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Kay Redfield Jamison
Kay Redfield Jamison
American Psychologist
Born: Jun 22, 1946
Bipolar Depression Grief People Will You
Related authors: Abraham Maslow Angela Duckworth B. F. Skinner Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Erich Fromm Erik Erikson Phil McGraw Wayne Dyer
People respond differently to people who are grieving. They reach out. But depression is so very isolating. It's hard to explain to anyone who has never been depressed how isolating it is. Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting. Kay Redfield Jamison
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I think one thing is that anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's depression, bipolar illness or severe anxiety, whatever - actually has a fair amount of resilience in the sense that they've had to deal with suffering already, personal suffering. Kay Redfield Jamison
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You become aware of an illness by understanding yourself and understanding the meaning that that illness has in your own life, symbolically and, more importantly, quite literally. Kay Redfield Jamison
Life You Yourself Become Understanding Own More Importantly Quite Literally Meaning Your Illness Aware
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. Kay Redfield Jamison
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I have had manic-depressive illness, also known as bipolar disorder, since I was 18 years old. It is an illness that ensures that those who have it will experience a frightening, chaotic and emotional ride. It is not a gentle or easy disease. Kay Redfield Jamison
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I say I'm an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write. Kay Redfield Jamison
Say Hopkins Write Academic Psychiatry Professor
People talk about grief as if it's kind of an unremittingly awful thing, and it is. It is painful, but it's a very, very interesting sort of thing to go through, and it really helps you out. At the end of the day, it gets you through because you have to reform your relationship, and you have to figure out a way of getting to the future. Kay Redfield Jamison
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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
Confused Despairing Battleground Neurotic Beyond Been Place Psychotherapy Psychotic Elated Sanctuary Belief
No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills; likewise, no amount of psychotherapy alone can prevent my manias and depressions. I need both. Kay Redfield Jamison
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It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy. Kay Redfield Jamison
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Lithium prevents my seductive but disastrous highs, diminishes my depressions, clears out the wool and webbing from my disordered thinking, slows me down, gentles me out, keeps me from ruining my career and relationships, keeps me out of a hospital, alive, and makes psychotherapy possible. Kay Redfield Jamison
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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
Love Animals Circus Idea Attracted Always Veterinarian Being Zoo
There is no common standard for education about diagnosis. Distinguishing between bipolar depression and major depressive disorder, for example, can be difficult, and mistakes are common. Misdiagnosis can be lethal. Medications that work well for some forms of depression induce agitation in others. Kay Redfield Jamison
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We expect well-informed treatment for cancer or heart disease; it matters no less for depression. Kay Redfield Jamison
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There are scientists all around the world looking for the genes responsible for bipolar illness and major depression. Kay Redfield Jamison
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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. Kay Redfield Jamison
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'An Unquiet Mind' wasn't hard to write in terms of the actual writing of it. Kay Redfield Jamison
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