Kay Redfield Jamison Quotes

Look to the living, love them, and hold on.

The fates and character of the rhyming tribe often employ my thoughts when I am disposed to be melancholy. There is not, among all the martyrologies that ever were penned, so rueful a narrative as the...

اكتئاب سوداوي حاد وانتحاري طويل استمر اكثر من سنة ونصف منذ استيقاظي في الصباح حتى وقت الذهاب لسريري للنوم في الليل كنت اشعر انني تعيسة بشكل لا يطاق وفاقدة القدرة على المتعة تماما ,كان كل شيئ يجهدني ,ا...

People who aren't as exuberant as you are get really irritated with you.

Depression is awful beyond words or sounds or images...it bleeds relationships through suspicion, lack of confidence and self-respect, the inability to enjoy life, to walk or talk or think normally, t...

Later, after Christmas carols and a nightcap of mulled ale in front of the fire, Mole reflects on how much he has missed the warmth and security of what he once had known, all of those friendly things...

بدأت أستمتع بالموسيقى و الرسومات مجددًا ، بدأت أضحك مجددًا ، بدأت أكتب الشعر مجددًا. ليالٍ طويلةٌ و صباحات مبكرة من العواطف الرائعة جعلتني أعيد الاعتقاد، أو أتذكر أهمية الإحساس بأن أعيش لأحب و أن أحب...

Mood disorders , in addition to exhibiting seasonal patterns, frequently show pronounced diurnal rhythms as well.

فضولي و مزاجي أخذاني إلى أماكن لم أكن قادرةً على وصولها بمشاعري .

كنت قد نسيت طعم الإحساس بالحياة عندما تنفتح الروح على الريح و المطر و الجمال، وبدأت أشعر بتسرب الحياة مجددا إلى التصدعات الموجودة في جسمي و عقلي اللذين كنت قد شطبتهما تماما باعتبارهما مستنزفين أو هامد...

لقد كُنتُ دائمًا أسيرة حالات مزاجية مرعبة ، رغم أنها دائمًا مدهشة. كنت عاطفية جدًا كطفلة ، و متقلبة المزاج كفتاة، و مكتئبة من الدرجة الأولى كمراهقة.

And increased energy)

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 far, the highest card I was dealt.

Her version of Lowell was not theirs, even when they were discussing the same symptoms; what to her was mad was to them another mark of Lowell’s genius.

Both individuals who are manic and those who are writers, when evaluated with neuropsychological tests, tend to combine ideas or images in a way that blurs, broadens, or shifts conceptual boundaries,...

Yet however genuinely dreadful these moods and memories have been, they have always been offset by the elation and vitality of others; and whenever a mild and gentlish wave of brilliant and bubbling m...

Much like crossing the Bay Bridge when there is a storm over the Chesapeake, one may be terrified to go forward, but there is no question of going back.

Thank you for a lovely weekend. They tell me it rained.

Mogens Schou, a Danish psychiatrist who, more than anyone, is responsible for the introduction of lithium as a treatment for manic-depressive illness,

But if love is not the cure, it certainly can act as a very strong medicine. As John Donne has written; it is not so pure and abstract as one might once have thought and wished, but it does endure and...