What about Katy Perry's Hot and Cold song. Definately reminds me of my bipolar ( by the way I'm a rapid cycler)

I think The Doors do it brilliantly...
The Doors- People Are Strange (maybe a smidge of psychosis) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awi14wDTxNw

Or

for true full blown mania -
The Doors - Break on Through
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dLAv0NklTg

Or

Hypomania:

Nancy Sinatra - These Boots Are Made For Walking:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRkovnss7sg

Then there are these which you could classify for whatever you want:
Patsy Cline-Crazy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzq5X-p2C0Y

Nancy Sinatra - Bang Bang:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5Xl0Qry-hA

Skeeter Davis - The End Of The World:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l-GpISGBFY

I'm definitely down with The Doors, Kate Perry, Matchbox 20 'Unwell' is another fave.

Whenever I think of BP it reminds me of the really crap taste in music people have here. It warms my heart

Crap?! Oh you did not go there...

Apart from the many, many obvious ( & some superb) contenders:

I like many versions of:

Stormy Weather:

Don't know why, there's no sun up in the sky
Stormy weather, since my man and I ain't together
Keeps raining all the time

Life is bare, gloom and misery everywhere
Stormy weather, just can't get my poor old self together
I'm weary all the time, the time, so weary all of the time

When he went away, the blues walked in and met me
If he stays away, old rocking chair will get me
All I do is pray, the lord above will let me
walk in the sun once more

Can't go on, everything I had is gone
Stormy weather, since my man and I ain't together
Keeps raining all the time
Keeps raining all of the time

I walk around heavy-hearted and sad
Night comes around and I'm still feeling bad
Rain pourin' down, blinding every hope I had
This pitter andd n patter and beating, spattering driving me mad
Love, love, love, love, the misery will be the end of me

When he went away, the blues walked in and met me
If he stays away, old rocking chair will get me
All I do is pray, the lord above will let me
Walk in the sun once more

Can't go on, everything I had is gone
Stormy weather, since my man and I ain't together
Keeps raining all the time, the time
Keeps raining all the time

Here ya go Lou:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxrQ-O4-J70

Yes, Billie just divine, as always..Etta james cover too..lots of them :) Thanks Amal X

Many of Daniel Johnston's tracks kinda slay me, heartbreaking, beautiful..like this one (when manic/psychotic Daniel believed for a long time that he was Casper fyi)

Casper The Friendly Ghost :
He was smiling through his own personal hell
Dropped his last dime in a wishing well
But he was hoping to close and then he fell
Now he's Casper the Friendly Ghost

He was always polite to the people who'd tell him
That he was nothing but a lazy bum, but
Goodbye to them he had to go
Now he's Casper the Friendly Ghost

Nobody treated him nice while he was alive
You can't buy no respect like the librarian said, but
Everybody respects the dead, they
Love a friendly ghost

And now they say we'll never forget what he learned
As we were mean to him but he never burned
Just singing, "love lives forever!"
Thank you, Casper the Friendly Ghost
Thank you, Casper the Friendly Ghost

"he was smiling through his own personal hell/ dropped his last dime down a wishing well" ....*sniffle*

Atomic Soda..lithium being found in soda springs made this particularly poignent when I was starting to take Lithium and my marriage was falling apart (interupted only by the death of my wife)

You asked me not to speak
Then kissed me on the cheek
You said that I was wrong
You said that I was weak
I tried to think awhile
You said I was too long
And when I tried to smile
You sung this pretty song

Drink this baby, it's atomic soda
It'll blow your mind back to how it was

Standing in the snow, icicles on your nose
I felt what once was through your frozen clothes
Standing on the shore, looking at the lake
My arm around you won't stop you shake

In the Wintertime when the leaves are gone
I look at you & wonder what's wrong
You were so strong, I was so weak
Now I can't even get you to speak

this: not the most sophisticated lyrics but expresses such a truth: about his institutionalisation (Daniel Johnston's) Again, kinda devastating.

Monkey in a Zoo

I'm chained to the wall.
I have nothin' at all.
And my eyes look into the sunset
Thinkin' of better things to do,
Like a monkey in a zoo.

The days go so slow.
I don't have no friends.
Except all these people
Who want me to do tricks for them,
Like a monkey in a zoo.

And it could happen to you.
You could be in my place.
No it wasn't always like this,
But I never saw it comin'.

I'm so alone,
But this is my home.
And the bars that surround me
Keep me from knowin' any better,
Like a monkey in a zoo.

Throw me a peanut.
Laugh and make jokes.
But I've had enough peanuts
And I'm ready to choke,
Like a monkey in a zoo

You come to look at me.
You seem so amused.
But things would look different
If you were in my shoes.

I know its my fault,
But I want out.
And when I cry out
Nobody seems to understand,
Like a monkey in a zoo

You say I'm cute.
You don't know how much that hurts.
You don't know how it feels
To live in your own dirt,
Like a monkey in a zoo

And it could happen to you.
You could be in my place.
Don't let yourself slip.
Don't keep egg on your face.

I used to be happy.
I cant remember those days.
But I sold my freedom
For free room and board,
Like a monkey in a zoo.

I love Daniel Johnston.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBkgAG3F9sA

He sings it so upbeat in a way:
Like A Monkey In A Zoo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuAKxjHOUu0

I think of this sometimes:

Natalie Merchant - Ophelia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w0HArmTuVs