“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 Copy Share Image
I am one of millions who have been treated for depression and gotten well; I was lucky enough to have a psychiatrist… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Never once, during any of my bouts of depression, had I been inclined or able to pick up a telephone and ask… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
There are scientists all around the world looking for the genes responsible for bipolar illness and major depression. — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Several politicians and wives of politicians have been public about their experiences with depression or bipolar illness, including Lawton Chiles, Patrick Kennedy,… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Psychologists, for reasons of clinical necessity or vagaries of temperament, have chosen to dissect and catalog the morbid emotions - depression, anger,… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The horror of profound depression, and the hopelessness that usually accompanies it, are hard to imagine for those who have not experienced… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
From a public health point of view, still the overwhelming problem is that people are not treated enough for depression; depression remains… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Others imply that they know what it is like to be depressed because they have gone through a divorce, lost a job,… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I think wanting to write is a fundamental sign of disease and discomfort. I don't think people who are comfortable want to… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous.… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
It was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse. It was… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“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 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 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 of grief… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
An ardent temperament makes one very vulnerable to dreamkillers. — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
