Pain Quotes by Kay Redfield Jamison

10 Pain quotes by Kay Redfield Jamison

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Kay Redfield Jamison writes about pain with clinical clarity and personal honesty, each short quote feeling both scholarly and heartfelt. The limited set still offers a valuable glimpse into her nuanced understanding of suffering.

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No amount of love can cure madness or unblacken one's dark moods. Love can help, it can make the pain more tolerable,…

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I had been simply treating water, settling on surviving and avoiding pain rather than being actively involved in seeking out life.

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“Some part of me instinctively reached out, and in an odd way understood this pain, never imagining that I would someday look…

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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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There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness and terror involved in this kind of madness... It will never end, for…

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There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous.…

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

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Suicide is a particularly awful way to die: the mental suffering leading up to it is usually prolonged, intense and unpalliated. There…

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

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It is tempting when looking at the life of anyone who has committed suicide to read into the decision to die a…

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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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