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Confidentiality is an ancient and well-warranted social value.

Kay Redfield Jamison

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Kay Redfield Jamison
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: June 22
Essayist
Psychologist
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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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People talk about grief as if it's kind of an unremittingly awful thing, and it is. It is painful, but it's a very, very interesting sort of thing to go through and it really helps you out.
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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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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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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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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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An ardent temperament makes one very vulnerable to dreamkillers.
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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 am reminded of the importance of small kindnesses.
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Suicide Note: The calm, Cool face of the river Asked me for a kiss. -Langston Hughes
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Exuberance is a gift of grace that allows us to move on, to seek, to love again.
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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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There are relatively few things that kill people that are young other than car accidents and suicide.
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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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There is always a part of my mind that is preparing for the worst, and another part of my mind that believes if I prepare enough for it, the worst won’t happen.
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Everyone has good cause for suicide, or at least it seems that way to those who search for it. (74)
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Look to the living, love them, and hold on.
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Suicide is not a blot on anyone’s name it is a tragedy
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Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting
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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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