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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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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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Then here's to the heartening wassail, Wherever good fellows are found; Be its master instead of its vassal, and order the glasses…
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Here's a toast to the roast that good fellowship lends, with the sparkle of beer and wine; May its sentiment always be…
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I've been ignored for 20 years but now it's heartening to get some recognition.
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There's no telling from poem to poem where this brilliant 'conversation' about maleness and gender will lead---there are poems about husbands and…
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Nobody knows anything. I deal with people in all walks of life, some of whom should have some idea of what they're…
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There are so many different kinds of writing and so many ways to work that the only rule is this: do what…
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It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this…
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One of the most heartening phenomena in today's Britain is the great diversity of the modern nerd - the nerd is out…
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