Kay Redfield Jamison
Kay Redfield Jamison
Kay Redfield Jamisonis an American clinical psychologist and writer. Her work has centered on bipolar disorder, which she has had since her early adulthood. She holds a post of Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and is an Honorary Professor of English at the University of St Andrews...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth22 June 1946
CountryUnited States of America
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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?
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We all move uneasily within our restraints.
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Exuberance is a gift of grace that allows us to move on, to seek, to love again.
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Everything previously moving with the grain is now against - you are irritable, angry, frightened, uncontrollable, and enmeshed totally in the blackest caves of the mind. You never knew those caves were there. It will never end, for madness carves its own reality.
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Others would say to me, 'It is only temporary, it will pass, you will get over it,' but of course they had no idea how I felt, although they were certain that they did. Over and over and over I would say to myself, 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?
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It's more common than not that bipolar illness will start in the teens. One of the reasons I spend a lot of time on college campuses is exactly that reason. It's terribly important to talk to students about knowing these things in advance.
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It is important to value intellect and discipline, of course, but it is also important to recognize the power of irrationality, enthusiasm and vast energy.
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An intense temperament has convinced me to teach not only from books but from what I have learned from experience. So I try to impress upon young doctors and graduate students that tumultuousness, if coupled to discipline and a cool mind, is not such a bad sort of thing.
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Mania is as bad as it gets. If not treated, it will become worse, more frequent, and harder to treat.
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I say I'm an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write.
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'An Unquiet Mind' wasn't hard to write in terms of the actual writing of it.
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We expect well-informed treatment for cancer or heart disease; it matters no less for depression.
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In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief, and they really need to be treated for depression.
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There are a lot of studies that suggest a higher rate of creativity in bipolars than the general population.