"As best I could make out, having never……" — Kay Redfield Jamison
"As best I could make out, having never heard the term until I arrived in California, being a WASP meant being mossbacked, lockjawed, rigid, humorless, cold, charmless, insipid, less than penetratingly bright, but otherwise---and inexplicably---to be envied."
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Kay Redfield Jamison
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104 Quotes by Kay Redfield Jamison
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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…
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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…
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But then back on lithium and rotating on the planet at the same pace as everyone else, you find your…
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It was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse.…
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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…
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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…
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Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts…
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I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about…
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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…
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Others would say to me, 'It is only temporary, it will pass, you will get over it,' but of course…
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Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the…
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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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