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.
Kay Redfield JamisonThe awareness of the damage done by severe mental illnessโto the individual himself and to othersโand fears that it may return again play a decisive role in many suicides
Kay Redfield JamisonLove, like life, is much stranger and far more complicated than one is brought up to believe.
Kay Redfield JamisonI don't think grief of grief in a medical way at all. I think that I and many of my colleagues, are very concerned when grief becomes pathological, that there is no question that grief can trigger depression in vulnerable people and there is no question that depression can make grief worse.
Kay Redfield JamisonExuberance is a gift of grace that allows us to move on, to seek, to love again.
Kay Redfield JamisonWhen people are suicidal, their thinking is paralyzed, their options appear spare or nonexistent, their mood is despairing, and hopelessness permeates their entire mental domain. The future cannot be separated from the present, and the present is painful beyond solace. โThis is my last experiment,โ wrote a young chemist in his suicide note. โIf there is any eternal torment worse than mine Iโll have to be shown.
Kay Redfield Jamison