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 I, quite literally, woke up from a coma, from having tried to kill myself and it was very clear to me what my psychiatrist had been saying for years. The choice is not between a drug that has side effects or not, life is not ideal. Yes, your drug has side effects and yes if you don't take it you're going to die. Kay Redfield Jamison drug choices years Most people don't have the advantage of being able to evaluate their doctor in advance. Kay Redfield Jamison doctors able people There are relatively few things that kill people that are young other than car accidents and suicide. Kay Redfield Jamison car suicide people People are more impulsive and they get slightly less impulsive as they get older and the impulsiveness interacting with the depression is particularly devastating and lethal, potentially lethal. Kay Redfield Jamison interacting impulsive people I think that for thousands of years people have made the observation that there are certain kinds of extreme depressive states that seem to be more likely to produce philosophers, people in the arts, unusually brilliant scientists. Kay Redfield Jamison years art thinking I think psychotherapy saves lives and is hugely meaningful and I think that one of the unfortunate aspects of prescription drugs working well is that people tend to think that's enough. Kay Redfield Jamison meaningful people thinking In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief and they really need to be treated for depression. Kay Redfield Jamison grief people needs If people can talk about having breast cancer, why can't people who have mental illness talk about mental illness? Until we're able to do that, we're not going to be treated with the same kind of respect for our diseases as other people. Kay Redfield Jamison cancer disease people I think you have waves of awareness and one of the things that I found with grief was actually - I was well prepared for it by the cyclicality of my manic depressive illness because I was used to things coming and going and so forth. Kay Redfield Jamison awareness grief thinking 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 day you future relationship 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 think anxiety suffering depression 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 beyond place confused belief Lithium remains the gold standard, but many drugs now treat bipolar disorder. Medication is critical and should be combined with psychotherapy. Compliance is a major problem. Patients believe that once they're better, they no longer need the medication. It doesn't work that way. Kay Redfield Jamison treat gold work believe Mania is as bad as it gets. If not treated, it will become worse, more frequent, and harder to treat. Kay Redfield Jamison treat more will bad 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 society silence depression people Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them. Kay Redfield Jamison without boring complicated people 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 great passion experience believe 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 value discipline energy power Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that's just given. Kay Redfield Jamison will you grief love 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 hospital down me thinking
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