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Kay Redfield Jamison

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Kay Redfield Jamison (born June 22, 1946) 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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I first read An Unquiet Mind when I was 16, and since then I have recommended it to countless people. To me, it is timeless, it is a classic. Did you have any idea how much your very personal story would resonate with so many people when you first wrote it?

Kay Redfield Jamison Cait, Thank you for your question. This is my first time writing on Goodreads so it is a bit of an adventure. I didn’t have any idea what the reaction…moreCait, Thank you for your question. This is my first time writing on Goodreads so it is a bit of an adventure. I didn’t have any idea what the reaction to An Unquiet Mind would be; I was quite anxious about personal and professional repercussions and was doubly delighted, then, that people wrote that it had hit a chord with them. Bipolar disorder is common but not talked about as much as it should be. It is awful to feel that one is alone with it.(less)

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How does Robert Lowell relate to the vast community of people living healthily with mental illness?

Kay Redfield Jamison Bryan, Robert Lowell in many ways was not at all typical of people with mental illness—he was a great poet, by definition extremely unusual, and he ca…moreBryan, Robert Lowell in many ways was not at all typical of people with mental illness—he was a great poet, by definition extremely unusual, and he came from a privileged background that allowed him access to unusually good psychiatric treatment. But he knew the suffering that comes with severe depression and mania, perhaps even more so than most because he had a particularly virulent form of manic-depression / bipolar disorder (he was hospitalized for his illness nearly twenty times). His poetry and other writing is remarkably powerful in capturing not only what mania and depression are like to experience, but the pain associated with them. He was also deeply courageous in dealing with his mental illness, which I write about this extensively in “Robert Lowell : Setting the River on Fire”.
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Average rating: 4.05 · 95,256 ratings · 5,799 reviews · 35 distinct works • Similar authors

	An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness 4.06 avg rating — 79,911 ratings — published 1995 — 80 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide 4.11 avg rating — 6,670 ratings — published 1999 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament 4.03 avg rating — 5,083 ratings — published 1993 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nothing Was the Same 3.87 avg rating — 1,525 ratings — published 2009 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Exuberance: The Passion for Life 3.80 avg rating — 880 ratings — published 2004 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character 4.14 avg rating — 513 ratings — published 2017 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fires in the Dark: Healing the Unquiet Mind 3.50 avg rating — 244 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Una mente inquieta by Kay Redfield Jamison (Goodreads Author), E. Campominosi (Translator) 3.97 avg rating — 31 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bipolar: Testimonio sobre afectos y locura by Kay Redfield Jamison (Goodreads Author), Manuel Talens (Translator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 27 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Man Meets Microbes 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1984	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“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

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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

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“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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