Kay Redfield Jamison

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

But, with time, one has encountered many of the monsters, and one is increasingly less terrified of those still to be met.

— Kay Redfield Jamison

I think people don't understand how intimately tied suicide is to mental illness, particularly to depressive illness and bipolar illness.

— Kay Redfield Jamison

The ancient dialogue between reason and the senses is almost always more interestingly and passionately resolved in favor of the senses.

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“Feeling normal for any extended period of time raises hopes that turn out, almost invariably, to be writ on water. I”

— Kay Redfield Jamison

The complexities of what we are given in life are vast and beyond comprehension.

— Kay Redfield Jamison

I love animals, and I was always attracted to the idea of being a zoo veterinarian or a veterinarian with the circus.

— Kay Redfield Jamison

'An Unquiet Mind' wasn't hard to write in terms of the actual writing of it.

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“It took me far too long to realize that lost years and relationships cannot be recovered, that damage done to oneself and…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

The pursuit of knowledge is an intoxicant, a lure that scientists and explorers have known from ancient times; indeed, exhilaration in the…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

The quickness and flexibility of a well mind, a belief or hope that things will eventually sort themselves out-these are the resources…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“Time will pass; these mood will pass; and I will, eventually, be myself again. But then, at some unknown time, the electrifying…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

Each way to suicide is its own: intensely private, unknowable, and terrible. Suicide will have seemed to its perpetrator the last and…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

People are more impulsive and they get slightly less impulsive as they get older and the impulsiveness interacting with the depression is…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania,…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

I look back over my shoulder and feel the presence of an intense young girl and then a volatile and disturbed young…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

Looking at suicide—the sheer numbers, the pain leading up to it, and the suffering left behind—is harrowing. For every moment of exuberance…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

When public figures remain silent about depression, there is a cost to the rest of society. Silence contributes to the misperception that…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

But then back on lithium and rotating on the planet at the same pace as everyone else, you find your credit is…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

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

“Composure and self-restraint were not only desirable characteristics in a woman, they were essental. As my mother put it later, it was…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful. In some strange way, I have…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“The rites of passage in the academic world are arcane and, in their own way, highly romantic, and the tensions and unplesantries…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“Normal people are not always boring. On the contrary. Volatility and passion, although often more romantic and enticing, are not intrinsically preferable…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“Her parents, she said, has put a pinball machine inside her head when she was five years old. The red balls told…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“Depression is awful beyond words or sounds or images...it bleeds relationships through suspicion, lack of confidence and self-respect, the inability to enjoy…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadness of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds.…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“In its severe forms, depression paralyzes all of the otherwise vital forces that make us human, leaving instead a bleak, despairing, desperate,…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“Depression, somehow, is much more in line with society's notions of what women are all about: passive, sensitive, hopeless, helpless, stricken, dependent,…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

One of the advantages of science is that one's work, ultimately, is either replicated or it is not.

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“You're frightened, and you're frightening, and you're 'not at all like yourself but you will be soon,' but you know you won't.”

— Kay Redfield Jamison

There are scientists all around the world looking for the genes responsible for bipolar illness and major depression.

— Kay Redfield Jamison

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

Most people don't have the advantage of being able to evaluate their doctor in advance.

— Kay Redfield Jamison

I say I'm an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write.

— Kay Redfield Jamison

If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

I am tired of hiding, tired of misspent and knotted energies, tired of the hypocrisy, and tired of acting as though I…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“I occasionally laugh and tell him that his imperturbability is worth three hundred milligrams of lithium a day to me, and it…

— Kay Redfield Jamison