American - Psychologist | June 22, 1946 -
There are a lot of studies that suggest a higher rate of creativity in bipolars than the general population.
Kay Redfield Jamison
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Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.
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I am one of millions who have been treated for depression and gotten well; I was lucky enough to have a psychiatrist well versed in using lithium and knowledgeable about my illness, and who was also an excellent psychotherapist.
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I say I'm an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write.
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There are scientists all around the world looking for the genes responsible for bipolar illness and major depression.
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It's more common than not that bipolar illness will start in the teens. One of the reasons I spend a lot of time on college campuses is exactly that reason. It's terribly important to talk to students about knowing these things in advance.
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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. At the end of the day, it gets you through because you have to reform your relationship, and you have to figure out a way of getting to the future.
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'An Unquiet Mind' wasn't hard to write in terms of the actual writing of it.
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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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It is important to value intellect and discipline, of course, but it is also important to recognize the power of irrationality, enthusiasm and vast energy.
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An intense temperament has convinced me to teach not only from books but from what I have learned from experience. So I try to impress upon young doctors and graduate students that tumultuousness, if coupled to discipline and a cool mind, is not such a bad sort of thing.
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When I'm talking about depression, I'm talking about the more severe forms of depression, and I think that conceptualising as a form of grief is probably not the most effective way of looking at it. I mean, at the end of the day, people suffer enormously, and you want to treat it.
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