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I realized that it was not that I didn’t want to go on without him. I did. It was just that I didn’t know why I wanted to go on
Kay Redfield Jamison
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Kay Redfield Jamison
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: June 22
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I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that was strangely heartening.
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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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Mood disorders are terribly painful illnesses, and they are isolating illnesses. And they make people feel terrible about themselves when, in fact, they can be treated.
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Look to the living, love them, and hold on.
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Love, like life, is much stranger and far more complicated than one is brought up to believe.
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