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Suicide is not a blot on anyone’s name it is a tragedy
Kay Redfield Jamison
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Kay Redfield Jamison
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: June 22
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Anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's depression, bipolar illness or severe anxiety, whatever - actually has a fair amount of resilience in the sense that they've had to deal with suffering already, personal suffering.
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I think that for thousands of years people have made the observation that there are certain kinds of extreme depressive states that seem to be more likely to produce philosophers, people in the arts, unusually brilliant scientists.
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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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Anyone who suggests that coming back from suicidal despair is a straightforward journey has never taken it.
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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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Once a restless or frayed mood has turned to anger, or violence, or psychosis, Richard, like most, finds it very difficult to see it as illness, rather than being willful, angry, irrational or simply tiresome.
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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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One of the advantages of science is that one's work, ultimately, is either replicated or it is not.
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The complexities of what we are given in life are vast and beyond comprehension.
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Others would say to me, 'It is only temporary, it will pass, you will get over it,' but of course they had no idea how I felt, although they were certain that they did. Over and over and over I would say to myself, 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?
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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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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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