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Manic Quotes by 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 decimated, your mortification…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful. In some strange way, I have tried to do…
- Far too many doctors-many of them excellent physicians-commit suicide each year; one recent study concluded that, until quite recently, the United States lost annually the…
- But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania, when most depressed,…
- I compare myself with my former self, not with others. Not only that, I tend to compare my current self with the best I have…
- 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. It…
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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… — Kay Redfield Jamison
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