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Kay Redfield Jamison Quotes

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 Picture Quote #1

I was late to understand that chaos and intensity are no subsitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life. Normal people are not always boring. On the contrary. Volatility and passion, although often more romantic and enticing, are not intrinsically preferable to a steadiness of experience and feeling about another person Picture Quote #1

I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice between seeing a psychiatrist or buying a horse. Since almost everyone I knew was seeing a psychiatrist, and since I had an absolute belief that I should be able to handle my own problems, I naturally bought a horse Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The intensity, glory, and absolute assuredness if my mind’s flight made it very difficult for me to believe once I was better, that the illness was one I should willingly give up... moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one’s notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow can be seen as temporary, even understandable reactions to what life has dealt... even though the depressions that inevitably followed nearly cost me my life Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

I had been simply treating water, settling on surviving and avoiding pain rather than being actively involved in seeking out life Picture Quote #1

They used to treat sheep carcasses with lithium so if the coyotes went after the herd and bit on the treated carcasses, the got so sick they kept their teeth to themselves Picture Quote #1

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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 (Kay Redfield Jamison Quotes) I was late to understand that chaos and intensity are no subsitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life. Normal people are not always boring. On the contrary. Volatility and passion, although often more romantic and enticing, are not intrinsically preferable to a steadiness of experience and feeling about another person (Kay Redfield Jamison Quotes) I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice between seeing a psychiatrist or buying a horse. Since almost everyone I knew was seeing a psychiatrist, and since I had an absolute belief that I should be able to handle my own problems, I naturally bought a horse (Kay Redfield Jamison Quotes) 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 Quotes) The intensity, glory, and absolute assuredness if my mind’s flight made it very difficult for me to believe once I was better, that the illness was one I should willingly give up... moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one’s notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow can be seen as temporary, even understandable reactions to what life has dealt... even though the depressions that inevitably followed nearly cost me my life (Kay Redfield Jamison Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) I had been simply treating water, settling on surviving and avoiding pain rather than being actively involved in seeking out life (Kay Redfield Jamison Quotes) They used to treat sheep carcasses with lithium so if the coyotes went after the herd and bit on the treated carcasses, the got so sick they kept their teeth to themselves (Kay Redfield Jamison Quotes)

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