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Exuberance is a gift of grace that allows us to move on, to seek, to love again.

Kay Redfield Jamison

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Kay Redfield Jamison
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: June 22
Essayist
Psychologist
Move
Grace
Passion
Moving
Love
Exuberance
Allows
Gift
Seek

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Everything previously moving with the grain is now against - you are irritable, angry, frightened, uncontrollable, and enmeshed totally in the blackest caves of the mind. You never knew those caves were there. It will never end, for madness carves its own reality.
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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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Which of my feelings are real? Which of the me's is me? The wild, impulsive, chaotic, energetic, and crazy one? Or the shy, withdrawn, desperate, suicidal, doomed, and tired one? Probably a bit of both, hopefully much that is neither.
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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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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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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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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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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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Confidentiality is an ancient and well-warranted social value.
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The complexities of what we are given in life are vast and beyond comprehension.
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