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" Scientists have made extraordinary advances in understanding the brain and its disorders. "

Kay Redfield Jamison

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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

" 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

" I say I'm an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write. "

Kay Redfield Jamison

" 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

" With grief, you have reason to despair; it's a human thing. "

Kay Redfield Jamison

" 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

" 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

" 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

" 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. "

Kay Redfield Jamison

" 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

" 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

" There are a lot of studies that suggest a higher rate of creativity in bipolars than the general population. "

Kay Redfield Jamison

" Because I teach and write about depression and bipolar illness, I am often asked what is the most important factor in treating bipolar disorder. My answer is competence. Empathy is important, but competence is essential. "

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. "

Kay Redfield Jamison

" We expect well-informed treatment for cancer or heart disease; it matters no less for depression. "

Kay Redfield Jamison

" 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

" There are scientists all around the world looking for the genes responsible for bipolar illness and major depression. "

Kay Redfield Jamison

" 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. "

Kay Redfield Jamison

" 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

" Never once, during any of my bouts of depression, had I been inclined or able to pick up a telephone and ask a friend for help. It wasn't in me. "

Kay Redfield Jamison

" Confidentiality is an ancient and well-warranted social value. "

Kay Redfield Jamison

" Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better. "

Kay Redfield Jamison

" Mood disorders are terribly painful illnesses, and they are isolating illnesses. And they make people feel terrible about themselves when, in fact, they can be treated. "

Kay Redfield Jamison

" When public figures remain silent about depression, there is a cost to the rest of society. Silence contributes to the misperception that successful people do not get depressed, and it keeps the public from seeing that treatment allows many individuals to return to competitive professional lives. "

Kay Redfield Jamison

" 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

" 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

" 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

" A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions. "

Kay Redfield Jamison

" 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

" I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways that less intense emotions can never do. "

Kay Redfield Jamison