251 Quotes by Kay Redfield Jamison

In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief, and they really need to be treated for depression.

We expect well-informed treatment for cancer or heart disease; it matters no less for depression.

'An Unquiet Mind' wasn't hard to write in terms of the actual writing of it.

I say I'm an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write.

Mania is as bad as it gets. If not treated, it will become worse, more frequent, and harder to treat.

An intense temperament has convinced me to teach not only from books but from what I have learned from experience. So I try to impress upon young doctors and graduate students that tumultuousness, if coupled to discipline and a cool mind, is not such a bad sort of thing.

It is important to value intellect and discipline, of course, but it is also important to recognize the power of irrationality, enthusiasm and vast energy.

It's more common than not that bipolar illness will start in the teens. One of the reasons I spend a lot of time on college campuses is exactly that reason. It's terribly important to talk to students about knowing these things in advance.

People talk about grief as if it's kind of an unremittingly awful thing, and it is. It is painful, but it's a very, very interesting sort of thing to go through and it really helps you out.