Books Quotes by Kay Redfield Jamison

8 Books quotes by Kay Redfield Jamison

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Jamison’s scholarly tone turns to books in these eight short reflections. They provide a quick glimpse of her balanced appreciation for reading’s impact on mind and mood.

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“My thinking, far from being clearer than a crystal, was tortuous. I would read the same passage over and over again only…

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“Reading, which had been at the heart of my intellectual and emotional existence, was suddenly beyond my grasp. I was used to…

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An intense temperament has convinced me to teach not only from books but from what I have learned from experience. So I…

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“When I am high I couldn’t worry about money if I tried. So I don’t. The money will come from somewhere; I…

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“He was not, it was clear, going to gaze meaningfully into my eyes over long dinners and fine wines, nor discuss literature…

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I think that when you're depressed, you can't concentrate long enough and well enough to read for the most part; some people…

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“When I am high I couldn’t worry about money if I tried. So I don’t. The money will come from somewhere; I…

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“When I first thought about writing this book, I conceived of it as a book about moods, and an illness of moods,…

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When people are suicidal, their thinking is paralyzed, their options appear spare or nonexistent, their mood is despairing, and hopelessness permeates their entire mental…

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I think that for thousands of years people have made the observation that there are certain kinds of extreme depressive states that seem to…

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Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving the lives…

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Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one plays them,…

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

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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…

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An ardent temperament makes one very vulnerable to dreamkillers.

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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We expect well-informed treatment for cancer or heart disease; it matters no less for depression.

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Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to…

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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…

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