01c. 1969 ADI mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself. To present the CliffNotes of the emotional me, as opposed to the twelve-column read.I used to refer to my drug use as putting the monster in the box. I wanted to be less, so I took more - simple as that. Anyway, I eventually decided that the reason Dr. Stone had told me I was hypomanic was that he wanted to put me on medication instead of actually treating me. So I did the only rational thing I could do in the face of such as insult - I stopped talking to Stone, flew back to New York, and married Paul Simon a week later.Carrie Fisher / quote ↗
02c. 1969 ADThere are a couple of reasons why I take comfort in being able to put all this in my own vernacular and present it to you. For one thing, because then I'm not completely alone with it. And for another, it gives me a sense of being in control of the craziness. Now this is a delusion, but it's MY delusion and I'm sticking with it. It's sort of like: I have problems but problems don't have me.Carrie Fisher / quote ↗
03c. 1969 ADStatistics say that a range of mental disorders affects more than one in four Americans in any given year. That means millions of Americans are totally batshit.but having perused the various tests available that they use to determine whether you're manic depressive. OCD, schizo-affective, schizophrenic, or whatever, I'm surprised the number is that low. So I have gone through a bunch of the available tests, and I've taken questions from each of them, and assembled my own psychological evaluation screening which I thought I'd share with you.So, here are some of the things that they ask to determine if you're mentally disordered1. In the last week, have you been feeling irritable?2. In the last week, have you gained a little weight?3. In the last week, have you felt like not talking to people?4. Do you no longer get as much pleasure doing certain things as you used to?5. In the last week, have you felt fatigued?6. Do you think about sex a lot?If you don't say yes to any of these questions either you're lying, or you don't speak English, or you're illiterate, in which case, I have the distinct impression that I may have lost you a few chapters ago.Carrie Fisher / quote ↗
04c. 1969 ADYou know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well, I took masses of opiates religiously.Carrie Fisher / quote ↗
05c. 1969 ADYou know how most illnesses have symptoms you can recognize? Like fever, upset stomach, chills, whatever. Well, with manic depression, it's sexual promiscuity, excessive spending, and substance abuse - and that just sounds like a fantastic weekend in Vegas to me!Carrie Fisher / quote ↗
06c. 1969 ADIt's a man's world and show business is a man's meal, with women generously sprinkled through it like overqualified spice.Carrie Fisher / quote ↗
07c. 1969 ADResentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.Carrie Fisher / quote ↗
08c. 1969 ADThe crew was mostly men. That's how it was and that's pretty much how it still is. It's a man's world & show business is a man's meal with women generously sprinkled through it like over-qualified spice.Carrie Fisher / quote ↗
09c. 1969 ADRevenge may not be a particularly high consciousness-oriented activity.Carrie Fisher / quote ↗
10c. 1969 ADThere is no point at which you can say "Well I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap."Carrie Fisher / quote ↗
11c. 1969 ADThere's a line I have that our family was designed more for public than for private. But there are definitely some things that are only mine. I am someone who dreams at night, and you don't know what I'm dreaming.Carrie Fisher / quote ↗
13c. 1969 ADWhat I wrote all the time when I was a kid - I don't want to call it 'poetry,' because it wasn't poetry. I was not that kind of a writer. I was a rhymer. I was a fan of Dorothy Parker's, so maybe I wrote poetry to that extent, but my main focus was the humor of it, and word construction, and the slant. Your words, it's a very powerful experience.Carrie Fisher / quote ↗
14c. 1969 ADGoing to AA helped me to see that there were other people who had problems that had found a way to talk about them and find relief and humor through that.Carrie Fisher / quote ↗
15c. 1969 ADI don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.Carrie Fisher / quote ↗
16c. 1969 ADI was born on October 21, 1956 in Burbank, California. My father, Eddie Fisher, was a famous singer. My mother, Debbie Reynolds, was a movie star. Her best-known role was in 'Singin' In The Rain.'Carrie Fisher / quote ↗
17c. 1969 ADYou knew how humiliating that is as an experience for celebrities to be less of a celebrity. There's no class to adjust to being less famous, and you don't think you have to worry about it. But you do.Carrie Fisher / quote ↗
19c. 1969 ADI really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing.Carrie Fisher / quote ↗
20c. 1969 ADI have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.Carrie Fisher / quote ↗
22c. 1969 ADShe has been more than a mother than me - not much, but definitely more... She's been an unsolicited stylist, interior decorator and marriage counselor... Admittedly, I found it difficult to share my mother with her adoring fans, who treated her like she was part of their family.Carrie Fisher / quote ↗
23c. 1969 ADI trust myself. I trust my instincts. I know what I'm gonna do, what I can do, what I can't do. I've been through a lot, and I could go through more, but I hope I don't have to. But if I did, I'd be able to do it. I'm not going to enjoy dying, but there's not much prep for that.Carrie Fisher / quote ↗
24c. 1969 ADIf my life wasn't funny, it would just be true, and that's unacceptable.Carrie Fisher / quote ↗
