Quotes by Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

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We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. — Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice betwee — Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
One of the advantages of science is that one's work, ultimately, is either replicated or it is not. — Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
But, with time, one has encountered many of the monsters, and one is increasingly less terrified of those still to be me — Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one plays them, is, by — Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high i — Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
I compare myself with my former self, not with others. Not only that, I tend to compare my current self with the best I — Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
Her parents, she said, has put a pinball machine inside her head when she was five years old. The red balls told her whe — Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
Others imply that they know what it is like to be depressed because they have gone through a divorce, lost a job, or bro — Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
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, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
No amount of love can cure madness or unblacken one's dark moods. Love can help, it can make the pain more tolerable, bu — Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. — Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills; likewise, no amount of psychotherapy alone can p — Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based th — Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
When I am high I couldn’t worry about money if I tried. So I don’t. The money will come from somewhere; I am entitled; G — Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
When both she and I had to deal with our respective demons, my sister saw the darkness as being within and part of herse — Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
God only knew what ran underneath the fierce self-discipline and emotional control that had come with my upbringing. But — Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
Depression, somehow, is much more in line with society's notions of what women are all about: passive, sensitive, hopele — Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
It took me far too long to realize that lost years and relationships cannot be recovered. That damage done to oneself an — Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
I long ago abandoned the notion of a life without storms, or a world without dry and killing seasons. Life is too compli — Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness