Mania can be as terrifying as it gets. It is certainly as insane as one gets and so it's frightening when it… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Mania is as bad as it gets. If not treated, it will become worse, more frequent, and harder to treat. — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When I am high I couldn't worry about money of I tried. So I don't. The money will come from from somewhere;… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills; likewise, no amount of psychotherapy alone can… — 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“When I am high I couldn’t worry about money if I tried. So I don’t. The money will come from somewhere; I… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“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
“When I am high I couldn’t worry about money if I tried. So I don’t. The money will come from somewhere; I… — 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
“...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
![“...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 seduced into losing sight of the overall perspective of how costly, damaging, and life threatening my illness was. He was at ease with…” quote by Kay Redfield Jamison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/57f/kay-redfield-jamison-1826_life_even-though-my-psychiatrist-understood-m_3399.jpg)
