I think people don't understand how intimately tied suicide is to mental illness, particularly to depressive illness and bipolar illness. — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Mood disorders are terribly painful illnesses, and they are isolating illnesses. And they make people feel terrible about themselves when, in fact,… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief, and they really need to be treated for… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
There are relatively few things that kill people that are young other than car accidents and suicide. — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Most people don't have the advantage of being able to evaluate their doctor in advance. — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were. — 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
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
People talk about grief as if it's kind of an unremittingly awful thing, and it is. It is painful, but it's a… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
People talk about grief as if it's kind of an unremittingly awful thing, and it is. It is painful, but it's a… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I think that when you're depressed, you can't concentrate long enough and well enough to read for the most part; some people… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
When public figures remain silent about depression, there is a cost to the rest of society. Silence contributes to the misperception that… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
People are more impulsive and they get slightly less impulsive as they get older and the impulsiveness interacting with the depression is… — 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… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
If people can talk about having breast cancer, why can't people who have mental illness talk about mental illness? Until we're able… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I don't think grief of grief in a medical way at all. I think that I and many of my colleagues, are… — 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… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I think that one of the many advantages of death accruing over a long period of time is that you do have… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I was late to understand that chaos and intensity are no subsitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them. — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I think psychotherapy saves lives and is hugely meaningful and I think that one of the unfortunate aspects of prescription drugs working… — 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… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
People respond differently to people who are grieving. They reach out. But depression is so very isolating. It's hard to explain to… — 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
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