Kay Redfield Jamison

“Like my father, I looked up rather more than I looked out.”

— Kay Redfield Jamison

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“Thank you for a lovely weekend. They tell me it rained.”

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“It never occurred to her to give up.”

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“the beast was best handled by turning it toward the sun.”

— Kay Redfield Jamison

Confidentiality is an ancient and well-warranted social value.

— Kay Redfield Jamison

An ardent temperament makes one very vulnerable to dreamkillers.

— Kay Redfield Jamison

Look to the living, love them, and hold on.

— Kay Redfield Jamison

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

I am a huge advocate of prescription drugs given wisely and for the right reasons and the right diagnosis and also psychotherapy.

— Kay Redfield Jamison

There are relatively few things that kill people that are young other than car accidents and suicide.

— Kay Redfield Jamison

Love, like life, is much stranger and far more complicated than one is brought up to believe.

— Kay Redfield Jamison

One of things so bad about depression and bipolar disorder is that if you don't have prior awareness, you don't have any…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

...Time does not heal, It makes a half-stitched scar That can be broken and again you feel Grief as total as in…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“Feeling normal for any extended period of time raises hopes that turn out, almost invariably, to be writ on water. I”

— Kay Redfield Jamison

I love animals, and I was always attracted to the idea of being a zoo veterinarian or a veterinarian with the circus.

— Kay Redfield Jamison

I look back over my shoulder and feel the presence of an intense young girl and then a volatile and disturbed young…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania,…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

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

Each way to suicide is its own: intensely private, unknowable, and terrible. Suicide will have seemed to its perpetrator the last and…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

The pursuit of knowledge is an intoxicant, a lure that scientists and explorers have known from ancient times; indeed, exhilaration in the…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

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

“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

“It took me far too long to realize that lost years and relationships cannot be recovered, that damage done to oneself and…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

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

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“Reading, which had been at the heart of my intellectual and emotional existence, was suddenly beyond my grasp. I was used to…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

It is tempting when looking at the life of anyone who has committed suicide to read into the decision to die a…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

There is no common standard for education about diagnosis. Distinguishing between bipolar depression and major depressive disorder, for example, can be difficult,…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

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

But then back on lithium and rotating on the planet at the same pace as everyone else, you find your credit is…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

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

“[The] persevering steadiness of my mother, her belief in seeing things through, and her great ability to love and learn, listen and…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

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

“When I first thought about writing this book, I conceived of it as a book about moods, and an illness of moods,…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“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

“When I am high I couldn’t worry about money if I tried. So I don’t. The money will come from somewhere; I…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“From the time I woke up in the morning until the time I went to bed at night, I was unbearably miserable…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“The horror of profound depression, and the hopelessness that usually accompanies it, are hard to imagine for those who have not experienced…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“I was not only very ill when I first called for an appointment, I was also terrified and deeply embarrassed. I had…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

Others imply that they know what it is like to be depressed because they have gone through a divorce, lost a job,…

— Kay Redfield Jamison