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. … ▶372HopeHumanitySadness
Kay Redfield JamisonSuicide Note: The calm, Cool face of the river Asked me for a kiss. -Langston Hughes373Truth
Kay Redfield JamisonEach way to suicide is its own: intensely private, unknowable, and terrible. Suicide will have seemed to its perpetrator the last and best of bad possibilities, and any attempt by… ▶342Life
Kay Redfield JamisonIt was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse. It was a horse without a name, and a horse with no experience of a bit be… ▶321LifeLove
Kay Redfield JamisonAnyone who suggests that coming back from suicidal despair is a straightforward journey has never taken it. ✨ Kay Redfield Jamison (2011). Night Falls Fast: Understanding Su… ▶365Philosophy
Kay Redfield JamisonThere 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. ✨ Kay Redfie… ▶332Thought
Kay Redfield JamisonWe all move uneasily within our restraints. ✨ Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness, p.69, Pan Macmillan344Thought
Kay Redfield JamisonMother, 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. ✨ Kay Redfield Jam… ▶344LifeThought
Kay Redfield JamisonIt is tempting when looking at the life of anyone who has committed suicide to read into the decision to die a vastly complex web of reasons; and, of course, such complexity is wa… ▶333DeathLifeLove
Kay Redfield JamisonWhen I am high I couldn't worry about money of I tried. So I don't. The money will come from from somewhere; I am entitled; God will provide. Credit cards are disastrous, personal… ▶312Thought
Kay Redfield JamisonThe complexities of what we are given in life are vast and beyond comprehension. ✨ Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness, p.75, Pan Mac… ▶345LifeThought
Kay Redfield JamisonEvery seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving the lives of those who are in such despai… ▶324Humanity
Kay Redfield JamisonChaos and intensity are no substitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life. ✨ Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moo… ▶335LifeLoveThought
Kay Redfield JamisonAs best I could make out, having never heard the term until I arrived in California, being a WASP meant being mossbacked, lockjawed, rigid, humorless, cold, charmless, insipid, le… ▶302HopeHumorThought
Kay Redfield JamisonEveryone has good cause for suicide, or at least it seems that way to those who search for it. (74) ✨ Kay Redfield Jamison (2011). Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide, p… ▶346Politics
Kay Redfield JamisonCuriosity, wonder, and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers...Restlessness and discontent are vital things... Intense experience and suffering in… ▶369LifeLoveThought
Kay Redfield JamisonIt is true that I had wanted to die , but that is peculiarly different from regretting having been born. Overwhelmingly, I was enormously glad to have been born, grateful for life… ▶303DeathLifeTruth
Kay Redfield JamisonI had a terrible temper, after all, and though it rarely erupted, when it did it frightened me and anyone near its epicenter. It was the only crack, but a disturbing one, in the o… ▶358Thought
Kay Redfield JamisonTumultuouness,if coupled to discipline and cool mind,is not such a bad sort of thing.That unless one wants to live a stunningly boring life,one ought to terms with one`s darker si… ▶3710LifeThought
Kay Redfield JamisonI am tired of hiding, tired of misspent and knotted energies, tired of the hypocrisy, and tired of acting as though I have something to hide. ✨ Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). … ▶293Thought
Kay Redfield JamisonWho would not want an illness that has among its symptoms elevated and expansive mood, inflated self-esteem, abundance of energy, less need for sleep, intensified sexuality, and- … ▶261Thought
Kay Redfield JamisonI look back over my shoulder and feel the presence of an intense young girl and then a volatile and disturbed young woman, both with high dreams and restless, romantic aspirations… ▶295ReflectionThought
Kay Redfield JamisonI wish I could explain it so someone could understand it. I'm afraid it's something I can't put into words. There's just this heavy, overwhelming despair - dreading everything. Dr… ▶307DeathLifeReading
Kay Redfield JamisonI remember sitting in his office a hundred times during those grim months and each time thinking, What on earth can he say that will make me feel better or keep me alive? Well, th… ▶319HumorLifeLove
Kay Redfield JamisonI have often asked myself whether, given the choice, I would choose to have manic-depressive illness. If lithium were not available to me, or didn't work for me, the answer would … ▶276Thought
Kay Redfield JamisonLove, like life, is much stranger and far more complicated than one is brought up to believe. ✨ Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness, … ▶254LifeLoveThought
Kay Redfield JamisonThe 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. 221HopeThought
Kay Redfield JamisonSuicide is not a blot on anyone’s name; it is a tragedy265Time
Kay Redfield JamisonI am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that was strangely heartening. ✨ Kay Redfield Jamison (2011… ▶255LoveThought
Kay Redfield JamisonSomehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were. ✨ Kay Redfield Jamison (2014).… ▶299HumanityPhilosophyThought
