"Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide.……" — Kay Redfield Jamison
"Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving the lives of those who are in such despair as to want to end them. It is a societal illusion that suicide is rare. It is not."
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Kay Redfield Jamison
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104 Quotes by Kay Redfield Jamison
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