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Thank you for a lovely weekend.They tell me it rained. — Kay Redfield Jamison
Often, people want both to live and to die; ambivalence saturates the suicidal act.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
There are relatively few things that kill people that are young other than car accidents and suicide.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Most people don't have the advantage of being able to evaluate their doctor in advance.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Look to the living, love them, and hold on.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
I am a huge advocate of prescription drugs given wisely and for the right reasons and the right diagnosis and also psychotherapy.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
An ardent temperament makes one very vulnerable to dreamkillers.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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?
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Like my father, I looked up rather more than I looked out.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
We all move uneasily within our restraints.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
He thought of women in terms of breasts, not minds, and it always seemed to irritate him that most women had both.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
The complexities of what we are given in life are vast and beyond comprehension.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Exuberance is a gift of grace that allows us to move on, to seek, to love again.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by impulse and irrationality, are influenced as well by personal aesthetics and private meanings.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Psychotherapy is a sanctuary; it is a battleground; it is a place I have been psychotic, neurotic, elated, confused, and despairing beyond belief.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
We each move within the restraints of our temperament and live up only partially to its possibilities.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Scientists have made extraordinary advances in understanding the brain and its disorders.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
I love animals, and I was always attracted to the idea of being a zoo veterinarian or a veterinarian with the circus.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Nature is the first tutor. No one remains untouched or unschooled by the earth, seasons, and heavens.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Patient reluctant to be with people when depressed because she feels her depression is such an intolerable burden on others;
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
'An Unquiet Mind' wasn't hard to write in terms of the actual writing of it.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
I think wanting to write is a fundamental sign of disease and discomfort. I don't think people who are comfortable want to write ...
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Love has, at its best, made the inherent sadness of life bearable, and its beauty manifest.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Anyone who suggests that coming back from suicidal despair is a straightforward journey has never taken it.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief, and they really need to be treated for depression.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Seemed to myself to be dull, boring, inadequate, thick brained, unlit, unresponsive, chill skinned, bloodless, and sparrow drab.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
There are scientists all around the world looking for the genes responsible for bipolar illness and major depression.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
I say I'm an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Chaos and intensity are no substitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
I had been simply treating water, settling on surviving and avoiding pain rather than being actively involved in seeking out life.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Suicide Note:The calm,
Cool face of the river
Asked me for a kiss.
-Langston Hughes — Kay Redfield Jamison
Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Confidentiality is an ancient and well-warranted social value.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Suicide is not a blot on anyone's name; it is a tragedy
— Kay Redfield Jamison
We have given sorrow many words, but a passion for life few.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
The ancient dialogue between reason and the senses is almost always more interestingly and passionately resolved in favor of the senses.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
I am reminded of the importance of small kindnesses.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
I think people don't understand how intimately tied suicide is to mental illness, particularly to depressive illness and bipolar illness.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
There are a lot of studies that suggest a higher rate of creativity in bipolars than the general population.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Th Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Everyone has good cause for suicide, or at least it seems that way to those who search for it. (74)
— Kay Redfield Jamison
It never occurred to her to give up.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Without science, there would be no such hope.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Love, like life, is much stranger and far more complicated than one is brought up to believe.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Feeling normal for any extended period of time raises hopes that turn out, almost invariably, to be writ on water.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
One of the advantages of science is that one's work, ultimately, is either replicated or it is not.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Nothing good comes out of depression.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Mania is as bad as it gets. If not treated, it will become worse, more frequent, and harder to treat.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
It is the history of our kindnesses that alone makes this world tolerable," wrote Robert Louis Stevenson. "If
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
We expect well-informed treatment for cancer or heart disease; it matters no less for depression.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
With grief, you have reason to despair; it's a human thing.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Now I had no choice but to live in the broken world that my mind had forced upon me.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
The assumption that rigidly rejecting words and phrases that have existed for centuries will have much impact on public attitudes is rather dubious.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
But, with time, one has encountered many of the monsters, and one is increasingly less terrified of those still to be met.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Violence, especially if you are a woman, is not something spoken about with ease.
— Kay Redfield Jamison