Suffering Quotes by Kay Redfield Jamison

9 Suffering quotes by Kay Redfield Jamison

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Kay Redfield Jamison offers nine short reflections on suffering, each grounded in her clinical, empathetic voice. The modest set gives a quick, yet thoughtful, look at how she connects mental health with lived experience.

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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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I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital…

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Anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's depression, bipolar illness or severe anxiety, whatever - actually has a…

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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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I think one thing is that anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's depression, bipolar illness or severe…

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Curiosity, wonder, and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers...Restlessness and discontent are vital things... Intense experience and suffering…

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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…

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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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Far too many doctors-many of them excellent physicians-commit suicide each year; one recent study concluded that, until quite recently, the United States…

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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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