeah.

American Comedian

Gurinder Chadha

My pregnancy was great, but the last three weeks were manic because my blood pressure was going up and up.

English Director

Carrie Fisher

The world of manic depression is a world of bad judgment calls.

American Actress

Wyatt Cenac

I can't be manic without it feeling false to me.

Kirsten Dunst

I don't find I'm manic at all. I'm very chill.

Actress

Elizabeth Hurley

Manic implies extreme behaviours driven by emotions, not just high energy.

Emotional Charge

Use 'manic' to suggest a loss of control, almost like a frenzy.

Uncontrolled State

'Manic' can be positive or negative, often depending on if it's unwelcome or excessive energy.

Possible Negative

'Manic' in medical context refers to conditions like bipolar disorder with extreme mood swings.

Medical Condition

Manic used medically carries a serious tone, often requiring treatment or therapy.

Seriousness Sense

In a medical context, 'manic' doesn't mean happy, it can involve risky or harmful behavior.

Not Always Joyful

 to people who are bipolar and about to enter the manic phase. Such people tend to become overspenders, compulsive gamblers. They could do this, and you'd have no clue that's what they were picking up on. I gave this example to a bunch of computer scientists once and afterwards, one of them came up to me.

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 So the culture, the northern aboriginal culture, traditionally has been highly seasonal. In winter, there's a lot of sleeping going on; you enjoy your family life inside. And in summer, it's almost manic hunting and working activity very long hours,

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 was a beloved friend who I had known for many years, and who had had a psychotic episode in her freshman year of college, and then plummeted into a horrific depression. She had bipolar illness, or manic depression, as it was then known.

Depression, the secret...

 to the wealthy who want to protect their children, to just about everybody else. And in that process that's going to morph from being just for diseases, to being for lesser vulnerabilities, like risk of manic depression or something,

Gregory Stock: To...

 interspersed with long periods of depression. For someone seesawing between emotional states, it can feel impossible to find the balance necessary to lead a healthy life. Type 1's extreme highs are known as manic episodes,

What is bipolar...

 he had a kind of manic glint in his eyes, he was lost. And he was talking about invisible demons and smoke, and how someone was poisoning him in his sleep. And I was afraid,

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 Some of you are in the field, I can see. I can feel your noise. The first half of high school was the struggle of the manic episode, and the second half

Joshua Walters: On being...

 It's a much more noisy world. So one challenge we have is to remember, oversharing, that's not honesty. Our manic tweeting and texting can blind us

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 very very interesting prospects that is for certain well I think all of us need to take a deep breath and compose ourselves after that manic

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 in my mind, Bobby was going to be manic. But, surprisingly, he was very calm. And for two hours, he and I sat there and talked about life,