Quotes by : Kay Redfield Jamison

It is tempting when looking at the life of anyone who has committed suicide to read into the decision....

I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down....

Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially....

Far too many doctors-many of them excellent physicians-commit suicide each year; one recent study concluded....

It took me far too long to realize that lost years and relationships cannot be recovered. That damage....

But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense....

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....

I long ago abandoned the notion of a life without storms, or a world without dry and killing seasons.....

I realized that it was not that I didn’t want to go on without him. I did. It was just that I didn’t....

One of the advantages of science is that one's work, ultimately, is either replicated or it is not.