Everyone has good cause for suicide, or at least it seems that way to those who search for it. (74) Kay Redfield Jamison More Quotes by Kay Redfield Jamison More Quotes From Kay Redfield Jamison Curiosity, wonder, and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers...Restlessness and discontent are vital things... Intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways less intense emotions can never do. Kay Redfield Jamison passion curiosity teacher I think that one of the many advantages of death accruing over a long period of time is that you do have time to meet a lot of other people who are going through similar situations and one of the great delights of our life actually was sitting around in labs waiting for the results of tests and talking to other people who were waiting to find out whether their cancer numbers were going in the right direction or not. Kay Redfield Jamison cancer numbers thinking Nothing good comes out of depression. Kay Redfield Jamison Suicide Note: The calm, Cool face of the river Asked me for a kiss. -Langston Hughes Kay Redfield Jamison kissing suicide rivers But, with time, one has encountered many of the monsters, and one is increasingly less terrified of those still to be met. Kay Redfield Jamison mets fear monsters Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were. Kay Redfield Jamison mental-health complicated people An ardent temperament makes one very vulnerable to dreamkillers. Kay Redfield Jamison ardent temperament vulnerable We all move uneasily within our restraints. Kay Redfield Jamison restraint moving Who would not want an illness that has among its symptoms elevated and expansive mood, inflated self-esteem, abundance of energy, less need for sleep, intensified sexuality, and- most germane to our argument here-"sharpened and unusually creative thinking" and "increased productivity"? Kay Redfield Jamison self-esteem sleep thinking Look to the living, love them, and hold on. Kay Redfield Jamison looks 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 dubious impact attitude Tumultuouness,if coupled to discipline and cool mind,is not such a bad sort of thing.That unless one wants to live a stunningly boring life,one ought to terms with one`s darker side ad one`s darker energies Kay Redfield Jamison discipline energy mind Suicide is not a blot on anyone’s name; it is a tragedy Kay Redfield Jamison suicidal suicide names One of the advantages of science is that one's work, ultimately, is either replicated or it is not. Kay Redfield Jamison advantage St. Andrews provided a gentle forgetfulness over the preceding painful years of my life. It remains a haunting and lovely time to me, a marrow experience. For one who during her undergraduate years was trying to escape an inexplicable weariness and despair, St. Andrews was an amulet against all manner of longing and loss, a year of gravely held but joyous remembrances. Kay Redfield Jamison remembrance loss years Without science, there would be no such hope. Kay Redfield Jamison would-be When I am high I couldn't worry about money of I tried. So I don't. The money will come from from somewhere; I am entitled; God will provide. Credit cards are disastrous, personal checks worse. Unfortunately, for manics anyway, mania is a natural extension of the economy. Kay Redfield Jamison bipolar worry cards It was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse. It was a horse without a name, and a horse with no experience of a bit between its teeth. My mother taught me to gentle it; gave me the discipline and love to break it; and- as Alexander had known so intuitively with Bucephalus- she understood, and taught me, that the beast was best handled by turning it toward the sun. Kay Redfield Jamison horse mother depression 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 bipolar optimist suicide 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 giving-up depression believe
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