I had a terrible temper, after all, and though it rarely erupted, when…

Kay Redfield Jamison
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I 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 otherwise vacuum-sealed casing of my behavior. ✨ Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness, p.20, Pan Macmillan
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