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I look back over my shoulder and feel the presence of an intense young girl and then a volatile and disturbed young woman, both with high dreams and restless, romantic aspirations

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Kay Redfield Jamison
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: June 22
Essayist
Psychologist
Feels
Woman
Shoulder
Girl
Aspiration
Dream
Romantic
Young
Shoulders
Back
Intense
Volatile
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Looks
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Disturbed
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High
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In depression, your capacity to feel just flattens and disappears and what you feel is pain and a kind of pain that you can't describe to anybody. So it's an isolating pain, a completely isolating pain.
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One of the advantages of science is that one's work, ultimately, is either replicated or it is not.
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But, with time, one has encountered many of the monsters, and one is increasingly less terrified of those still to be met.
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In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief and they really need to be treated for depression.
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From a public health point of view, still the overwhelming problem is that people are not treated enough for depression depression remains under treated.
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Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live.
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I think that when you're depressed, you can't concentrate long enough and well enough to read for the most part some people can, but by and large people - that's one of the first things that goes, is the capacity to read meaningful literature. With grief, that's not true. For a while you can't read, but then you really are amenable to solace.
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I think people don't understand how intimately tied suicide is to mental illness, particularly to depressive illness and bipolar illness.
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We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way we do this--through love, work, family, faith, friends, denial, alcohol, drugs, or medication, we build these walls, stone by stone, over a lifetime.
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There are relatively few things that kill people that are young other than car accidents and suicide.
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Never once, during any of my bouts of depression, had I been inclined or able to pick up a telephone and ask a friend for help. It wasn't in me.
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Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were.
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Look to the living, love them, and hold on.
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I was bitterly resentful, but somehow greatly relieved. And I respected him enormously for his clarity of thought, his obvious caring, and his unwillingness to equivocate in delivering bad news.
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But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania, when most depressed, you're given excellent reason to be even more so.
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Looking at suicide—the sheer numbers, the pain leading up to it, and the suffering left behind—is harrowing. For every moment of exuberance in the science, or in the success of governments, there is a matching and terrible reality of the deaths themselves: the young deaths, the violent deaths, the unnecessary deaths
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Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by impulse and irrationality, are influenced as well by personal aesthetics and private meanings.
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Suicide is not a blot on anyone’s name it is a tragedy
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Anyone who suggests that coming back from suicidal despair is a straightforward journey has never taken it.
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Suicide Note: The calm, Cool face of the river Asked me for a kiss. -Langston Hughes
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