“...even though [my psychiatrist] understood mor than anyone how much I felt I was losing--in energy, vivacity, and originality--by taking medication, he… — 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
the intensity, glory, and absolute assuredness if my mind's flight made it very difficult for me to believe once i was better,… — 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
“I avoided situations that might otherwise trip or jangle my hypersensitive wiring, and I learned to pretend I was paying attention or… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
There is always a part of my mind that is preparing for the worst, and another part of my mind that believes… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I compare myself with my former self, not with others. Not only that, I tend to compare my current self with the… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“He thought of women in terms of breasts, not minds, and it always seemed to irritate him that most women had both.” — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
The quickness and flexibility of a well mind, a belief or hope that things will eventually sort themselves out-these are the resources… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Everything previously moving with the grain is now against - you are irritable, angry, frightened, uncontrollable, and enmeshed totally in the blackest… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds.… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“Time will pass; these mood will pass; and I will, eventually, be myself again. But then, at some unknown time, the electrifying… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“My mind was flying high that day, courtesy of whatever witches' brew of neurotransmitters God had programmed into my genes...” — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds.… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by impulse and irrationality, are influenced as well by personal aesthetics and private meanings. — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
The awareness of the damage done by severe mental illness—to the individual himself and to others—and fears that it may return again… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
'An Unquiet Mind' wasn't hard to write in terms of the actual writing of it. — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Curiosity, wonder, and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers...Restlessness and discontent are vital things... Intense experience and suffering… — 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
Tumultuouness,if coupled to discipline and cool mind,is not such a bad sort of thing.That unless one wants to live a stunningly boring… — 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
“Slowly the darkness began to weave its way into my mind, and before long I was hopelessly out of control. I could… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
There is always a part of my mind that is preparing for the worst, and another part of my mind that believes… — 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
