An Unquiet Mind

by Kay Redfield Jamison

Feeling normal for any extended period of time raises hopes that turn out, almost invariably, to be writ on water.

When I am my present “normal” self, I am far removed from when I have been my liveliest, most productive, most intense, most outgoing and effervescent. In short, for myself, I am a hard act to follow.

I really believed all of the things I had been taught about weathering it through, self-reliance, and not imposing your problems on other people.