Kay Redfield Jamison

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June 22, 1946 in The United States

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Kay Redfield Jamison is an American clinical psychologist and writer who is one of the foremost experts on bipolar disorder. She is Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and is an Honorary Professor of English at the University of St Andrews.

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Average rating: 3.95 · 14,806 ratings · 1,362 reviews · 13 distinct works

	An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness 3.96 avg rating — 11,330 ratings — published 1995 — 23 editions	My rating:
	Touched with Fire: Manic-depressive Illness & the Artistic Temperament 3.92 avg rating — 1,453 ratings — published 1991 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide 4.00 avg rating — 1,269 ratings — published 1999 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Nothing Was the Same 3.72 avg rating — 351 ratings — published 2009 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Exuberance: The Passion for Life 3.72 avg rating — 299 ratings — published 2004 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Understanding Depression: What We Know and What You Can Do about It by J. Raymond DePaulo, Jr., Kay Redfield Jamison, Leslie Alan Horvitz 3.53 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Manic Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders And Recurrent Depression by Frederick K. Goodwin, Kay Redfield Jamison 4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings	My rating:
	Manic Depressive Illness Bipolar Disorders And Recurrent Depression Volume I, (Volume I) by Frederick K. Goodwin, Kay Redfield Jamison 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings	My rating:
	Sōutsubyō O Ikiru: Watashi Wa Kono Zankoku De Miwakutekina Byōki O Aiseruka by Kay R Jamison, Kay Redfield Jamison (原著), 田中啓子 (翻訳) 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1998	My rating:
	Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression by Frederick K. Goodwin, Kay Redfield Jamison 4.26 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“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 there in living?”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

tags: bipolar-disorder , depression , mood-disorders

172 people liked it

“Others imply that they know what it is like to be depressed because they have gone through a divorce, lost a job, or broken up with someone. But these experiences carry with them feelings. Depression, instead, is flat, hollow, and unendurable. It is also tiresome. People cannot abide being around you when you are depressed. They might think that they ought to, and they might even try, but you know and they know that you are tedious beyond belief: you are irritable and paranoid and humorless and lifeless and critical and demanding and no reassurance is ever enough. You're frightened, and you're frightening, and you're "not at all like yourself but will be soon," but you know you won't.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

tags: bipolar , depression , illness

167 people liked it

“There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous. The ideas and feelings are fast and frequent like shooting stars, and you follow them until you find better and brighter ones. Shyness goes, the right words and gestures are suddenly there, the power to captivate others a felt certainty. There are interests found in uninteresting people. Sensuality is pervasive and the desire to seduce and be seduced irresistible. Feelings of ease, intensity, power, well-being, financial omnipotence, and euphoria pervade one's marrow. But, somewhere, this changes. The fast ideas are far too fast, and there are far too many; overwhelming confusion replaces clarity. Memory goes. Humor and absorption on friends' faces are replaced by fear and concern. Everything previously moving with the grain is now against-- you are irritable, angry, frightened, uncontrollable, and enmeshed totally in the blackest caves of the mind. You never knew those caves were there. It will never end, for madness carves its own reality.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

tags: bipolar , mental-illness , psychology

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