Kay Redfield Jamison Quotes
Top 70 wise famous quotes and sayings by Kay Redfield Jamison
Kay Redfield Jamison Famous Quotes & Sayings
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There are relatively few things that kill people that are young other than car accidents and suicide.
I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that was strangely heartening.
I am a huge advocate of prescription drugs given wisely and for the right reasons and the right diagnosis and also psychotherapy.
If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?
I never again looked at the sky and saw only vastness and beauty. From that afternoon on I saw that death was also and always there.
He thought of women in terms of breasts, not minds, and it always seemed to irritate him that most women had both.
I occasionally laugh and tell him that his imperturbability is worth three hundred milligrams of lithium a day to me, and it is probably true.
I am tired of hiding, tired of misspent and knotted energies, tired of the hypocrisy, and tired of acting as though I have something to hide.
Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by impulse and irrationality, are influenced as well by personal aesthetics and private meanings.
Psychotherapy is a sanctuary; it is a battleground; it is a place I have been psychotic, neurotic, elated, confused, and despairing beyond belief.
We each move within the restraints of our temperament and live up only partially to its possibilities.
I love animals, and I was always attracted to the idea of being a zoo veterinarian or a veterinarian with the circus.
Nature is the first tutor. No one remains untouched or unschooled by the earth, seasons, and heavens.
Patient reluctant to be with people when depressed because she feels her depression is such an intolerable burden on others;
Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that's just given.
Never once, during any of my bouts of depression, had I been inclined or able to pick up a telephone and ask a friend for help. It wasn't in me.
I think wanting to write is a fundamental sign of disease and discomfort. I don't think people who are comfortable want to write ...
Anyone who suggests that coming back from suicidal despair is a straightforward journey has never taken it.
In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief, and they really need to be treated for depression.
Seemed to myself to be dull, boring, inadequate, thick brained, unlit, unresponsive, chill skinned, bloodless, and sparrow drab.
There are scientists all around the world looking for the genes responsible for bipolar illness and major depression.
Chaos and intensity are no substitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life.
I had been simply treating water, settling on surviving and avoiding pain rather than being actively involved in seeking out life.
Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were.
The ancient dialogue between reason and the senses is almost always more interestingly and passionately resolved in favor of the senses.
I think people don't understand how intimately tied suicide is to mental illness, particularly to depressive illness and bipolar illness.
There are a lot of studies that suggest a higher rate of creativity in bipolars than the general population.
You're frightened, and you're frightening, and you're 'not at all like yourself but you will be soon,' but you know you won't.
A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions.
Feeling normal for any extended period of time raises hopes that turn out, almost invariably, to be writ on water.
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 you.
Mania is as bad as it gets. If not treated, it will become worse, more frequent, and harder to treat.
It is the history of our kindnesses that alone makes this world tolerable," wrote Robert Louis Stevenson. "If
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 exactly that: dishonest.
It was a tribute to my ability to present an image so at variance with what I felt that few noticed I was in any way different.
I realized that it was not that I didn't want to go on without him. I did. It was just that I didn't know why I wanted to go on
The assumption that rigidly rejecting words and phrases that have existed for centuries will have much impact on public attitudes is rather dubious.