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One 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…
- St. Andrews provided a gentle forgetfulness over the preceding painful years of my life. It remains a haunting and lovely time to me, a marrow…
- An ardent temperament makes one very vulnerable to dreamkillers.
- 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…
- One of things so bad about depression and bipolar disorder is that if you don't have prior awareness, you don't have any idea what hit…
- Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one plays them, is,…
- the intensity, glory, and absolute assuredness if my mind's flight made it very difficult for me to believe once i was better, that the illness…
- Love, like life, is much stranger and far more complicated than one is brought up to believe.
- One of the advantages of science is that one's work, ultimately, is either replicated or it is not.
- No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills; likewise, no amount of psychotherapy alone can prevent my manias…
- No amount of love can cure madness or unblacken one's dark moods. Love can help, it can make the pain more tolerable, but, always, one…
- 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…
- It is tempting when looking at the life of anyone who has committed suicide to read into the decision to die a vastly complex web…
- Tumultuouness,if coupled to discipline and cool mind,is not such a bad sort of thing.That unless one wants to live a stunningly boring life,one ought to…
- One is what one is, and the dishonesty of hiding behind a degree, or a title, or any manner and collection of words, is still…
- I had a terrible temper, after all, and though it rarely erupted, when it did it frightened me and anyone near its epicenter. It was…
- But, with time, one has encountered many of the monsters, and one is increasingly less terrified of those still to be met.
- We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way…
- Moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow…
- Which of my feelings are real? Which of the me's is me? The wild, impulsive, chaotic, energetic, and crazy one? Or the shy, withdrawn, desperate,…
- I am one of millions who have been treated for depression and gotten well; I was lucky enough to have a psychiatrist well versed in…
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