About Quote by Kay Redfield Jamison

I have family members that are bipolar. One had a case recently that I witnessed, and it was very, very helpful.

— Trai Byers

When I taught writing classes to psychiatric patients, I met people whose stories of manic highs and immobilizing lows appeared to be textbook descriptions…

— Siri Hustvedt

Many politicians, celebrities, businessmen and women, and community leaders now are open about their struggles with mental illnesses, something almost unheard of when I…

— Rosalynn Carter

When I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder the year I turned 50, it was certainly a shock. But as a journalist, knowing a little…

— Jane Pauley

There are scientists all around the world looking for the genes responsible for bipolar illness and major depression.

— Kay Redfield Jamison

People who are bipolar, they kind of latch onto things that are fanatical sometimes.

— Brad Garrett

“If you think there is something wrong with Bipolar People you might want to Google the Famous Bipolar List. Everyone on it had something…

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

“One of the things that baffles me (and there are quite a few) is how there can be so much lingering stigma with regards…

— Carrie Fisher

Living with bipolar has been debilitating and exhausting, accepting it has been relief, embracing it has been the miracle.

— Anonymous

“I won't say that writing tamed the Black Beast. It soothed him, though, enough so he agreed simply to occupy a corner of my…

— Terri Cheney

I was diagnosed as bipolar.

— David Harbour

Mood disorders are terribly painful illnesses, and they are isolating illnesses. And they make people feel terrible about themselves when, in fact, they can…

— Kay Redfield Jamison