Wells Quotes by Kay Redfield Jamison

8 Wells quotes by Kay Redfield Jamison

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Kay Redfield Jamison’s eight concise notes on wells blend psychological insight with everyday observation, giving a measured, reflective take on this common feature.

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I remember sitting in his office a hundred times during those grim months and each time thinking, What on earth can he…

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I think psychotherapy saves lives and is hugely meaningful and I think that one of the unfortunate aspects of prescription drugs working…

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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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The quickness and flexibility of a well mind, a belief or hope that things will eventually sort themselves out-these are the resources…

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Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by impulse and irrationality, are influenced as well by personal aesthetics and private meanings.

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I think you have waves of awareness and one of the things that I found with grief was actually - I was…

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Confidentiality is an ancient and well-warranted social value.

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I think that when you're depressed, you can't concentrate long enough and well enough to read for the most part; some people…

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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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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…

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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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