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A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions. (Kay Redfield Jamison)
Scientists have made extraordinary advances in understanding the brain and its disorders. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I am one of millions who have been treated for depression and gotten well; I was lucky enough to have a psychiatrist well versed in using lithium and knowledgeable about my illness, and who was also an excellent psychotherapist. View quote
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Mania is as bad as it gets. If not treated, it will become worse, more frequent, and harder to treat. View quote
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Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them. View quote
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With grief, you have reason to despair; it's a human thing. View quote
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There are a lot of studies that suggest a higher rate of creativity in bipolars than the general population. View quote
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There are scientists all around the world looking for the genes responsible for bipolar illness and major depression. View quote
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When I'm talking about depression, I'm talking about the more severe forms of depression, and I think that conceptualising as a form of grief is probably not the most effective way of looking at it. I mean, at the end of the day, people suffer enormously, and you want to treat it. (Kay Redfield Jamison)
Psychologists, for reasons of clinical necessity or vagaries of temperament, have chosen to dissect and catalog the morbid emotions - depression, anger, anxiety - and to leave largely unexamined the more vital, positive ones. View quote
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I think people don't understand how intimately tied suicide is to mental illness, particularly to depressive illness and bipolar illness. View quote
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Each way to suicide is its own: intensely private, unknowable, and terrible. Suicide will have seemed to its perpetrator the last and best of bad possibilities, and any attempt by the living to chart this final terrain of life can be only a sketch, maddeningly incomplete. View quote
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In depression, your capacity to feel just flattens and disappears and what you feel is pain and a kind of pain that you can't describe to anybody. So it's an isolating pain, a completely isolating pain. View quote
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It is true that I had wanted to die, but that is peculiarly different from regretting having been born. Overwhelmingly, I was enormously glad to have been born, grateful for life, and I couldn't imagine not wanting to pass on life to someone else. View quote
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I think that for thousands of years people have made the observation that there are certain kinds of extreme depressive states that seem to be more likely to produce philosophers, people in the arts, unusually brilliant scientists. View quote
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There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness and terror involved in this kind of madness... It will never end, for madness carves its own reality. View quote
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The complexities of what we are given in life are vast and beyond comprehension. View quote
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I am a huge advocate of prescription drugs given wisely and for the right reasons and the right diagnosis and also psychotherapy. View quote
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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)
Everyone has good cause for suicide, or at least it seems that way to those who search for it. (74) View quote
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Exuberance is a gift of grace that allows us to move on, to seek, to love again. View quote
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Suicide carries in its aftermath a level of confusion and devastation that is, for the most part, beyond description. View quote
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Nature is the first tutor. No one remains untouched or unschooled by the earth, seasons, and heavens. View quote
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