I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice between seeing a psychiatrist or buying a horse. Since almost everyone I knew was seeing a psychiatrist, and since I had an absolute belief that I should be able to handle my own problems, I naturally bought a horse.
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness (ed. Vintage, 2009) - ISBN: 9780307498489