--- title: "13 Way Quotes By Kay Redfield Jamison" description: "13 Way quotes by Kay Redfield Jamison. Plus more from Kay Redfield Jamison and more Way sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad6/kay-redfield-jamison-1826_cause_everyone-has-good-cause-for-suicide-or-a_759273.jpg" --- > [“Everyone has good cause for suicide, or at least it seems that way to those who search for it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-redfield-jamison/everyone-has-good-cause-for-suicide-or-at-least-it-seems-that-way-to/) [Kay Redfield Jamison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-redfield-jamison/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad6/kay-redfield-jamison-1826_cause_everyone-has-good-cause-for-suicide-or-a_759273.jpg) > [Lithium remains the gold standard, but many drugs now treat bipolar disorder. Medication is critical and should be combined with psychotherapy. Compliance…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-redfield-jamison/lithium-remains-the-gold-standard-but-many-drugs-now-treat-bipolar/) [Kay Redfield Jamison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-redfield-jamison/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/778/kay-redfield-jamison-1826_believe_lithium-remains-the-gold-standard-but-ma_1238643.jpg) > [People talk about grief as if it's kind of an unremittingly awful thing, and it is. It is painful, but it's a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-redfield-jamison/people-talk-about-grief-as-if-it-s-kind-of-an-unremittingly-awful-2/) [Kay Redfield Jamison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-redfield-jamison/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8aa/kay-redfield-jamison-1826_about_people-talk-about-grief-as-if-it-s-kind_1619421.jpg) > [We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-redfield-jamison/we-all-build-internal-sea-walls-to-keep-at-bay-the-sadnesses-of-life-2/) [Kay Redfield Jamison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-redfield-jamison/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/09c/kay-redfield-jamison-1826_alcohol_we-all-build-internal-sea-walls-to-keep_1810493.jpg) > [Each way to suicide is its own: intensely private, unknowable, and terrible. Suicide will have seemed to its perpetrator the last and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-redfield-jamison/each-way-to-suicide-is-its-own-intensely-private-unknowable-and/) [Kay Redfield Jamison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-redfield-jamison/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/942/kay-redfield-jamison-1826_finals_each-way-to-suicide-is-its-own-intensely_283193.jpg) > [Curiosity, wonder, and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers...Restlessness and discontent are vital things... Intense experience and suffering…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-redfield-jamison/curiosity-wonder-and-passion-are-defining-qualities-of-imaginative/) [Kay Redfield Jamison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-redfield-jamison/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f9c/kay-redfield-jamison-1826_curiosity_curiosity-wonder-and-passion-are-definin_2379615.jpg) > [The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful. In some strange way, I have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-redfield-jamison/the-chinese-believe-that-before-you-can-conquer-a-beast-you-first-2/) [Kay Redfield Jamison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-redfield-jamison/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d37/kay-redfield-jamison-1826_beast_the-chinese-believe-that-before-you-can_1917634.jpg) > [I don't think grief of grief in a medical way at all. I think that I and many of my colleagues, are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-redfield-jamison/i-don-t-think-grief-of-grief-in-a-medical-way-at-all-i-think-that-i/) [Kay Redfield Jamison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-redfield-jamison/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3fd/kay-redfield-jamison-1826_colleagues_i-don-t-think-grief-of-grief-in-a-medica_335694.jpg) > [When I'm talking about depression, I'm talking about the more severe forms of depression, and I think that conceptualising as a form…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-redfield-jamison/when-i-m-talking-about-depression-i-m-talking-about-the-more-severe/) [Kay Redfield Jamison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-redfield-jamison/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/142/kay-redfield-jamison-1826_about_when-i-m-talking-about-depression-i-m-ta_127119.jpg) > [Suicide is a particularly awful way to die: the mental suffering leading up to it is usually prolonged, intense and unpalliated. There…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-redfield-jamison/suicide-is-a-particularly-awful-way-to-die-the-mental-suffering/) [Kay Redfield Jamison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-redfield-jamison/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/806/kay-redfield-jamison-1826_aftermath_suicide-is-a-particularly-awful-way-to-d_816555.jpg) > [We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-redfield-jamison/we-all-build-internal-sea-walls-to-keep-at-bay-the-sadnesses-of-life/) [Kay Redfield Jamison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-redfield-jamison/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ef/kay-redfield-jamison-1826_alcohol_we-all-build-internal-sea-walls-to-keep_1571038.jpg) > [“The rites of passage in the academic world are arcane and, in their own way, highly romantic, and the tensions and unplesantries…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-redfield-jamison/the-rites-of-passage-in-the-academic-world-are-arcane-and-in-their/) [Kay Redfield Jamison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-redfield-jamison/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/74e/kay-redfield-jamison-1826_academic_the-rites-of-passage-in-the-academic-wor_1031852.jpg) > [It was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse. It was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-redfield-jamison/it-was-as-if-my-father-had-given-me-by-way-of-temperament-an/) [Kay Redfield Jamison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-redfield-jamison/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f5f/kay-redfield-jamison-1826_and-love_it-was-as-if-my-father-had-given-me-by-w_3171271.jpg) ## Other authors on Way ## More by Kay Redfield Jamison > [ “...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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-redfield-jamison/even-though-my-psychiatrist-understood-mor-than-anyone-how-much-i/) [Kay Redfield Jamison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-redfield-jamison/) > [When people are suicidal, their thinking is paralyzed, their options appear spare or nonexistent, their mood is despairing, and hopelessness permeates their entire mental…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-redfield-jamison/when-people-are-suicidal-their-thinking-is-paralyzed-their-options/) [Kay Redfield Jamison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-redfield-jamison/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-redfield-jamison/it-s-more-common-than-not-that-bipolar-illness-will-start-in-the/) [Kay Redfield Jamison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-redfield-jamison/) > [I think that for thousands of years people have made the observation that there are certain kinds of extreme depressive states that seem to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-redfield-jamison/i-think-that-for-thousands-of-years-people-have-made-the-observation/) [Kay Redfield Jamison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-redfield-jamison/) > [Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving the lives…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-redfield-jamison/every-seventeen-minutes-in-america-someone-commits-suicide-mostly-i/) [Kay Redfield Jamison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-redfield-jamison/) > [Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one plays them,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-redfield-jamison/mother-who-has-an-absolute-belief-that-it-is-not-the-cards-that-one/) [Kay Redfield Jamison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-redfield-jamison/) > [“I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice between seeing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-redfield-jamison/i-decided-early-in-graduate-school-that-i-needed-to-do-something/) [Kay Redfield Jamison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-redfield-jamison/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-redfield-jamison/when-i-m-talking-about-depression-i-m-talking-about-the-more-severe/) [Kay Redfield Jamison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-redfield-jamison/) > [An ardent temperament makes one very vulnerable to dreamkillers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-redfield-jamison/an-ardent-temperament-makes-one-very-vulnerable-to-dreamkillers/) [Kay Redfield Jamison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-redfield-jamison/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-redfield-jamison/the-intensity-glory-and-absolute-assuredness-if-my-mind-s-flight-made/) [Kay Redfield Jamison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-redfield-jamison/) > [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-redfield-jamison/i-wish-i-could-explain-it-so-someone-could-understand-it-i-m-afraid/) [Kay Redfield Jamison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-redfield-jamison/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-redfield-jamison/moods-are-such-an-essential-part-of-the-substance-of-life-of-one-s/) [Kay Redfield Jamison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-redfield-jamison/) > [We expect well-informed treatment for cancer or heart disease; it matters no less for depression.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-redfield-jamison/we-expect-well-informed-treatment-for-cancer-or-heart-disease-it/) [Kay Redfield Jamison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-redfield-jamison/) > [Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-redfield-jamison/manic-depression-distorts-moods-and-thoughts-incites-dreadful/) [Kay Redfield Jamison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-redfield-jamison/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-redfield-jamison/people-talk-about-grief-as-if-it-s-kind-of-an-unremittingly-awful/) [Kay Redfield Jamison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-redfield-jamison/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/way/kay-redfield-jamison/#itemlist", "name": "13 Way Quotes By Kay Redfield Jamison", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Everyone has good cause for suicide, or at least it seems that way to those who search for it.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Kay Redfield Jamison" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-redfield-jamison/everyone-has-good-cause-for-suicide-or-at-least-it-seems-that-way-to/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad6/kay-redfield-jamison-1826_cause_everyone-has-good-cause-for-suicide-or-a_759273.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad6/kay-redfield-jamison-1826_cause_everyone-has-good-cause-for-suicide-or-a_759273.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad6/kay-redfield-jamison-1826_cause_everyone-has-good-cause-for-suicide-or-a_759273.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Everyone has good cause for suicide, or at least it seems that way to those who search for it.” — Kay Redfield Jamison", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Lithium remains the gold standard, but many drugs now treat bipolar disorder. 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