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Andy Behrman

American Writer

Born: 1962

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My eating habits are the only behaviour of mine that are still manic. I can't walk by a restaurant, a bakery, an ice-cream store or a candy store without making a purchase; the amount of calories I take in today are at least five times as many as I took before starting on all of this medication. Andy Behrman

Today Walk Before Took Mine Purchase Restaurant Eating Only Habits Take Bakery Without Calories Making Least Still Five Times Behaviour Candy Candy Store Store Manic Many Amount Medication Starting

My illness is one often characterized by dramatic overspending - in my case through frenzied shopping sprees, credit card abuse, excessive hoarding of unnecessary material goods and bizarre generosity with family, friends and even strangers. Andy Behrman

Family Shopping Strangers Dramatic Unnecessary Characterized Bizarre Case Through Excessive Generosity Abuse Goods Material Friends Hoarding Often Illness Even Credit Card Credit Card

I am a rapid-cycling manic-depressive, bi-polar one disorder, which means I can have thirty or forty episodes a year, and I used to have thirty to forty episodes a year. Andy Behrman

Year Thirty Am Which Episodes Means Disorder Used Forty

The little depression I experienced during my manic-depression was not like depression as anyone else had ever described it. It was very violent and angry, and I was full of rage. I wasn't lying in bed. Andy Behrman

Depression Angry Rage Lying Else Had Like Bed Very Experienced Anyone Anyone Else Little Full Ever Violent

I think, when it comes to psychiatry, that a lot of people are overmedicated. I think when it comes to ECT a lot of people go through too much. I think there's a lot of guesswork in psychiatry. Andy Behrman

People Too Much Think Too Through Go Lot Psychiatry Much

Manic depression is a type of depression, technically, and it's the opposite of uni-polar. Manic depression is also called bi-polar disorder. Some people don't like to call it that because they think it makes it sound too nice, when the reality is if you have manic-depression you have manic-depression. Andy Behrman

Like most manic depressives, some of my symptoms included racing thoughts that I simply had to act upon - flying from New York to Paris and taking the train to Berlin; flying to Argentina in the middle of the night; spending tens of thousands of dollars on unnecessary garments, dinners and gifts. Andy Behrman

Thoughts Symptoms Spending Flying Berlin Unnecessary Gifts Thousands Dinners Some Paris Argentina Had Simply Tens Tens Of Thousands Taking New Like Most Dollars Train York New York Middle Manic Racing Act Included Garments Night

After graduation in June of 1984, I moved to Manhattan. My first stop was a psychiatrist, who in less than our first fifty-minute session again diagnosed me with depression. Andy Behrman

Depression Me First Our Diagnosed June Than Stop Moved Graduation Psychiatrist Manhattan After Again Less Who Session

In total, I was diagnosed with depression by eight psychotherapists and psychiatrists over a period of thirteen years. Diagnosed wrong. Absolutely wrong. My accurate diagnosis was manic depression, or what we call bipolar disorder today. Andy Behrman

Today Depression Bipolar Total Absolutely Wrong Over Period Call Diagnosed Diagnosis Years Accurate Psychiatrists Eight Manic Disorder Thirteen

Friends and family were convinced I was functioning just fine because I was efficient, productive and successful - who wouldn't be working twenty hour days? I had everybody fooled with my illness. Andy Behrman

In my most psychotic stages, I imagine myself chewing on sidewalks and bulging and swallowing sunlight and clouds. Andy Behrman

Myself Clouds Sunlight Most Chewing Stages Swallowing Psychotic Imagine

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