I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about…

Kay Redfield Jamison
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I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice between seeing a psychiatrist or buying a horse. Since almost everyone I knew was seeing a psychiatrist, and since I had an absolute belief that I should be able to handle my own problems, I naturally bought a horse. ✨ Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness, p.39, Pan Macmillan
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