I suffer from a disease known as Bi-Polar Disorder. Bi-Polar disorder is a chemical imbalance in the brain. Strictly a physical disease. Unfortunately, the symptoms are mental. More specifically I suffer from rapid cycling mood swings. Mostly I'm in mixed states. I also suffer from CFS “Chronic Fatigue Disorder”, PTSD “Post Tramatic Stress Disorder, and debilitating anxiety attacks.
Many noteworthy, famous personalites, who have contributed greatly to society in general, suffered from this terrible disease. I want to honor them, this is my way to honor the Great Artists who battle these disorders, yet have risen above it, even used it, to create works of art that have enriched the world today. It's also my way of saying to you ALL who suffer from chemical imbalances in your brain; you are NOT alone in this life long battle, you are NOT damaged goods, broken or doomed to be a “nothing”, or unable to do nothing special in this life. You ARE very special, and beautiful, with much to give to this world, and the people in it...!

I'm Marie Digen, a proud bearer of my burdens, because they've made me who I am today. And I LIKE who I am...!

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Freedom*s just another word,
for nothing left to lose.
~Janis Joplin~

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Inside the dream,
button sleep around your body like a glove.
Free now of space and time.
Free to dissolve in the streaming summer.
~Jim Morrison~

Urge to come to terms with the "Outside",
by absorbing, interiorizing it.
I won*t come out, you must come in to me.
Into my womb~garden, where I peek out.
Where I can construct a universe within the skull,
to rival the real.
~Jim Morrison~

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In homage to Great artists who either suffer from Bi-Polar, Uni-Polar, or Cyclothymia Disorders.

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Robin Williams, actor, comedian
Dick Clark, radio, T.V. personality
Kristy McNichol, actress
George Gordon, aka Lord Byron, poet
Ernest Hemingway, writer
Margo Kidder, actress
Socrates, philospher
Dylan Thomas
William Shakspeare, writer
Patty Duke, actress, writer
Leo Tolstoy, writer
Peter Tchaikovsky, composer
Virginia Woolf, poet
William Faulkner, writer
Plato, philosopher
Edgar Allen Poe, poet
Samuel Clemens
Jim Morrison, poet, singer, song writer
Abraham Lincoln
Charles Dickens, writer
Ludwig Van Beethoven, composer
Rod Steiger
Judy Garland, actress, singer
Marilyn Monroe, actress
Emily Dickinson, poet
T. S. Eliot, poet
Janis Joplin, singer, song writer
Victor Hugo
Aristotle, philosopher
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Billie Holliday, singer
Cole Porter
Clara Bow, actress
Mary Shelley, writer
Percy Bysshe Shelley, writer
Vincent Van Gogh, artist
Joyce Carol Oates, poet
Sylvia Plath, poet
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer
Hippocrates, philosoher
Franz Schubert, composer
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hugo Wolf, writer
Noel Coward
William Butler Yeats, poet
Charlotte Bronté, poet
Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet
Harrison Forđ, actor
Vivien Leigh, actress
Michelangelo, artist
Rosemary Clooney, actress, singer
Mickey Rooney, actor, dancer
Agatha Christie, mystery writer
Bette Miđler, singer, actress
James Taylor, singer
Winston Churchill
Jim Carey, actor, comedian
Carrie Fisher, actress, writer
Buzz Aldrin, astronaut 
Lionel Aldridge
Hans Christian Andersen, writer 
Ned Beatty, actor 
Arthur Benson, writer 
E F Benson, writer
William Blake, poet 
Ralph Blakelock, artist 
Napoleon Bonaparte, General
Tadeusz Borowski 
Art Buchwald, writer, humorist 
Tim Burton, artist, movie director 
Drew Carey, actor
Dick Cavett, writer, media personality 
C.E. Chaffin, writer, poet 
Agatha Christie, mystery writer 
John Clare, poet 
Garnet Coleman, legislator
Francis Ford Coppola, director 
Patricia Cornwell, mystery writer 
Richard Dadd 
John Daly, athlete
John Davidson, poet 
Edward Dayes, artist 
Ray Davies, musician 
Kitty Dukakis, former First Lady of Massachusetts 
Thomas Eagleton, lawyer, former U.S. Senator 
Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist 
Robert Evans, film producer 
Edward FitzGerald 
Robert Frost, poet
Larry Flynt, porno magazine publisher 
Connie Francis, actress, singer
Sigmund Freud
Cary Grant, actor 
Kaye Gibbons, writer 
Shecky Greene, comedian, actor 
Linda Hamilton, actress
Kristin Hersh, musician 
Jack London, author
Robert Lowell, poet 
Jay Marvin, radio personality, writer 
Kevin McDonald, comedian, actor 
Dimitri Mihalas, scientist 
Kate Millett, writer, artist 
Spike Milligan, comic actor, writer 
John Mulheren, financier
Robert Munsch, writer 
Ilie Nastase, athlete, politician 
Isaac Newton, scientist 
Margo Orum, writer 
Nicola Pagett, actress
J.C. Penney 
Jimmie Piersall, athlete, sports announcer 
Charley Pride, musician 
Mac Rebennack (Dr. John), musician 
Jeannie C. Riley, musician
Phil Graham, owner, Washington Post 
Graham Greene, writer 
Peter Gregg, team owner, manager, race car driver 
Abbie Hoffman, writer, political activist 
Lynn Rivers, U.S. Congress 
Francesco Scavullo, artist, photographer 
Lori Schiller, writer, educator 
Frances Sherwood, writer 
Scott Simmie, writer, journalist 
Alonzo Spellman, athlete
Muffin Spencer-Devlin, athlete
Gordon Sumner, aka Sting
St. Francis 
St. John 
St. Theresa 
Rod Steiger, film maker 
Robert Louis Stevenson 
J.M.W. Turner 
Mark Twain, author 
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, poet
Ted Turner, entrepreneur, media giant  
Jean-Claude Van Damme, athlete, actor 
Mark Vonnegut, doctor, writer 
Sol Wachtler, judge, writer 
Tom Waits, musician, composer 
Walt Whitman, poet 
Tennessee Williams, author 
Brian Wilson, aka Beach Boys composer, arranger 
Jonathan Winters, comedian, actor, writer, artist 
Luther Wright, athlete
Robert E. Lee, soldier 
Bill Liechtenstein, T.V. & radio producer 
Daniel Johnston, musician 
Samuel Johnson, poet 
Burgess Meredith, actor, director 
Kay Redfield Jamison, psychologist, writer 

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Manic depression is touching my soul,
I know what I want, but I, I just don*t know.
Manic depression is touching my soul.
Manic depression is a frustrating mess!
~Jimi Hendrix~

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Farewell!
If ever fondest prayer.
For other*s weal avail*d on high.
Mine will not all be lost in air.
But waft thy name beyond the sky.
~George Gordon, "Lord Byron"~

But what is hope?
Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence;
the least touch of truth rubs it off,
and then we see what a hollow-cheecked harlot
we have got hold of.
~George Gordon, "Lord Byron"~

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Is but a dim-remembered story
Of the old time entombed.
And travellers now within that valley,
Through the red-litten windows, see
Vast forms that move fantastically
To a điscorđant melody;
While, like a rapid ghastly river,
~Edgar Allen Poe~

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