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An ardent temperament makes one very vulnerable to dreamkillers.

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Kay Redfield Jamison
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: June 22
Essayist
Psychologist
Ardent
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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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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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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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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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Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting
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Suicide Note: The calm, Cool face of the river Asked me for a kiss. -Langston Hughes
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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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I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice between seeing a psychiatrist or buying a horse. Since almost everyone I knew was seeing a psychiatrist, and since I had an absolute belief that I should be able to handle my own problems, I naturally bought a horse.
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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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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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Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one plays them, is, by far, the highest card I was dealt.
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The quickness and flexibility of a well mind, a belief or hope that things will eventually sort themselves out-these are the resources lost to a person when the brain is ill.
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The assumption that rigidly rejecting words and phrases that have existed for centuries will have much impact on public attitudes is rather dubious.
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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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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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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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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
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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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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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