“I understood very little of what was going on, and I felt as though only dying would release me from the overwhelming… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
People talk about grief as if it's kind of an unremittingly awful thing, and it is. It is painful, but it's a… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
...Time does not heal, It makes a half-stitched scar That can be broken and again you feel Grief as total as in… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief, and they really need to be treated for… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
People talk about grief as if it's kind of an unremittingly awful thing, and it is. It is painful, but it's a… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“How odd to smile during Richard's funeral. He was dead and I was smiling to myself. Grief does that. Laughter lies close… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“It has been said that grief is a kind of madness. I disagree. There is a sanity to grief, in its just… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I think that when you're depressed, you can't concentrate long enough and well enough to read for the most part; some people… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I think you have waves of awareness and one of the things that I found with grief was actually - I was… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
People respond differently to people who are grieving. They reach out. But depression is so very isolating. It's hard to explain to… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
When I'm talking about depression, I'm talking about the more severe forms of depression, and I think that conceptualising as a form… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I don't think grief of grief in a medical way at all. I think that I and many of my colleagues, are… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“Grief said C.S. Lewis is like "a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape." This is so. The… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“...even though [my psychiatrist] understood mor than anyone how much I felt I was losing--in energy, vivacity, and originality--by taking medication, he never was… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share
When people are suicidal, their thinking is paralyzed, their options appear spare or nonexistent, their mood is despairing, and hopelessness permeates their entire mental… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share
It's more common than not that bipolar illness will start in the teens. One of the reasons I spend a lot of time on… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share
I think that for thousands of years people have made the observation that there are certain kinds of extreme depressive states that seem to… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share
Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving the lives… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share
Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one plays them,… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share
“I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice between seeing… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share
When I'm talking about depression, I'm talking about the more severe forms of depression, and I think that conceptualising as a form of grief… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share
the intensity, glory, and absolute assuredness if my mind's flight made it very difficult for me to believe once i was better, that the… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share
I wish I could explain it so someone could understand it. I'm afraid it's something I can't put into words. There's just this heavy,… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share
Moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share
We expect well-informed treatment for cancer or heart disease; it matters no less for depression. — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share
Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share
People talk about grief as if it's kind of an unremittingly awful thing, and it is. It is painful, but it's a very, very… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share
