Kay Redfield Jamison Quotes

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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 lost to a…
• I think wanting to write is a fundamental sign of disease and discomfort. I don't think people who are comfortable want to write ...
• But then back on lithium and rotating on the planet at the same pace as everyone else, you find your credit is decimated, your mortification…
• It was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse. It was a horse without…
• There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous. The ideas and…
• When I am high I couldn't worry about money of I tried. So I don't. The money will come from from somewhere; I am entitled;…
• Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving the lives of…
• I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that was strangely heartening.
• I have often asked myself whether, given the choice, I would choose to have manic-depressive illness. If lithium were not available to me, or didn't…
• Others would say to me, 'It is only temporary, it will pass, you will get over it,' but of course they had no idea how…
• Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live.
• Anyone who suggests that coming back from suicidal despair is a straightforward journey has never taken it.
• There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness and terror involved in this kind of madness... It will never end, for madness carves its…
• Suicide is a particularly awful way to die: the mental suffering leading up to it is usually prolonged, intense and unpalliated. There is no morphine…
• Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting
• Curiosity, wonder, and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers...Restlessness and discontent are vital things... Intense experience and suffering instruct us in…
• Exuberance is a gift of grace that allows us to move on, to seek, to love again.
• Suicide carries in its aftermath a level of confusion and devastation that is, for the most part, beyond description.
• Once a restless or frayed mood has turned to anger, or violence, or psychosis, Richard, like most, finds it very difficult to see it as…
• I have had manic-depressive illness, also known as bipolar disorder, since I was 18 years old. It is an illness that ensures that those who…

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