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Kay Redfield Jamison has 105 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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I think wanting to write is a fundamental sign of disease and discomfort. I don't think people who are comfortable want to…
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But then back on lithium and rotating on the planet at the same pace as everyone else, you find your credit is…
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It was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse. It was…
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There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous.…
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When I am high I couldn't worry about money of I tried. So I don't. The money will come from from somewhere;…
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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…
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I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that…
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I have often asked myself whether, given the choice, I would choose to have manic-depressive illness. If lithium were not available to…
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Others would say to me, 'It is only temporary, it will pass, you will get over it,' but of course they had…
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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…
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Anyone who suggests that coming back from suicidal despair is a straightforward journey has never taken it.
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In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.
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Without doubt, ferocious and disordered men are much weaker than timid and ordered ones. For order chases fear from men and disorder…
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Military arrangement, and movements in consequence, like the mechanism of a clock, will be imperfectand disordered by the want of a part.
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Our culture's adjustment to the epistemology of television is by now all but complete; we have so thoroughly accepted its definitions of…
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I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art can overturn, viz. that the…
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The desire of advising has a very extensive prevalence; and, since advice cannot be given but to those that will hear it,…
— Samuel Johnson
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Most women in our culture, then, are disordered when it comes to issues of self-worth, self-entitlement, self-nourishment, and comfort with their own…
— Susan Bordo
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Man spends a great deal of time making order out of chaos, yet insists that the emotions be disordered. I order my…
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The point is that (little-t) truth is a matter of definition relative to the grid one is using at the moment, and…
— Malaclypse the Younger
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A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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The creative person prefers the richness of the disordered to the stark barrenness of the simple.
— Donald M. MacKinnon
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To discover the soul living in somebody's body, we watch the surrounding of the body, and if it's messy and disordered, so…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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