Feels Quotes by Kay Redfield Jamison

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Kay Redfield Jamison blends science with personal experience, and these eight short quotes distill her nuanced understanding of emotion, offering a concise, informed perspective.

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I remember sitting in his office a hundred times during those grim months and each time thinking, What on earth can he…

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In depression, your capacity to feel just flattens and disappears and what you feel is pain and a kind of pain that…

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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…

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Mood disorders are terribly painful illnesses, and they are isolating illnesses. And they make people feel terrible about themselves when, in fact,…

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Others would say to me, 'It is only temporary, it will pass, you will get over it,' but of course they had…

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...Time does not heal, It makes a half-stitched scar That can be broken and again you feel Grief as total as in…

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

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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…

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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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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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