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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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Suicide Note: The calm, Cool face of the river Asked me for a kiss. -Langston Hughes
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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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One of the advantages of science is that one's work, ultimately, is either replicated or it is not.
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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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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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Suicide is not a blot on anyone’s name it is a tragedy
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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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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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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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There are relatively few things that kill people that are young other than car accidents and suicide.
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I am tired of hiding, tired of misspent and knotted energies, tired of the hypocrisy, and tired of acting as though I have something to hide.
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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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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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Curiosity, wonder, and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers...Restlessness and discontent are vital things... Intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways less intense emotions can never do.
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Look to the living, love them, and hold on.
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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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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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The ancient dialogue between reason and the senses is almost always more interestingly and passionately resolved in favor of the senses.
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